Christy, sounds like fun at your place. Asha can't get out of her cot thank goodness as she wakes early at about 5am but we often just leave her there to talk to herself, well at least until I am awake enough to get her.
I am so exhausted, I think it will be bed time very soon. We had our class excursion today, 33 degrees today as well!!! We went to the Perth Zoo with our class and they did us proud! We had a lesson with one of the Zoo education officers and our kids knew all about camoflage (sp?? I know it is wrong but can't work it out tonight!) and the difference between a Cheetah and a Leopard, they knew what a Cassowary was and they answered the questions really well. I teach some kids who are form low socioeconomic families and soem of them have never been on a bus let alone go to the zoo and I had a coupld of kids like that in my group. They had never been to the zoo and the looks on their faces as they discovered what was in each exhibit was priceless. One of the girls who hadn't been to the zoo before found the reticulated python and it is HUGE. She looked at it and then ran to me and grabbed my hand and dragged me to the exhibit saying Mrs Miller come her, look at that. She talked no stop all day about the animals that she saw and while for most kids it is not a big thing to talk all day, this child is a selective mute! She brought tears to my eyes as I watched her enjoying every single thing at the zoo. So that has made my day worth while ... all the stinking flies, the sweaty hugs, the tiredness and all the dramas ... so worth it all and I look forward to doing it all again next year! Although maybe not the zoo!!!!
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