Tuesday 13th September 2011.

“I wear Shrek, and he wears Garfield.” Yes, well I’m sure that choice of clothing is going to help their parents distinguish the difference in these identical twins; unfortunately for us in school, we have to find a different method of telling them apart and clothing isn’t the way! Luckily, their glasses help as one wears blue frames whilst his brother’s frames are black. This will hopefully help, but unfortunately for me, they have a knack of taking them off or making their fellow classmates wear them! Had a feeling the twins would be trouble…. And over the next 37 weeks of school term… it’s bound to get worse!

Swearing is possibly well known in schools nowadays – especially by youngsters trying to impress one another. Phonics would be a good place to pick up on this, especially if you are combining ‘u’ and ‘ck’ together! Thankfully, we avoid that! What we can’t avoid is the child’s attempt of craftily covering up their knowledge of it! Trying to coax one boy back to the table with the words “come here” and pointing to the table proved trickier than I thought! Perhaps he thought… “What a stupid bloke… trying sign language on me!” with that, he persisted to sign back in the most unusual way… giving me the finger! Then two fingers… before his speciality of four fingers! I left the “come here” command after that!

To Be Continued!