Day 156 - 9:11am, 6 June 2019
I took a half day to go into school for Little Miss' open classroom on the Egyptians. She seems to have identified with the theme, more so than some of her previous projects, because we have been regaled with pyramid facts for weeks: I think she sees herself as Cleopatra.
But oh my word, people overload! There is no room to move in the classroom after each pupil has brought in their mum and dad, grandma and grandpa, next door neighbour, Lord Lucan, the family dog and younger siblings. Ok, I exaggerate. But I have no idea of how they danced in their performance section, because her class went through to the other classroom to perform it. We were left standing behind the parents of the other class out in the corridor. Fine if you are hubby, over six foot, but if you are one of us five footers and not much more, then you can forget it.
With a little forethought, it would have been different. If the parents at the front had moved forward and sat on the vacant seats, there would have been enough room for us all to get in and to arrange ourselves so that everyone could enjoy the show. As it was, I was rather glad it was over and we could retreat home.
Little Mister and his class is in the playground having returned from their day trip in the Pentland hills. If Little Miss is effervescent about her learning, he is taciturn. We barely get a "good" out of him when asked to describe his day. He says he will tell us about it later, but when he gets home, he has forgotten. Either he is developing the brain of a goldfish, or this is how it's going to be until he navigates in and out of his teenage years.
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