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that's MISS KELLY to you thanks!

Well today I spent THE whole day at the school. Here's the short version:

• 8.20am-9.25am -->Breakfast Program
• 9.30am-11am-->Class helper
• 11am-11.30am-->Canteen
• 11.30am-12.30pm-->Assembly
• 12.45pm-1.30pm-->Canteen
• 1.35pm-2.10pm-->Class teacher
• 2.10pm-3.05pm-->Father's day picture laminator

You read that second last one right. Zoe's teacher went home REALLY sick at morning recess which left one teacher with 3 classes (one teacher on release time and the other one at the 'first steps' preschool class) after lunch. So I took Zoe's class while they finished off their father's day class and send them when they'd finished back to the poor bloke who had the other two grades....me...in charge of a whole class. For about 20 mins anyway! They slowly but surely all headed of to the congregation two classes down. It was awesome. The principal popped in to check on us and was cool, the other teacher was cool with it, the kids were cool with, and I was more than cool with it! Kinda scary though. But the kids all know me, I've spent enough time in the class for them to be comfortable with me, to know all their names and for a certain level of authority to be there. When all else fails, I just threaten the kids with the idea that if they muck up I get into trouble and amazingly they come good! I joke around and have a lot of fun with them being silly and stuff so when I get serious, they tend to take me seriously. For some reason, one of the kids responds really well to me, and he usually gets into the worst trouble. I think he's ADHD - I know that he went of with the principal at one stage to have some medication. But we seem to have some kind of connection and all it takes is for me to ask him to do something and he smiles and happily obliges. Not that he's not like that at all with other people, but I've not once had the problems with him that I've seen him dish out to others. Feels good. Then again it could just be because I give him food in the mornings and he may think that if he upsets me I won't :) I prefer to think we just click.

Remember that bribing little chat I was going to have with Zoe's teacher? Well I did. And it worked. Zoe got a merit award today for "Completing the reading challenge and excellent reading" Which means she is now only 3 points from gold. So far only 4 have been awarded in the whole school. At the very very latest she'll get it in week 10 once she receives the 5 point one for good behaviour. There is no way on god's green earth will she EVER receive an incident slip while she thinks rules are more important than food!! She's almost anally retentive about them. Gets upset when someone else breaks the rules. But anyway, I'm still very very proud of her, and will continue to brag for each and every one of these little achievements Get used to it!

All in all I had a pleasant day. More than pleasant in fact. I think I should take Evan's suggestion and go start talking to some uni's about courses....lock your kids up people, Miss Kelly may just be on the way to a school near you!