I'm back!

Well, I've only just caught my breath from a month of placement, which finished today. Unfortunately the paperwork will continue for a few days yet! It's most definately not easy juggling placement, a part time job, a new house (which I cleverly decided to move into the day before placement started), a (nearly) 2 year old, and an equally demanding fiance, but I've managed again! ... Well apart from the new house part, I've still got more boxes in my house than clothes! Moving house in the summer like I did the last time is definately wise!

I'm really going to miss my wee nursery kiddies, some other parts of my placement haven't been so enjoyable but that's another story. I've got to say though, it's really made me appreciate how much I love being in schools! Can't wait to get back into schools in the new year! I did really enjoy helping with the nursery's nativity play though, definately think that those kinds of things could be something I really get involved in when I'm a teacher.

Now I just need to my house sorted! Boxes everywhere, Christmas tree not up, and I've got 342973862834 Christmas and birthday presents to wrap (yeah, my son's birthday is on Christmas Eve, ouch).

Anyway, I will hopefully post again before then, but if not, I hope everyone has a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year! x x

Context Board

Here we go, blog post number two. Since this is meant to be an education-centred blog, I thought I would share my latest uni task :) So here's my context board from maths today.







As you can probably guess, it's a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme. It includes 5 pieces for each character which can be sorted or used for counting. There is also the 'picture puzzle' from the TV programme which the children can use to make the shapes. I made some flashcards, but these are more to guide the adult as the children obviously won't be able to read them, although there are colourful foam numbers which can be used alongside the flashcards. All the characters are movable aswell so multiple children can play with it at the same time, and so that they can also be used for positioning activites (ie. above, beside, in front of).

.... and it only took me about 12 hours!

What I learned this week ...

Ok I'm clearly not very good at this, considering I've just spent the last 10 minutes staring at the screen, so I'll keep this short and sweet.

This week I learned:

• You will always leave a nursery with paint on you, even when the paints were nowhere to be seen
• Haribo makes lectures more interesting
• 22 month olds can shout louder than any adult
• It takes three men in excess of 8 hours to put up two curtain poles

:)