19-06-2012

=Week 10= I just had Kasey Armstrong walk in and give me a picture of a bouquet of roses before school - "I made this for you Miss Cuffe". What a cutie! It'll often happen that we have students make us things in class because they look up and think "I don't want to keep this I'll give it to my teacher" but when they make a special effort to make you something from home it's lovely! Warms my heart!

We are off to Geelong again with both aerobics teams this Saturday and I'm pretty excited! Wild Card finals - 1 out of our section gets through to State Finals which is in the afternoon. I'm in two minds - one: I'm hoping we get through because the girls really deserve it after all of their hard work! Two: If they get through I'm going to be getting up at 4am to get there and will not be arriving home until 8pm ish. Exhaustion! We've been practising every day as per usual and Thursdays after school since the last competition and the girls are counting down the seconds to be on stage again - I love how much confidence they've gained from this program and it makes it all worthwhile after all of the extra time and effort I've put in to get it up and running! I'm really hoping that we have enough students interested over the years that I'm here because I've just loved every second - both the ups and the downs!



This is the last week of specialist classes and the kids all groan at me when I tell them that in class - makes me feel pretty good as I take two thirds of them! The grade 5/6's have been making clay models and I think it's gone really well! I had to get used to the kiln and how to operate it but now that I have it's been a great project! One thing the kids really did not listen to was how important it is to create a solid animal with no air bubbles inside! So many animals exploded in the kiln as there were so many air bubbles! So many disappointed faces when I explained how some people who did not listen to instruction had actually ruined their peers work as well... Next time I do clay I'll be making sure that I start it at the beginning of the term and give the students a firm timeline (now that I know how long it takes to fire them all) so they can plan their time more effectively. This was a learning process for the kids as well as myself so it worked pretty well considering. Fiona also said how bad some of them looked in comparison to what she'd expect them to be able to do after last year so I'll be raising my expectations considerably for the other classes.