Weird week!
Well this week was an odd one and no mistake!
Monday - start of rehearsals for the Christmas assembly. Which is turning into a performance. Which lead to me playing the guitar and singing for 3 hours, more or less. How accessible was this for the ASDer's? Well, it's interesting. One of the aspie children has a good reading part. One is acting, and doing it jolly finely. The others are in my class and are singing. The other 3 children at the other end are shepherds. This could be very, very interesting on the day, as we won't be in the school hall, we'll be in church, we won't be in exactly the same places, we'll be in slightly more room, the acoustics will be different and so on. We'll see.
My 2 stayed for some of the rehearsals, but had difficulty sitting still for 3 hours (funnily enough!)
Tuesday - PPA in the afternoon. And I didn't teach in the morning, but I can't remember why.
Wednesday - I was monitoring my subject in the morning, except I wasn't as the person I was supposed to be monitoring wasn't able to teach the subject in the time I had, and besides, I was helping to sort out the mouse problem. Yep. I have furry visitors. And, the cheeky things have ignored the biscuits in my desk (essential for team meetings) and nibbled my lovely feelings stamps which I got from somewhere fabulous last year. Children can use them to stamp their emotions on paper when they can't explain them. My T.A's and I discussed that we at least knew how the mouse was feeling. He was not confused, not angry, not sad, but neither was he happy or excited. Mouse was sorry. That was the one he had nibbled all the way around.
However, as the day progressed I got poorlier and poorlier and went home in the afternoon. Poorly ill sick. Man flu. I was in such a state by the end of the evening that my OH phoned my Deputy Head to say I wouldn't be there.
Thursday - On the sofa all day, having my brain melted by the likes of Maury, America's Next Top Model, Top Gear (which was good) and learning how to make the perfect sponge cake from Rachel's Favourite Foods. Oh and some Rick Stein sea food stuff. The children went on a trip. That is another post though.
Friday - Went back to school, as I felt better. BIG mistake as by 1.30 pm I was writing on the board for my children to read as I had no voice. NONE. Which is where I am at now. No voice.
If it's like this at the end of tomorrow, Sunday, then my OH will be phoning to say I'm not in. Last time I had this (in Feb) it was 5 days. But this is not the time to do this. This is Christmas term, performances await, I have to teach some songs and so on. And besides, this is the one week of the year that I can ignore the timetable and we can have some FUN!
I refuse to be ill!
Monday - start of rehearsals for the Christmas assembly. Which is turning into a performance. Which lead to me playing the guitar and singing for 3 hours, more or less. How accessible was this for the ASDer's? Well, it's interesting. One of the aspie children has a good reading part. One is acting, and doing it jolly finely. The others are in my class and are singing. The other 3 children at the other end are shepherds. This could be very, very interesting on the day, as we won't be in the school hall, we'll be in church, we won't be in exactly the same places, we'll be in slightly more room, the acoustics will be different and so on. We'll see.
My 2 stayed for some of the rehearsals, but had difficulty sitting still for 3 hours (funnily enough!)
Tuesday - PPA in the afternoon. And I didn't teach in the morning, but I can't remember why.
Wednesday - I was monitoring my subject in the morning, except I wasn't as the person I was supposed to be monitoring wasn't able to teach the subject in the time I had, and besides, I was helping to sort out the mouse problem. Yep. I have furry visitors. And, the cheeky things have ignored the biscuits in my desk (essential for team meetings) and nibbled my lovely feelings stamps which I got from somewhere fabulous last year. Children can use them to stamp their emotions on paper when they can't explain them. My T.A's and I discussed that we at least knew how the mouse was feeling. He was not confused, not angry, not sad, but neither was he happy or excited. Mouse was sorry. That was the one he had nibbled all the way around.
However, as the day progressed I got poorlier and poorlier and went home in the afternoon. Poorly ill sick. Man flu. I was in such a state by the end of the evening that my OH phoned my Deputy Head to say I wouldn't be there.
Thursday - On the sofa all day, having my brain melted by the likes of Maury, America's Next Top Model, Top Gear (which was good) and learning how to make the perfect sponge cake from Rachel's Favourite Foods. Oh and some Rick Stein sea food stuff. The children went on a trip. That is another post though.
Friday - Went back to school, as I felt better. BIG mistake as by 1.30 pm I was writing on the board for my children to read as I had no voice. NONE. Which is where I am at now. No voice.
If it's like this at the end of tomorrow, Sunday, then my OH will be phoning to say I'm not in. Last time I had this (in Feb) it was 5 days. But this is not the time to do this. This is Christmas term, performances await, I have to teach some songs and so on. And besides, this is the one week of the year that I can ignore the timetable and we can have some FUN!
I refuse to be ill!
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