One of the areas of life that gives both Rebecca and I much joy is the classroom. We thought that we might have some opportunity this year, but didn't know how that might work out. It has, we are going into the Kings School (the school run by Basingstoke Community Churches) to work with small literacy groups from y3 to y5. This happens to be the ages that I taught at Ox Bow so wonderful memories are being conjured consistently whilst working with these lads and lassess. Today some of what Rebecca did with a group was rhyming, again straight out of her book of past experience:) We each have 3 groups in the morning, I have one of 3, then a group of 8 then another of 6. The 8 is like my own little classroom for a 1/2 hour, oh what fun, today we continued on writing a story based on the story starters from last week. To those of you who are educators you will probably understand that, if you're not you may not care much, but I do get a charge out of it. Rebecca has a group of 2, 3 and 4, it is much like when she used to send small groups out to the para, now we are the people who the small group goes and finds. No it's not heavy duty, but it's like a large Slurpee on a sweltering day. It doesn't last that long, but it is very refreshing and you look forward to the next one. So next Thursday should be a blast, as we continue writing stories, working with rhyming words, a short drama about 4 guys on a ship and creating different types of sentences, the more life changes the more it stays the same.
Mr. and Mrs. Robinson
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