It’s Friday!
But not just any Friday…
For plenty of individuals, it is a Friday we have been crawling towards… the end of the existing term!
The kids are excited. It means a week (or two for some!) off and away from school! Yes there may be homework, but the pressure of getting up and going in is not there!
And us teachers…well, when I say we crawl, I mean it!
This first half term of the academic year is always tough. Settling in new pupils, getting to know them. setting boundaries and rules, assessing… it is a tough slog.
I know I personally have found this last term extremely exhausting, with my new responsibilities, and a lot more children to get to know. Names are never a problem for me, I have learned 70 new ones so far, and it looks likely that I need to learn another 30, if only for a short while, next term! But, the downside of having so many children to be responsible for, I don’t feel I really ‘know’ them yet.
Still, I have made it through this term, with no days of complete meltdowns, (well, not mine, some of the kids however have had a few!) and look forward to a few special days during my week off.
My only worry… when we come back from the break, all the progress we have made with our littlest ones will have been forgotten (believe me, it doesn’t take much for young children to forget what they were doing before!) and so the cycle will continue to roll, with us having to re-settle them, but hopefully only for a few days before they remember what Nursery and School is all about!
So, I am off to start my last day (for a week at least) and then enjoy a week of relative freedom!
Enjoy your Friday Peeps!!!!
But I Smile Anyway... 
Oct 21, 2017 @ 12:47:22
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 22:53:22
Enjoy your “relative freedom”. Getting back is harder.
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 23:18:00
I know!!! Thank you! Hope you’re well!!!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 23:21:27
Just trying to get back. Writing after a month and half ( hopefully will be completed in a few minutes). getting back is not easy.
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 00:04:31
It’s not easy to stay away, for me!!
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 00:32:39
Good for you. I think the month long vacation took me three weeks to come out of it.
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 00:50:22
Sometimes a blog detox is a good thing… I guess!
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 00:55:25
I hope so.
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 23:49:04
Here is the shortlink for the first post after my return : http://wp.me/p73yZZ-3EL
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 00:05:05
I’ve just been over actually!
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 00:38:54
Where did you visit?
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 00:50:43
Your blog!
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 00:56:21
☺☺☺I thought you went on a trip too.
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 07:49:20
I’d love to go on one… alas not yet!
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 16:38:28
All in their own good time.
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 16:39:08
😀
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 21:38:13
Well done Ritu! You maaaaade it!
I hope you have a truly relaxing week and that the little’uns remember some of what you taught them when they come back!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 21:41:49
Thank you so much Josy!!!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 18:42:38
I am at mid-term at the university. I am having them turn in their 6 page papers next Wed., and that will mark the end of the prescribed curriculum, with the rest of the semester (until the second week in Dec.) on “real-world”, relevant writing. I have introduced my milliniels to the joys of bogging and am hoping some will exist after the course ends and continue to my/their contribution to the blogging world.
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 19:21:36
Enjoy!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 18:38:01
Enjoy the well-deserved break, sis!!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 19:19:57
Thanks sis xxx
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 19:27:44
😘
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 14:03:50
Happy end of term Sister!!! Celebrate good times!!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 16:38:40
I shall Brother!!!!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 16:58:48
🥂🎉
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 14:03:33
Enjoy the break, Ritu!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 16:38:12
I’ll try Jennie thank you!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 18:51:55
😀
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 13:36:46
your already.on a week vacation good for you
Hope all the rest is ok
As Sheldon Always
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 16:37:48
Finally! Thanks Sheldon 😁 hope you’re well
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 11:01:13
Woohoo! Congratulations for making it. 🙂
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 12:19:53
Yay!!! Thank you!!!!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 09:06:42
Enjoy your Friday too Ritu!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 12:16:09
Thank you!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:33:12
Take time for you as well as time with your family. You’ve earned some me-time! 🌸
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:36:09
Thank you!! Hope to get some proper chill time!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:28:06
Well you made it Hun, time for you now enjoy 😁🌹🌹🌹🌹
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:31:32
Lol indeed sis!!! Thank you!! 😍😍
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:26:14
Finish the book.
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:29:47
She did say no pressure 😱….. On reflection she could do some of the book though 😉
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:31:54
I am hoping to do some!!!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:32:37
I think we all guessed that Sis🌹🌹
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:33:00
😂😂
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:33:17
😉🤗
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 08:15:28
I’m a harsh friend…
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 08:27:47
You and Sacha both!
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 08:28:10
Now she’s professionally cruel!!
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 09:20:55
It’s how she’s progressively got so good at what she does!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:31:05
I’ll try His Geoffleship!
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Oct 21, 2017 @ 08:14:53
Well done
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:20:53
I think a ‘yay!’ is required here.
Yay!
G:)
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:30:35
A big YAY!!!!!!!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:20:19
Hope today goes quickly for you sis then you can have your well deserved break xx
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:30:25
Thank you dear sis!!!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 07:39:30
Wish you a wonderful day and an even better time off, Ritu 🙂
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 07:40:44
Thank you so much Irene!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 07:36:01
Don’t even think about “re-settling” until it’s time to do it, Ritu. Have a wonderful time “off!”
xx,
mgh
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 07:39:42
Thank Madelyn! I aim to!!! I am even being a rebel and have decided not to ‘clean’ on a Friday tonight, as I usually do!!!
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 07:44:07
You GO girl. If they want it cleaned, let them do it themselves – lol.
xx,
mgh
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 07:45:49
Lol! I wouldn’t go that far.. the control freak in me won’t be able to let it go that far! But they will definitely be helping… and I am only putting it back a day or so lol!! But yeah! Tonight is all about ME! ( and the kids, they have a drum lesson!)
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 07:50:26
Sounds like a good night for a glass of wine in a hot bubble-bath by candlelight. Enjoy!
xx,
mgh
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Oct 20, 2017 @ 08:10:08
Here’s hoping!
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