Christmas!!!!!!!!!

Well, I've been through a few weeks of doubting myself and come out the other side as happy as I can be! Christmas at school has helped - I'm in my element - and the lack of a proper timetiable for the last week and a half means I haven't been planning anywhere near as much. I feel confident and happy and excited again now. Thank God!
It was last day of school today, and over christmas I have to do a medium term plan for yr 4 history and I'll be teaching the first 2 weeks of literacy so I need to roughly plan those - and detail plan the first week, but that'll be fine.
It's a bit worrying changing class - just as you get used to one class I have to move up to another - 2 year groups above. I look forward to it, since I think I'd rather teach yr 4 or 5 anyway, and there are less than 20 children with no SEN, which will be lovely. I think I'll enjoy the level of work more, and the fact they need fewer concrete resources - yr 2 maths is all multicubes, number grids, number cards, rulers - and that's just one lesson! It takes ages to organise just the resources. And last term I was differentiating 4 ways - this yr it's just the main class and some extension work for the G&T's! Heaven.
Yep, pretty happy.
I even got to go to my own son's school play - I asked at the beginning of the course and my lovely mentor said she'd see what she could do - and in the end our TA covered for me while I went off early for the afternoon. It's always worth asking (in a deferential, 'I know it might not be possible' kind of way!)