funky hair day

Today at school Evies house is having its fundraiser (there are 4 houses in total and they each have their own fundraiser and hers is first), each house has their own charity.

It is funky hair day and they can come in in non uniform or home clothes as Evie calls them :)

It is £1 for non uniform and 20p to enter the funky hair competition (Evie has already said she doesnt want to do the competition but I have put 20p in her bag for it anyway) to enter you just have your photo taken doing a silly pose and there are 3 prizes for the funkiest hair for the infants and juniors :)

Evie wouldnt let me do her hair too funky so this is what we went for...

her full outfit

head shot

and the back

She has 4 bunches 2 at the front and 2 at the back and I wasnt allowed to plait them! :)

days of the week and symbols

Yesterday when I was helping in Evies class they were doing days of the week as their maths :)

first they sang the days of the week song (I cannot find the right version but it goes to the tune of the Adamms Family theme tune :))

the kids were then asked to stick the days on their work sheet in the correct order and were asked some questions such as

what day is outdoor PE?
what day is singing assembly?
what day is indoor PE?
which days do you not go to school?
which day is achievement assembly?
what day do they do computing?

At least I learnt what they get upto in class each week :)

I had to file away work they had done on symbols too Evies one had two on one for hairdressers and the other one was Barcelona Football Club!

I asked Evie later why she picked them and she said it was because they were on the whiteboard.

Phew I was worried that she was going to get into football :)

a new trick

This morning when I got into work my boss was in along with the electricians to do their 5 year electrics testing.

He had already unlocked the rooms that I needed and all I had to do was switch everything on.

The group then turned up...

...the children went into their room and the adults went into the theatre...

...a while later the organiser lady/ringleaders Mum came over to us to say that all of the chairs in the childrens room were wet and had we washed the chairs?

Knowing what the kids are like we went in there to see what had happened...

...indeed all of the chairs were wet (knowing that they were dry when I first went in the room) I had a look at the ceiling to make sure that there were no obvious wet marks where there may have been a water leak from upstairs and there hadnt.

She then said that it cant be that one of the kids had wet themselves as all of the seats were wet.

My boss then said to her that the kids had taken the drip tray from the watercooler and emptied it onto the chairs and looking at the watercooler the drip tray was full to the brim.

The Mum then asked her kids if either of them had done it and the youngest owned up and he apologised to my boss as I was sorting out the room for the next day.

I will have to see if they do it again next week...

Evie actually told me today that she had missed me so that was nice (mormally she says that she didnt) :)

rabkey

Yesterday I helped in Evies class again...

...I did some filing, this time it was what animals they are on the inside and outside :)

Evie said that she was a rabbit on the outside, because she likes to hop a lot (later on she said that she also likes carrots too which is another reason for being a rabbit), and on the inside she is a monkey because she likes to eat bananas and climb trees :) she eats bananas very occasionally but doesnt climb trees!

I also read with a couple of kids and stuck in some work in their maths books.

I also was tidying up the books that they have to bring home with them :)

So it was another good morning :)

to q or not to q too

As our new Sky+HD box had still not arrived I decided to call sky today to find out what was happening (in other words if they had sent it or not).

The guy I spoke to looked at our account and the upshot was that it hadnt been sent.  A supervisor was supposed to authorise payment going onto our account (the system wasnt working properly) but it never got authorised and I wasnt told despite a note on there saying to let me know it it didnt go through.

After me saying that I wasnt happy I was then put through to another team to see what they could do for me.

The new bloke said that they could do me a Q box for £20 (without the multiscreen subscription) and and would I be interested, so I double checked that it wouldnt cost us anything extra and he said that it wouldnt, so I said yes and he even said that they might me able to do something about our monthly subscription too.  They have reduced it down for 18 months :)

I did ask if I was getting this deal because I complained and the bloke told me that the cancellation team (whoa I didnt use the word cancel) can offer better prices for customers.  I dont like the idea of threatening to cancel just to get a better deal and as I didnt actually say I wanted to cancel but I did say that I wasnt happy I got a good deal anyway.

I just have to wait another month now for the Q box to be fitted :)

chuffins

On my way home from work this afternoon I popped into the supermarket to get James some bread rolls...

...I then saw the cheap reduced bakery items and looking for something that Evie might like too I saw some blueberry muffins :)

cheap blueberry muffins

Evie has already decided that she doesnt like them but Im sure she will change her mind come dessert time :)

maths and reading

Yesterday I helped out in Evies class again...

Before Miss B had even taken the register S was sick so she had to be taken to the school office with all of her stuff so her Mum could come and pick her up.

I had to file away some bits of work from Tuesday - it was special church items - I had a look at Evies one again and she drew a cross, a crucifix, a bible and a candle.

I also did some reading with 2 of the children I was supposed to do 3 but didnt have time in the end.

Then after playtime it was maths, and while the children were sitting on the floor with their whiteboards (writing down the answers) I was sharpening pencils, amd I glued some worksheets into some of the maths books.

Then the kids had to do their worksheets and I was asked to help S do her one, so we went through the sums together to work out the answers.

It was then time for me to go home, Evie got upset saying that she would miss me.

I told her to think of something funny that I do and that cheered her up so that was good.