Day 212 - Education Week

Today saw the beginning of Education Week. Our kids had the opportunity to visit a science fair held by the local high school in our hall. Despite a long queue, my class really enjoyed themselves and when  I spotted this chemistry experiment, I thought the colours would make a great picture! The kids saw all sorts of things like baby chicks, lizards and leaf insects, physics and paper gliders and other hands on type science that I wish we were able to do more of!

Day 114 - Back to the Grindstone

Well the April holidays are well and truly over and I think this really hit me when I looked in my diary for the week! Only Monday and every day has notes and appointments already. At this point, Saturday and Sunday look to be free and I think I will be very much looking forward to those two days!

Day 74 - 2M's Birthday Layer Cakes

2M has been doing a bit of work on the topic of celebrations this term and what better way to celebrate than with birthday cake! Here are a small selection of some of the decadent birthday layer cakes that 2M created last week, in the foyer at school!

Day 66 - Photo Day

I think when we get our school photos back then I may swap my picture for the above one, which really isn't very exciting. After a morning of running late, with an extra nappy change thrown in that was a bit unexpected, followed by Dale's missing keys, I jumped in the car knowing that I would be late. Staff photos were at 8.45! Finally I got to school, no parking spaces out in the street, none left in the staff car park which wouldn't have resulted in my standing in mud up to my ankles, I had to drive around the corner to the small carpark at the sports field. I finally got into the school hall as the photographer snapped the last picture. He kindly took another, so that I could be in it :)

Day 54 - The Chair of Nails

Our kids had their second 'incursion' today, which was a visit from Questacon. Any sort of change to routine does tend to send school kids a little loopy, so you can imagine what having an African Drumming session on Tuesday, followed by Questacon visit on Thursday has left them like. Oh, perhaps add in a bit of rain to top that off! With a bit of luck I somehow got out of sitting on the chair of nails, during the show, my excuse being that my dress was made of a filmy kind of fabric. Lucky Kylie had on jeans and so she braved it to the children's delight. Check out the Questacon guy's face in the photo... obviously an amazing feat - well done Kylie!

Day 50 - A Love of Reading

My photo today is courtesy of a photo competition Jenna is entering at school, which I think is being run by the school librarian. From what I could gather, the theme was families and a love of reading, so Jenna set up the shot today and this is one that I snapped of her, Dale and Henry reading together. I don't think Henry was 100% sure of his role here, as he did roll away a couple of times, but he did have many giggles! Jenna is a great reader and I hope that Henry will be too some day - the signs are very good so far. 

Day 27 - Tell Me it isn't Over?

I think it every time, but I really could have gotten so much more done if I had just had one more week! It was back to school for NSW teachers today and on the menu for us, was mostly CPR and First Aid. It was a little creepy to walk back into the library after morning tea to find these half bodies lying around everywhere, but I guess practice makes perfect. I just hope that I only ever need to do this in a practice situation.

After one day, as most people know, it pretty soon feels like you never left. Here we go again!