Day 354 - Resolution?

Now as it is in the above photo, anyone might think that they had walked into Peta's classroom instead of mine! I have never had a classroom looking so clean and having all the cupboard space really did help. So did vacuuming and cleaning years of dirt off various items! Dare I make it one of my resolutions to have a tidy classroom in 2012?

Day 350 - Work in Progress

So now all of my stuff has moved from the front of my classroom to the hallway outside my new classroom. My 'new' classroom is the one I moved out of at the end of 2010! On a positive note, at that point I had been on maternity leave and while I was gone it was refurbished. After being in a classroom at the older end of the school for the first time, I have to say it will be pretty good to move into one with nice clean cupboards and carpet. My belongings will sit out here on the floor over the weekend, so here's to hoping for no rain or flooded carpets!

Day 311 - Cocoons Appear Over the Weekend!

1M was very excited to find 10 yellow silk cocoons in our little silkworm community this morning! They really are interesting little creatures, who have grown very fat over the last week or so, obviously due to their constant devouring of mulberry leaves!

Day 309 - Primary School Memories

Today we went along to the 50th Anniversary Fete at my old primary school, Marayong Heights PS. Although I was a little disappointed with the amount of memorabilia on display (I think a lot of things may have once been lost in a fire) I did get a little laugh to see an edition of "Classroom Capers" which my year 6 class began. I don't think it lasted long (I actually think we only published 2 or 3 times in 1987) but I do remember being the advice columnist 'Eddie' and typing up the page on Mum's daisy wheel electric typewriter!

Day 118 - The Calm Before the Storm

Well my classroom is slowly coming together, thanks to a bit of time sorting out things in the last few days of the holidays. This photo is from before the kids arrived back... hence the title of this post.