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First day nerves... and that's the teacher!

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Old 18-10-2011, 08:43 AM
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Wow, these
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s are so useful, thank you everybody!!

I really like Clarabelle's
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of giving smileys right from the word go so that all the children are interested.

I had a Year 1 class the other day who we quite chatty all through the day. They weren't awful but it was the sort of level where I could get the to stop and look at me using a clap pattern or a tambourine but the minute I started telling them what I needed to do they were chatting again. I ended up repeating the clap patterns several times and I think that
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e them less effective. We ended up missing some of playtime cuz they were so slow to tidy up but that didn't seem to phase them at all and some of them had already lost huge amounts of golden time earlier in the week so there wasn't much else to take away from them. The only time they were really quiet was when I was reading a story, which makes me think sometimes you just have to get going with something so they have something to listen to, rather than continuing to wait for their silence.

Any tips on returning to a class after a few weeks? Especially a class like this one who pushed it a little last time?
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