Shock horror !

I had a serious shock when I fired up my computer and found that my precious files were not where they should have been.  A brief hunt found them in the circular filing cabinet (The trash can).
I restored them and then did some backups of the vital files.  Now I have them on 2 separate hard disks and 2 flash RAMs all kept separately and for good measure I have it on SkyDrive as well.

This may seem a bit excessive but the thought of losing all of my invoices, and my precious Excel files (yes, I can use Excel now) quite daunting.

Play Dough

I am sure that most teachers prefer to avoid teaching young children like the plague.
I for one, quite like teaching the little guys.  There are some very talented students out there.  I had a troublesome class, with kids who were meant to speak but were not.  I resorted to using some Play Dough sushi.  I am not quite sure why but the silent souls in the classroom were suddenly speaking in English.  If anybody has an explanation for such behaviour please leave a comment.

I usually have a stock of colouring pages as backup material, I think I will include some Play Dough as well.

Stickers are always useful for the younger students.