What a lovely class I have. It usually takes me half a term to bond with them but this year it has been quicker. It is an unusual year group as 15 of them have August birthdays making them a very young year. Also there are 28 boys and only 12 girls!
We are still short staffed as Alex has taken half a terms leave to look after her father. I have had to build up a totally new team. Carole, Kelly and I have bonded well and are enjoying working together. The children are very funny and we often roll about laughing. Here are a couple of incidents that have happened this week.
Carole came into work last Monday looking very glamorous with her new haircut. Feeling good about herself she set about work. As the children started to arrive in the classroom young "G" (a hyperactive little boy) took one look at her and said, “Good morning Mrs Syrett….. I see you have your funny hair on today!”
During our Topic lesson we were talking about emotions. The children were going to have to draw one picture that makes them happy and one picture that makes them sad. I did an example and talked about why my pictures made me feel happy and sad. The happy picture was of me lying in a sunbed reading a book with the sun shining. The sad picture was of Laurence lying in hospital in stripy pyjamas with a drip going into his arm. I explained to the children that it was medicine. They then went off to draw their pictures. During playtime one thoughtful little boy tapped Kelly on the arm and said, “I think you need to tell Mrs Harris that it is not medicine that is going into Mr Harris’ arm…….it is an electric current!”