I hope that Miss Ward would be proud of me.

I am about to sit down and stick some of the drawings that the year one students did on the theme of Walking Through the Jungle onto some background pictures that I did. The kids already did some themselves in class, but they did not manage to finish it all. It was all quite complicated to organise but my head has been popping into all my classes so that helped as I have 6 background pictures and so needed 6 groups each with a girl in them and then for them to copy what I had written on them and colour in an animal on each. Yesterday I sat and cut up the sweet papers I have been picking up on the way to school each day which I am going to get the kids to stick on a picture of Humpty Dumpty tomorrow.  All the joys of being a primary teacher.

It was what I always wanted to be, the other thing that I originally wanted to be was a gym teacher (when I was 11) so today all these things came together. I am going to teach the children a Scottish type dance to perform to the parents.  I am allowed to do this because dance is one of the topics taught at school and think of all the language, stretches, biceps, hips etc.  So today I took them through a top to toe body stretch and even some ballet positions and then we started the dance. They enjoyed it, I definitely enjoyed it. . I have been haunted all my life by the fact that my dance teacher never put me in for an exam, and never knew why, was I crap or just she thought I would not cope with the exam, but she then always put me up into the next grade class.    She was a dumpy woman, did not dance at all, did not look like a dancer even, was I guess about the age I am now or a bit older, but I loved going to dance school so I hope I did her proud.