January 6th

Back to school today for both of us. 

I'm on placement to hopefully start my course for becoming a teaching assistant next month. I'm in a class with year 1s and I love it. 

Aside from phonics.

I hate phonics. 

Phonics make no sense to me. I get how they're helpful with words like 'cat' 'hat' and 'dog' but when they become diagraphs 'ed' 'er' they start to make less sense.

 Let's take 'ou' in 'out' this is pronounced as 'ow' in 'should' it is pronounced as 'uh' in 'you' it's pronounced as 'oo' and in 'four' it's pronounced 'or'. This was enough to drive my logic loving brain utterly bananas!

What was wrong with the flash card approach that I and I'm sure most of you reading were brought up with? It's working with T. He can read and pronounce words my Yr1s would struggle with! 

I digress.

So I was at school this morning, then went for lunch with a friend. (See, resolutions getting knocked out of the park this week, although it negates my weight loss one) we came back to mine after for coffee, one of the bloody stupid dogs escaped and made a bid for freedom (I live within the grounds of a park, she spotted a dog walking past and went to plaaaaay) so after chasing her for bloody ages I picked her up caked in mud as she decided she wanted to have a good ol' roll in the mud seems as she was already in trouble. 

Carried her home. Cleaned up, went to pick T up from nursery. Came home chatted about his day which went like this:

*come in and sits on the couch, T throws himself at me*

"Mammy I just missed you so much today" *gives me a massive cuddle, my heart melts*

" aww baby I missed you too, what did you do today?"

"I counted raisins, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 and then I put an apron on and then I MADE A CAKE!"

"Ohh lovely, did you make one for mammy?"

"No! Just for children"

"Didn't your teacher have one?"

"No, Mammys and teachers don't like cake" (?!)

"We do like cake, we LOVE cake"

"No. You. Don't. Like. Cake"

"We do"

"YOU DONT"

"We do"

"You and me gonna fall out Mammy"

Oh good grief!