{ Craftiness }

Little star clips

Completly off topic from teaching. I have been craving crafts recently..really badly. Obviously Pinterest is the place to go to find great inspiration and I got in the mood to create bows, clips and even a little hair band.

Bow clip (modeled by my kitten :))

Hairband with a felt flower

 So after I had babbled in hair accessories and trying to crochet but failing miserably I started baking. Now I love baking but the oven that Mr W and I have in our rented place is rubbish so I had completly given up for the last year. Then I created a recipe for a autumn cinamon apple bake and lone behold my wee oven coped! :)

 

Yummy!! Comment for recipe :)
What crafts have you got on the go at the moment?

{ Paris }

So I have been on my half term break and took a little vaccation with the lovely Mr W and headed to Paris! It was my first time in France and to say I was excited would have been a little bit of an understatement ha. 

I hold an art club on Tuesday after school for year 1 and 2 kiddos and the last thing we made was these really cute Eiffle Tower paintings...just to keep the excitement going! We only have half an hour for this club so we did well but ours didn't turn out as cute as Cassie's.

Now that i've been to gay Paris, I think I would change this next time I do them and add some lights along the actual structure. Could also possibly do them on black card and create the tower in a golden colour..just to be a little more realistic :)

Hope you have had a lovely rest and are ready to see lots of smiley faces tomorrow morning!

{ break }

I'm so sorry I've been MIA. I wanted to focus on my class and concentrate on bringing their behaviour back to my expectations. I am glad to say we are getting there :-). 

The last few weeks have been a bit crazy because we have had more open days, trying to get the school, classrooms and children prepared for strangers walking about and looking into all the nooks and crannies. That also went well! 

It is half term for two weeks now, so I will be back after that to share what we have been getting up to. :-) have a great break everyone! 

{ The rainy days }

So life in year one can offer lots of rainbows and happy days, moments and events. There can also be rainy days where everything just piles ontop of you, hence my blog name. 

I think it is so important to talk about those rainy days as well as the lovely sunshiny rainbow days because you learn and you grow from those days. 

This week was hard. 

Really damn hard. 

As individuals my class are lovely. As a group we are working on it. When they are having a bad day it really snowballs and it just keeps getting worse and worse. 

Wednesday was my breaking point this week and it wasn't the kiddos fault. We were trying to complete our maths lesson, after lunch, with no help. It wasn't my fault either. There is a huge timetabling error. I ended up getting really annoyed at the kids and trying to get them to be quiet and just get on with it, but there wasn't enough support. I (unfortunately) cannot morph into multiple different people to help them cope and learn effectively. So we ended up back on the carpet sitting in a circle so that I could go to each child and help and move to the next person and then go around again and again. I am lucky because my (new) headteacher is very supportive and is now sorting out extra support for my class. Not for me, but for the children. Thank goodness for teaching assistants is all I can say and I have the best TA in the whole wide world! :)

Thursday was much better. I have learnt (I'm a slow learner) that I have a class, who at the moment need to be controlled in every aspect or their learning goes out the window. I have changed my approach to them and how I teach to get the best from them. Hopefully by Christmas I can loosen the reins a little and give them a little more wiggle room. At least that is the idea. 

Hope you have all had better weeks. Feel free to rant about your week in the comments. I have sympathy. :)