The past week has been CRAZY. Fixtures every day this week, on top of parents' evening after school each night, a visit to the Norfolk County Music Festival, and a Saturday morning open day. Needless to say, I've been exhausted. Isn't it always the way that everything comes at once?
On top of all of the things I mentioned, it was World Book Day. We had ours a day late, due to aforementioned visit to the Norfolk Festival (the kids we awesome, by the way), so on Friday, I turned up to school in full on Native American costume.
If you follow me on twitter, you may have seen that my petrol light decided to flash on the way to school.Typical. I had to quickly stop at Sainsbury's to fill up. In my costume. Marvellous.
We have recently read 'The Indian in the Cupboard' in my class, so I went dressed as the female character, Twin Stars, although I accepted Pocahontas, Tiger Lily etc...I was an Indian, that was enough!
It's always fun to see how the kids turn up on the day. This year we had lots of Dorothy costumes, the obligatory Harry Potters and a ton of Disney Princesses in the younger classes. Surprisingly, there were a large number of ancient Egyptians, Cleopatra and a Medusa (I was so jealous of her costume) which makes me smile; their lessons have clearly influenced them there!
Adding to the ancient Egypt theme, my class finally finished the Tutankhamun inspired death masks that they have been working on since January. It was a long way process, but they worked so hard to get them right. I was so chuffed with they turned out. For a group of 7 & 8 year old kids, I think they did a great job!
I don't talk too much about my job online (for obvious reasons) but it's nice to recognise some of the positives in amongst the stress and heavy workload. I'm now looking forward to a less frantic week ahead (fingers crossed).
Those death masks are awesome! We're doing Egyptians this year (year 4) and we're making papyrus and painting Egyptian-inspired paintings on them.
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Oh, this post is so cute! i am nursery nurse so its almost being a teacher :) I love all the dressing up stuff and next week we've got pajama party - we're all so excited :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute outfit!!! I love dress-up days at school - and I get costume-envy too. We celebrated German 'Karnival' a few weeks ago. I quite liked my Little Red Riding Hood costume, but was insanely jealous of a Year 2 girl's pixie costume! :-)
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Those masks look amazing! You're right though; it's nice to recognise the positives about teaching in amongst our ridiculous mark loads! I have over 100 higher essays waiting for me this weekend... Why did we think teaching was a good idea again?! I LOVE the thought of you stopping for petrol in that costume, haha! Good effort. Xxx
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ReplyDeleteGreat outfit! Love the fact you had to fill the car up, wonder what the other customers were thinking!
ReplyDeleteThose masks are fab too, good day all round by the looks of it :)
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I was the wheres Wally girl this year. My favourite costume in my class was the thin controller and the grufollo
ReplyDeleteThose masks are fantastic!
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oh wow! u used to love doing the egyptians at school. takes me back!! xx
ReplyDeleteOh no, thats so funny you had to fill the car up in your costume! It's such a good costume - wish we got to dress up in work. That is such a great project for your class, can I come join in? :)
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