Fell asleep with my 4 year old son last night, and woke at 3:30 ready for work & thinking plans for day. Nodded off again to awake overtired at 8, with those excellent ideas shot!
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Stiff back a legacy of sleeping scrunched up against the side of a hard bed without a pillow, which made running around the playground on a very windy morning somewhat onerous. Creak creak. Red noses prevalent, as winter clearly closing in. Despite being collectively cute, the Green class girls all want picking up all the time, competitively so, noisily and relentlessly. Decided I was not going to do today, cue pouts and choruses of 'not fair'.
As today is the last Friday of the month, library detail. Each child borrows a book to take home. Remarkable number of these children's books feature body functions of animals or people which I think would not feature in English books. Prudery or prudence? Personally, would rather not read a book to kids (or myself!) starring a dog dropping unwanted bombs everywhere.
I gave 'What do u want 4 Xmas' song a run out, and it met mild amusement & participation
K-Sensei better at this than one or two others, and she does keep things under control. When she is paying attention. The climbing stuff in her 'not paying attention time' another issue - which I solved today by making
angels to avoid arsegroping. There was great excitement at cleaning...dirty rags
to run up & down the wooden floors on all-fours. I do not have a problem with children cleaning up after themselves - think they must, and appreciate bigger jobs that are keeping the whole building clean - but I do not think they should have to do this instead of the school being properly cleaned regularly. There is no such job as 'caretaker' in schools here.
Noticed one or two
boys trying to copy my footballing style, others keeping the ball. Frustrating when one hoofs
if as far as possible in the opposite direction to the game everyone else is enjoying, folks drift off as interest wanes or falling leaves (pre-swept up!) attact their attention. Another greedy dribbler never passes but tries to
shoot very hard from point blank; another couple of lads always pick the ball up and claim to own it. Whinge of the day!
This marks 3 months; half way there?
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