My daughter has given me an advent calendar. Every day in December she has cleaned one thing, she cleaned the sink one day, cleaned my boots for work another day. Such a sweet idea. She wanted to get me a calender but had no money. So she said she would do a chore instead.
Miss Konstantine
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I have been teaching Maths in an East London School since 2006. I love to share tasks at: mathshko.com
Joined October 2014
- Anyone else finding this job hard at the moment? I say “job” and not “teaching” because being in the classroom and teaching is mostly a joy. It’s the job that’s crippling me
- All decisions or new initiatives that are introduced in schools should be viewed from the perspective of a teacher on a full timetable or a full teaching day with break duties.
- A teacher retired after 37 years at our school. The usual “thank yous” were said then she followed it with a list of people she wouldn’t like to thank. She begun to do a “no thank you” speech that included many education secretaries starting with Kenneth Baker. 🤣
- Replying to @JoannechocolatHello, I'm a teacher. You may know me from my greatest hits including: “please take your bag off the desk” “you’re going to have to buy a calculator for the exam” and the hit that remained at number one for 12 years; "How have you managed to get through the day without a pen?"
- Current season: car heaters on during the drive into work. Air con blasting on the way home from work
- My primary aged child tried out for the football, swimming, netball, athletics teams. didn’t make any. 1 form entry. I get the best team is needed but the same kids are doing all 4 pretty much. I want her to love sports. this is very disheartening. Why can’t they have a B team?
- Going to use these with my foundation classes. They aren't particularly exciting but it will keep them busy/quiet for 5 minutes so i can take the register and dont require printing Maybe useful for someone - i have a few more to add. wordpress.com/page/mathshko.…
- Trigonometry: After Pythagoras I'll be using these tasks... got a few more in mind but made these to start with. mathshko.com/2018/09/10/tri…
- What do you notice about the areas and perimeter of the shapes?
- Looked at sequences with yr8 today. Towards the end of the lesson I wanted to get their attention again so I counted back from three to signal I wanted them to be quiet. Me: “3… 2… 1” St raises their hand and says: “- n + 4”
- mathshko.com/2018/06/19/pyt… Started planning some stuff for September. Helps me feel relaxed to be prepared.
















