Sunny.

Still sunny and warm but a bit more overcast at times. I've been teaching all day so the day has whizzed by. First thing was a quick rearrangement of our plans as we were one adult down in the Reception classes but that wasn't too much of a problem. We combined the classes at times so that I could teach them the chorus of a rain forest song and later they watched a DVD, literacy I think, so that we could hear some individual readers.

I needed to sort my class into hares and tortoises for sports' day so I took the children outside before play time and let them race in 5's. They each had a cone to run to and around but in one race 5 boys all decided to aim for the same cone. The result was that 2 of them bumped heads, lots of wailing and one boy coming up with a bump with a bruise.  We always have ice packs in the fridge because small children are forever bumping their heads. 3 little girls who had been fine all morning came up to me at lunchtime announcing that they had to go home as they 'had poorly tummies'. Nice try, I just said they were probably hungry and no they didn't need to go home.