First Day, First School (part 2)

Well, that was a day and a half....

Woke up at 6:45 this morning which was lucky 'cause the school principal turned up at 6:50am... Richard was still in his sleeping attire, I'd managed to sneak into the disabled toilets a little earlier but after sleeping on the floor without any sort of mattress I was ready to get up. That's my own fault for leaving the mattress at Mum's place.

Kids started arriving bout 7:15, school bell went at 8:15 (again at 8:25) and most of the kids had turned up by then. Started puzzling at 9, Rich did the older kids and I took the primary school kids... realised about ten minutes before starting that I didn't have some of the stuff to work with - for example, we were placing counters on a 3x3 grid so each row/column/diagonal had one of each colour. So first, i had to get the kids to draw a grid. Which they did to varying degrees of success so it wasn't too bad but some of the kids struggled to put a counter on a severly narrow column... but the other workshop went well by all accounts.

Building bridges was great! They all managed to stay up and hold at least 200ml of water - a couple were solid as a rock and filled the truck all the way up! I think we had the boxes too close together so the bridges didn't collapse as often as i'd expected/wanted. Much more fun to destroy their hard work. Hey, we aren't here to bolster self-esteem, we're here to teach maths!

So after a hard day puzzling, we're off to Bachelor Area school. Hopefully i can buy a pillow (yes, i forgot that too, it's been one of those fortnights and now i'm finally catching up i'm realising everything i missed... d'oh)

Be good