Jitters

I have just finished my second day of organization. If anything it was even more hectic than yesterday! Great fun though. I got on really well with Kamila, my TA - we had a right old yack about life and other people and teaching and london and all sorts of things.

I decided to put up a self registration system. Basically on each of my 2 store cupboard doors, I put a strip of coloured wallpaper. above the red it says 'who is not here?' above the green it says "who is here?" . When the kids come in (tomorrow morning! yikes! and every morning after) they have to take their name from the red strip and stick it on the green strip. Rather ingenious and pretty, as the words above are made from shiney card! :)

I also found a complete set of alphabet cards to put up in the room and brightly coloured buckets with numbers on which I stuck on the windows around my maths table.

I found out, rather happily today, that not only do I apparently not have to do home visit's(where we teachers have to go and visit pupils and parents at their houses), but also that I will for a few days be able to fulfill both the popular belief that reception teachers get 'paid to play' and my own personal dream of entirely free flow learning in my classroom! because the children are so little when they come in, the first week or so is settling in period so I don't plan for them to do specific things but I have to observe them and relate that to the objectives in the guidance! Just like my training said I should! And I'm allowed to! - so many schools don't allow it - I am lucky!

I'm feeling slightly apprehensive about parents, apparently they are very challenging at this school so I have to get them on my side and be firm with them right from the start. This is the only bit of experience I feel totally lacking in! Tomorrow morning, parents get to come in with their children and I have to talk them through things like PE kit, Lunch boxes, drop off and collection time, money, toys from home, ways to help the children etc etc. so for 10mins I have to teach the parents and not the 4yr olds I'm used to....fingers crossed - here goes nothing!

On a happier note however, my lovely Bear has procured train tickets to London for the weekend! YAY!!!! so i not only get cuddle from mum and dad who return from greece on friday, but also the man in my life - all on the same day! Bring on the Friday I say!