Lovely Friday

My PPA time this afternoon was not spent on the work it should have been. Instead I ironed, sewed, then tried to work out what Cassie wanted. The whole time I was doing the ironing she stared at me. She even chirruped a couple of times. I worked it out in the end-she wanted some lap time! She has just recently-this week in fact, taken to sitting on my lap. She plays with my cotton, then settles down. I so enjoyed sitting watching the telly-first a really moving play about a friendship between a girl with special needs living away from her family, and an elderly lady estranged from her daughter. It did make me cry a couple of times. Then I watched a great episode of 'Murder She Wrote'. It was actually set in Cabot Cove so was very cheesily cosy and small town. I can't help liking it. I forgot until recently that it is Angela Lansbury who is in 'Bed Knobs and Broomsticks'. It was on recently. I forgot about the bits at the beginning when she first meets the children and is trying to fly on her broom. So funny! I was pondering this morning after so many conversations with parents, about the interests the children have got, both at home and at school. In a recent conference the main speaker told us about her daughter, who loved to sew anything she could get her hands on as a child, and is now a surgeon. Some of the kids in my class have such definite and strong interests and inclinations, that I could almost put money on some of their future careers. A. above may be a dancer.
A. will be something in fashion-she loves fairies, make up, clothes, Italian fashion TV(! her Mum told me), hair products, magazines and models. She puts together her outfits and is very particular about what she wears. C. loves digging, growing things, flowers, and all things garden-a future horticulturist? D. is dramatic with a capital D. He loves to act and laugh, but is distraught if something goes wrong. He would make a fantastic actor, or comedian.
B. loves to rescue people, usually as a firefighter. I know you can't predict these things but I would love to know what they all end up doing.

This week's story is The Three Pigs-we love the traditional tales! We are acting it out like mad, and next week I am going to get them to ask the wolf some searching questions! I found this little wooden wolf head in the market. It is flat, I am not sure what it is from but the woman i bought it from said it was Scandinavian.

The elephant loves his strawberry hat from Innocent smoothies-they all have cute little hats on at the moment to raise money for help the aged.

He also inspired a journal page.

The other thing I have done this evening is bake a fig and cinnamon cake. It is cooling at the moment, then I have to ice it. It is really late at night to be contemplating cake but I really want to try some! If it is any good I will share the recipe tomorrow.

Peter the plumber came round this evening, assessed the leak and will come back on Tuesday to fix it-or Monday if he can. He is the plumber that does all our jobs at school, and is a really nice man.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!