Throwback Thursday with The Teaching Tribune

Linking up with The Teaching Tribune tonight for a 'true' throwback Thursday.

Oh my goodness, looking through old photos tonight to find one of me from Prep was, as it will forever be known, as "the night of the  bad hair cut flashbacks". Pretty scary as tonight I had a fringe cut back in at the hairdressers for the first time in forever and now I am regretting it due to me looking like I am back in 1990.

And thanks to the hubs for the endless ribbing about my glasses, fringes and other bad hair cuts. I love you too :)

So without further ado....

Around about-Five year old me at the zoo!

I've always been one of those kids that loved little kids. I either wanted to a teacher or a journalist but by the time I started Year 12 I knew teaching was for me.

Monday Meet Me

Thank goodness for Linkys or I would forget to blog! I'm linking up with The Teaching Tribune for Monday Meet-up :)

It is a gorgeous sunny (but freezing) day today. If I stay inside & read Northern Hemisphere blogs I can almost kid myself that it is Summer here too :)

I teach.... because it's awesome. Each poppet that I have taught has taught me more about life than what I could ever show them and that makes me feel like an incredibly lucky person to have been a part of their world & their wisdom. 

I have.... the travelling bug & a gorgeous, handsome, understanding, patient & amazing husband who let's me take off for weeks at a time to travel around the world... Honey if you're reading this, hint, hint!
I'm making do at the minute by walking around town, squinting & pretending it's Paris. 

I watch... a LOT of TV either online or from dvd box sets. My favourite is Buffy but The Gilmore Girls, Veronica Mars & HIMYM all get me through too. I own a lot more but I stopped listing them because I think I may have an addiction!

I listen...  to music everyday. I love that I drive to work now so that I can listen to my favourite radio station. Love the app for Triple j too. I'm addicted to this song by The Kooks at the minute. Catchy! & awesome.

I read... too much! Everyday, any spare chance I get. It drives the hubs insane but its a multi-tasking skill to read & eat, read & cook, read & "plan".

I do... need Art. It's probably a weird one but keeping surrounded by art keeps me sane when I'm stressed out. Another reason that I love Pinterest.
Wandering around the Art Gallery, any art gallery, for me is better than chocolate. But chocolate is pretty amazing too!

Currently June 2014

Yay, it's June! I'm linking up with Farley for this month's Currently.

~Listening~

So I'm being very sneaky & trying to be a great multi-tasker and write this while at a PD with Sir John Jones on the 8 Pillars of Transformation. It's brilliant & I should be completely concentrating on him but I just freaked out when I realised it's June and I had forgotten about Currently. Oops!
If you haven't read it, get a hold of his story The Magic Weaving business. Add it to your summer reading list :)

~ Loving ~

This PD! Being inspired is great, my to do list is already massive. I am also loving sleep, my body is craving it this late in the term. I've {sadly} been going to bed at 8.30 this week. Sad but I feel better.

~ Thinking & Wanting ~

I need to work out if I'm in the right place work wise & what I'm going to do next year.... 

~ Needing ~

My reports are half way written. I am determined to get them finished this weekend.

~ Winter Bucket List ~

I wish it was summer here but we are officially in Winter. Our break starts in 4 weeks and I'm really looking forward to it. We are road tripping to Canberra, I want to get a ton of sleep and I have a bunch of sewing projects to complete while staying warm, drinking tea and eating biscuits {cookies}.

Five for Friday 30th May

We have had another super busy week! Linking up with Doodle Bugs to share the love.

This week we have explored Shape by making Shape Pizzas.

We planted some super cute succulents at home in boxes made from pallets. Lucky my hubby is handy.

We had the 2015 Information Session last night. I stayed at work until it started at 7.30pm to finally get some displays up & some laminating done.

I've been enjoying the last days of Autumn with some great morning walks around the lake.

We rocked assembly today! A performance of 'A sailor went to sea sea sea' with panache (and one poppet in hysterical tears). They were so cute!

Happy weekend,

5 for Friday~ 23rd May

What a week! Thank goodness Friday rolled around.

Last weekend was b-u-s-y. It started off with a trip to the 'Genius & Ambition: Royal Academy of Arts' exhibition at the Bendigo Art Gallery and finished up with the Christening of our friend's baby. 

The new gallery space is spectacular and the exhibit was amazing, one of the best I have been to in ages. We are very lucky to have such a fantastic space, with regular international exhibitions. 

I finally gave in and bought myself a trolley this week to set up some core drawers. Best decision ever. 

We celebrated by decorating them for our Write the Room activity this week which is a great freebie from here.

My sister bought me this Minion case & sent it to me this week. It has cheered me up!

One of my Mum's bought us these class fish today. She is such a sweetie. So we now have 4 fish to name. I've already started to pray that they survive the weekend.

A 5 for Friday Catch-Up

I haven't blogged in a while! Life has been great, hectic & stressful all at once. Here is a mixed-mash-up catch-up of the last two weeks:

This term we are learning all about transport & road safety under the Inquiry topic "What things move?"
We started out by brainstorming. They are pretty insightful kidlets, even the poppet who drew "dancing clouds" because they move :)

Highlight of last week {I had major flu brain, I've had 3 days off in the last 2 weeks which I rarely do}- Poppet M comes in from lunch carrying two large sacks. Me, "Honey, what are those?" Cue rest of the class laughing hysterically in background. M's reply, "My socks. My brother helped me fill them up with sand at lunch."
It's about at this time that I realise he is barefoot and one of my girl's were carrying his shoes. I failed in keeping a straight face!

Master M with his socks full of sand/sock bags

We spent a fantastic 3 days in Melbourne last weekend for my friend's wedding. It was just gorgeous!

Cool street art in Collingwood 

Fantastic venue- Mountain Goat Brewery in Richmond.

 Wedding cuteness! The hubs & me.

Twilight in Port Melbourne

I also got a chance to get some nail art at i scream nails in Collingwood. If you're in Melbourne check them out! Or for nail inspiration follow them on instagram.

Hope you have a fantastic weekend! Love & jelly tots,

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