Teachers and presents

We have well and truly entered the busy pre-Christmas period. Only a few days until the schools break off for the holidays and there are many preparations yet to be finished. Having two boys at different schools means two sets of teachers and two sets of presents.

 

As Sam's class is small, I made each child a little gift bag with three gingerbread cookies, and the teachers and support staff got one with a few nice chocolates and a Christmas tree decoration.

Today BB gave a talk at school; he was quite nervous. He had to tell a story in 5 minutes, and had been agonising over this for weeks.  He had tried reading various books, and even writing his own story. In the end I advised him to keep it simple, and perhaps try to inject a little Christmas spirit into the story.

He eventually chose an old classic: the Gingerbread Man. BB turned the little old lady character into Mrs Santa, and the cow and the horse into a reindeer and a snow hare. The fox became a sly wolf, and he took a large Gingerbread man into school as a prop (and ultimately to eat!) and gingerbread Santa biscuits for all 27 of his class mates.

Presents for BB's teachers -  a bag of our pollinator friendly annual seed mixes!

The story went down really well (and so did the Gingerbread biscuits) and his story ended up in the class' prestigious 'Hall of Fame'! 

Well done, my lovely Christmas elf!