A change in the weather.

It was like a wet Wednesday in Windermere most of the weekend so when I woke to the sun yesterday I headed off to work without my coat.

 Sitting down and finally getting access to the computer to do some prep though I noticed how windy it was outside and before I could even work out what that might signal the electricity went off.  After that it was very wild and windy all day. The electricity came on and went off, so that was one challenge to the day.   I have never known it so wild.

 I also had had a terrible night sleep on Sunday night so knew the day could be challenging on that score too.  But actually in the end it was lovely day workwise, I did a quiz with the year two to revise their year so far, and while there are some children really behind, overall more words are definitely embedded and one more student was showing signs of reading which really helps them in this instance as they can read the answer from the flashcard.  Then I taught year 0.  I have wanted for some time to make a robot with them, it is one of the words in the book (it comes from the word for  work in Russian) as I thought it could be a fun physical activity, but how to do it?  So I had primed my colleague their teacher and for once she fully participated and in fact made the success of the lesson possible. All the children were ready when I came in, I just had a box of resources (saved boxes, loo rolls, etc)  and after a little bit of taught work, she landed up helping a group paint and make the head while I focused on the body and legs.  The group of children I was working with were incredibly creative, we made legs out of loo papers so yes that may not have been possible in the UK ,and fingers out of the individualised containers for my vitamins.  Two children did not participate as much but I had decided not to worry if that happened just to make it a positive experience for all. Which is was.  I was too busy to get pictures while we were working, so this picture is from the end.

Luckily it was only snowing lightly when I went home though it was cold.  I crashed asleep and rather worryingly still feel very tired at the moment despite having only woken to eat something and chat on skype. Anyway it is sunny again this morning so let's hope it stays that way.