Also, when did cat appear? And what is name? Very happy to see him.

I find myself vastly cheered by the odd BANG! or BOOM!
tbf I teach Year 4…

Don’t they go well together? 🥰

I love your Shaun Tan collection! Here’s mine alongside a print by @edfinch.bsky.social

Beautiful flowers

Mother is hitting a walnut with her stick and shouting "SQUIRREL!"
No, Mother, that is a walnut.
"This year I am going to FOIL THE SQUIRREL!"
The plan is to strip the walnut tree before the squirrel can, and bury the nuts herself. The soil will 'condition' them and she can dig them up as needed.

Throw it away Toby.
He’s just chilling.
How do you keep getting away Toby?
He teleports!
Jump!
Is there still gravity?
Jump!
Jump!
JUMP!
Yeahhhh….
It’s Jareth.
He is so sussy.
Push him off!
Punch him in the face!
How did that happen? Was it all a dream?
It wasn’t a dream.
It wasn’t.
It wasn’t.

What’s the conference btw? I miss Oxford Reading & Writing Sprees SO much!

We’ve been doing weekly sessions on mini-drama this term - giving children a short script, 20 mins to prep and then a performance. Tangential, but it’s been fascinating as social development & awareness of each other’s physicality + audience awareness. Star Wars Shakespeare totally rocked recently.

@edfinch.bsky.social - did you mean sharing personal anecdotes, reading class books or story-telling off-script, as it were? Or all/any of the above?

4) It’s a warm & relational experience and we’re all trying to help children develop that sort of connection with books and other people.

1) Children can hear stories read with expression, which models a responsive relationship to text & audience.
2) It gives them confidence to read aloud themselves ^ modelling…
3) Their comments & observations encourage them to listen to each other & be alert to developing their own responses.
4) eep

Mother is being querulous about her glasses. She has sent me on a cascade of tiny side quests to collect them all. Then she rejected them 🤷‍♀️. “I’m sorry, darling. I feel like a collie - I have to …. HERD my glasses…”
😂

She is drinking Baileys, wearing an eyepatch and snarling at the cryptic crossword - “Yarrrrrgh! Too EASY!”
I love these weird in-betweeny days 😂

Ahhh Thursday Creative Writing Club, let me count the ways… 😂