281. I am on the floor listening to the teacher read a story, and I start to plait the hair of the girl sitting in front of me. And the girl behind me, plaits my hair. And another girl joins the line. ‘It is fine,’ says the teacher, ‘just as long as you are listening to the story too.’ Suddenly there is a mad rush and most of the girls are plaiting hair. The teacher smiles, and keeps reading.

282. We learn about spoonerisms, and everybody makes one with their first name and surname. The teacher even has a funny spoonerism for his name.

283. We change the words of a song and sing our new song in class.

284. The teacher knows that some of us do dance lessons, so sends us out of the class to work out the dance steps for the WHOLE class for a song. I love that we have been trusted to do this and that we can show our skills. We even get to miss out on some class work.

285. After reading a class book we watch the movie.