As always, I had a great time in school yesterday. I've decided one of the best thing about wroking with kids is just chatting to them - although i realise as a 'real' teacher, I won't have time to do much of that! I had some great conversations with some of the children - they're a wonderful bunch.

When I first arrived, the class TA showerd me where the sugar paper was (ah, memories from my own primary days!) and I set to work cutting out petals, leaves, stalks, 'middles' (of flowers, that is) for the class to make and put on the wall in their new 'Garden Centre Home Corner'. After a bit of time on that, when some of the children seemed far more interested in what i was doing than what they were meant to be doing (can you blame them? I was working with sugar paper!!) we headed up to the Juniors again for ICT.

In ICT the class were drawing pictures of a) the great fire of london, and b) something in a garden centre, using a fab programme called 'Fresco'. Unfortunately, I didn't get to play around with it for long, and I was taking groups of about 8 children for 'library research'. Each group is learning about a section of the Easter story for their Easter Assemble in a couple of weeks, so I talked to them about researching in the library, and showed them how to find books on easter. It was quite cool actually - they children treated it like a treasure hunt, looking up the reference number of the theme/book they wanted, then rushing around the (rather small) library to find it. Unfortunately there were only about 2 half decent books on easter - but they now know (almost) everything about library research!

I only have 2 afternoons left volunteering in this school (unless I'm unemployed for the summer term, in which case... I'll be back!) and I'm really going to miss them. They're a wonderful bunch, and I've learnt a lot... and they've confirmed that I'm definitely making the right decision to go a-PGCE-ing...