小学英语教与学杂志怎么样(热门20篇)

My hobby

My hobby is lisetening to music.I like listening to music best.Because listening to music makes me relaxed.When I am tired,I will listening some quiet music,that makes me fall asleep very quickly.My favorite music is the music that has good lyrics.Good lyrics can also make me learn Chinese or English well.

I love listening to music.I will keep this hobby forever.

1. 眼见为实.

seeing is believing.

2. 人生短暂，学艺无穷。

Art is long, life is short.

3. 三思而后行.

Look before you leap.

4. 有其父，必有其子。

Like father,like son.

5. 再晚也不算迟。

Better late than never.

6. 条条大路通罗马。

All roads lead to Rome.

7. 并非闪光的都是金子。

All that glitters is not gold.

8. 种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。

As you sow,so shall you reap.

9. 物以类聚。

Birds of a feather flock together.

10. 不劳无获。

No pain,no gain.

11. 入乡随俗，

When in Rome,do as the Romans do.

12. 那恰是我所喜欢的。

Its my cup of tea.

13. 一日一苹果，医生远离我。

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

14. 患难见真情。

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

15. 少壮不努力，老大徒伤悲。

A young idler; an old beggar.

16. 熟能生巧。

Practice makes perfect.

17. 一分耕耘，一分收获。

No sweet without sweat.

18. 时间就是金钱。

Time is money.

19. 欲速则不达。

Haste makes waste.

20. 说起来容易做起来难。

Easier said than done.

21. 人各有所好。

Every man has his taste.

22. 物极必反。

Extremes meet.

23. 活到老学到老。

Live and learn.

24. 事出必有因。

Nothing comes of nothing.

25. 光荣之路常坎坷。

The path to glory is always rugged.

26. 失败是成功之母。

Failure is the mother of success.

27. 江山易改，本性难移。

A leopard can not change his spots.

28. 好心有好报。

Good mind,good find.

29. 得饶人处且饶人。

Forgive others whenever you can.

30. 爱乌及乌。

Love me ,love my dog.

There are many traditional festivals in China, such as the childrens day, the national day, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid Autumn Festival, but my favorite and most expected is the Spring Festival.

Lets talk about the origin of the Spring Festival. Legend has a monster called "year", the head long antennae, fierce and abnormal. "Year" years of deep seabed, every new years Eve just climbed out, devouring livestock harm human life. Therefore, every new years Eve, people help the aged and the young stockaded village fled to the mountains, to avoid "year" damage. A new years Eve, peach blossom village people are to help the aged and the young to take refuge, an old man came to the village, at this time, everyone on the run, who do not care about the old man, only an old woman carrying food to persuade the elderly, said: "everyone in the refugee! You can run away with the food, too. " The old man said unhurried, "can I stay in your house for a while?" The old woman hurried to persuade the elderly, the old man just only smiled but did not reply the old woman had to promise the elderly. The old man hung a red lantern in front of the house, and there was a lot of red things in front of the door. Suddenly, "year", "year" went to the front of the wife, I saw the red light scattered, "year" was scared away. At this time, sounded crackling sound of firecrackers, "year" was scared to death, escape from the village of peach blossom. Later, people called the happy day of the people "Spring Festival".

The Spring Festival is coming, the street is very busy! Malone on the road, the flow of water. A row of shops at the entrance, some hanging on every kind of lanterns, some big red lanterns hang, some affixed with "longevity, happiness as immense as the Eastern Sea" auspicious antithetical couplet. The street shop owners are Strike while the iron is hot. peddled. The small shop selling special purchases for the Spring Festival display, the size of the red lanterns and printed with a picture of auspicious antithetical couplet, dizzying, customers coming in a steady stream of Shaoxing, the boss too busy to attend to all. The children are wearing new clothes brightly coloured shuttle in the high streets and back lanes, face hung sweet smile. The streets were full of people, adults and children. The sound of firecrackers, fireworks, cheers and laughter filled the whole town, everywhere permeated with a festive atmosphere.

Not only in the street, but also at home. At home, people eat reunion dinner with relatives coming back from far away, then watch the Spring Festival Gala together, chat together, and my family is no exception. That year, our family and some relatives around the table to eat hot pot, mom and dad ate while chatting. I just sat there quietly enjoying the delicious food. After dinner, we put the fireworks in the square, a branch of a dragon like fireworks into the sky, blooming in the bright moonlight beside. I also tried to put one, but since then I cant put the fireworks again. The Spring Festival is really a beautiful day.

There is a lovely teacher in our class. we like her as our friends. we would like to tell her everything, sadness and happiness . She helps us on our lessons and guides us on other things. I am happy to have such a good teacher.

Sports benefit me in many ways. Firstly, sports call can make me fit and

strong physically. When taking part in sports, I get the chance to train almost

all parts of our bodies. In addition, sports call can maintain my psychological

well being, Whenever Im in low spirit,aking part in sports can help me forget my

anxieties and worries. Besides, sports can teach me some lessons about life.

Through participation, I can learn that on the playground I not only struggle

for my own self but also fight for my team. Sports teach me to be considerate,

cooperative and optimistic.

I am fond of sports very much. I feel that I not only gain a well balanced

life through going in for sports, but also get more chances to make more

friends, to move closer to nature. Sports add happiness to my everyday life when

I participate in them in a proper way.

My favourite sport is football, as it is very exciting. I play footetball

three times a week. Most often I play it in my school. I feel very happy when I

play football in school with my friends. Sometimes I play football in the

playground near my school.Football is very easy to play. If you play football

very well, you can form a football team to take part in the competition. You may

become a famous football star.

Therefore, football is a very good sport. I think, you can play football,

cant you?

Hello! My name is Catherine. I’m ten. I’m a girl. I’m from LuGu Foreign Language Primary school.

I’m very busy! I get up at seven o’clock and eat breakfast at eight o’clock. It’s eight ten. It’ time to go to school. I have lunch at twelve o’clock. It’s five twenty. It’s time to go home.

My friend Jessica says:Catherine, school is over. Let’s go home. Ok?

"OK".I say.

I’m busy today. But I’m very happy.

Although the winter vacation, I will continue my learning, in the morning,

is a good time to read, with the early morning, our family to read with relish,

three people has become a bookworm. Dad read the literary works such as crazy,

my mother read prose leisurely affectionate, for me, I read catchy childrens

poetry. A book, lets open horizon, increase knowledge. Reading good books is

like and wise in the communication, the author of often we read happy place,

could not help but laugh; Read moving place, can flow was moved to tears... . A

good book, often make us forget all about eating and sleeping, really achieve

"reading a good book, three days and I do not know meat".

Winter vacation, there is a Spring Festival, this is my most happy moment.

The New Year, my father came back from the street to buy a dozen small red

lanterns, and string them into 2 series, dad smiled and said: "the twelve red

lanterns indicates our whole family, in the New Year, twelve months are

prosperous". Mother, busy preparing for dinner, but rich, seafood, vegetables,

beef, little of course not a fish, in the traditional Chinese Spring Festival,

eat fish means "more than" year after year, good luck. I have not been idle, and

come back to the supermarket to buy necessities such as orange juice and

beer.

Winter vacation, I could have just like all the children have a blast, but

my eyesight is bad, only looking at the computer to buy, occasionally WangSha

several renju experience, very good!

Happy and short winter vacation life, really want to keep the pace of time,

has been living in the winter vacation.

Each person has a hobby, I was no exception. My hobby is widespread, like singing, like paper-cut, like painting, like playing badminton, like reading a book.

I love to sing, naturally born with cool and refreshing sweet a good voice. Seems to be in my ear and notes into the clouds qingmiao like waves, fly me to the music. My song sweet crisp, like a mountain stream, with the fragrance of the soil characteristic, joyfully. In a good mood, I often singing songs, singing songs to go to school, singing songs to do by hand.

My painting style, painting the sky, dont like others always draw a sun, draw a few white clouds, a whim, but I was painting a rainy sky, draw a the night sky. In ten big white paper I purposely made into a picture file, now there are 2 this figure painting, this landscape painting, 2 in this drawing file notebook, 3 this fantasy picture file.

I also very love reading. I like reading books to what degree? Wash feet walking look, look. I put the book as a part of life, reading a book to hungry, as gorky said: "I jump in the book, like a hungry person sees a loaf of bread." I often attracted by the plot and unable to extricate themselves, and sometimes laugh, sometimes silence, sometimes even shed tears. Everyone gave me a lovely derisively called "small fans".

This is my colorful hobby.

每一个人都有爱好，我也不例外。我的爱好广泛：喜欢唱歌、喜欢剪纸、喜欢画画、喜欢打羽毛球、喜欢看书。

我天生就爱唱歌，生就一副清凉甜润的好嗓子。在我耳里，音符似乎变成了轻纱般飘动的云朵，带我飞向音乐的高空。我的歌声清甜干脆，如一条山间的溪流，带着泥土特有的芬芳，欢快地流淌。心情好时，我就经常哼着歌儿扫地，哼着歌儿上学，哼着歌儿做手工。

我的画别具一格，画到天空时，不像别人总画一个太阳，再画几朵白云，而我却突发奇想，画一个下雨的天空，画一个夜晚的天空。我特意用10张大白纸订成一个画档，现在已经有2本人物画档，1本风景画档，2本记事画档，3本幻想画档了。

我还十分热爱看书。我喜欢看书到什么程度了呢?走路看，洗脚看。我把书看成了生命中的一部分，读起书来如饥似渴，就像高尔基所说：“我扑在书上，就像饥饿的人扑在面包上。”我经常被故事中的情节吸引地无法自拔，时而哈哈大笑，时而沉默不语，时而甚至流下了眼泪。大家都送我一个可爱的雅号“小书迷”。

这就是我那多姿多彩的业余爱好。

小学英语作为近几年新增设的科目，在肩负英语启蒙和为以后进一步学习大基础的重任的同时，又面临着检验匮乏，教学对象年龄小，注意力，接受，分辨能力相对较低等重多困难。那么，怎么才能克服困难，有效良好地进行小学英语教学呢？我认为应在分析学生的年龄特征、心理、注意力等特征的前提下，精心设计组织教学。而其中，游戏的运用尤其重要。现行小学英语教材就充分认识到了这一点，在整册教学内容中，几乎在每课都穿插有游戏。

游戏在小学英语教学中有着多方面的重要的作用。

一、 激发兴趣，活跃气氛，吸引注意力

一节好课不是老师一味的讲，学生一味的听，而应是有静有动，动静相结合的，小学设管内的天性是好动的，要让他们端端正正的坐着听四十分钟，是很难办到的。即使做到了也收不到良好的教学效果。同时还可能压抑了他们的个性，影响了他们的学习兴趣，此外，心理研究表明，小学生的注意力稳定性较差。最好的也只能保持30分钟，况且长时的有意注意容易使人感到枯燥乏味，投入程度也不会高，如果在教学中结合教师的讲解，适当地安排一些游戏，为孩子们提供一个动的舞台，把他们的思维和身体从疲劳、紧张中解放出来，使他们涣散的注意被吸引过来，在轻松愉快的气氛中完成学习任务。例如，在学习人身体部位名称时，刚开始学生们觉得新鲜，兴趣很浓，热情还很高，但随着单词加多，听讲和读的时间加长，他们感到很疲乏，觉得没意思了，注意力也不能很好地集中了。这时，我适时地加入了“听口令，做动作”的游戏，一听说要做游戏，孩子们立刻变得活跃起来，注意力又集中了，在随后“touch your head” “stamp your feet” “wave your arm”的口令中，他们一会摸头，一会跺脚，一会挥胳膊，忙得不亦乐乎，最终在笑声中记住了个部位的名称。

二、 创设情景，加深记忆

一种语言习惯的习得，必须是在一定的语言背景和情景中完成，这些仅靠课文中提供的情景对话是远远不够的。那些对话是别人的，学生只是一个扮演者和朗读者，因为没有心灵的感受和理解，许多人不能很好地融入其中。游戏就弥补了之不足。它不仅为学生提供了情境，语境，还让学生们真正地成为“主人公”亲身经历资：料；来/源，于ＧＺＵ５２１学：习；网 http：//Ｇzｕ５２1。COm，这对他们的记忆又是一大帮助，如果为了记忆只是一味地重复练习，他们就只能是机械地记忆，而这种记忆是很难保持的，但如果将所学的内容安排在他们积极从事着的活动中去，成为活动的直接对象，这样，因为是他们亲自感受体验，直接参与了的，记忆效果受识记时的情绪状态的影响。情绪状态较佳时对记忆作用明显。这一研究结果提示我们，在教学时，应该重视情境，愉快地教学，这又如何做到呢？游戏便为我们提供了一条捷径。在教学中开展多种多样轻松幽默的游戏，使他们在笑声中学会英语。

三、 训练口语，发展思维

英语的学习不仅仅是记忆、理解、书写，还要能够说出来，能够正确流利地说出来。这是重点也难点。对于初学英语的人来说，更是难上加难。他们往往心理紧张，没有自信，不敢开口。更别说在课后生活中运用了。要攻破这个拦路虎，首先必须给学生一个没有压力的轻松环境，消除内心的紧张与害怕，同时，鼓励他们进行语言交流，在运用语言与其他人互相讲话时，学习的内容会丰富起来，游戏就恰恰能够做到这些。游戏给了学生接近生活，轻松愉快的环境，带给他们描述、表达、说明的欲望，在不知不觉中训练了口语，这些都比学生自己读教材重复教师的话有价值得多。

语言与思维之间存在密切的关系，游戏在联系课本词汇的同时，促使学生准确地表达思想感情，把他们所学的语言词汇合理地组织，适当地安排，准确地表达，这个过程，丰富了他们的词汇，丰富了他们的的感性经验，推动了思维的灵活性、逻辑性的发展。

此外，游戏给了学生想象和思考的空间，激发了他们的想象力和思考能力。如在教学“friendship”时，为了让他们深刻理解记忆这个单词的含义，我采用了画图的游戏，就是把这个单词的意思用画图表示出来。因为“friendship”的概念是抽象的，没有实物可以比拟，这样就不能照猫画虎了。只能凭借自己的脑子去思考去想象。有的学生想象了一个有关友谊的故事，画了一幅漫画，有的想到了恩格斯和马克思的友谊，画了两幅肖像；有的想到了一句古诗“桃花潭水深千尺，不及汪伦送我情”，并且惟妙惟肖地画了出来，以次来体现“friendship”的含义这样，学生们充分发挥了他们的想象和思考的能力，深刻地理解了单词的意义，思维能力也得到了进一步发展。

四、 培养情感，发展能力

在教学中，有趣的游戏活动，可以养成学生热爱生活，开朗乐观的生活态度，能够让学生有机会感受生活的多姿多彩，有机会展现自己的生命活力和丰富想象力，创造力，从而树立自信心和自豪感。在游戏活动中，学生与他人合作交流，使其体验到团结、友爱、互助、荣誉感、责任感，进取心等积极的情感。比如，在角色扮演的游戏中，使其学习表达各种社会角色的情感，在画画游戏中进一步发展了他们的美感，此外，游戏中还存在一个如何协调的问题，如何制定游戏规则和如何违反规则进行处罚的问题，学生们需要自主地讨论和解决这个问题。这个过程中他们的组织能力、协调能力等都得以锻炼，同时这队学生的独立性、正义感都有潜移默化的作用。

以上是游戏在小学英语教学中四方面的作用，除此之外，还有其他作用，这根据游戏形式、内容的不同而异，当然，并不是所有游戏都能起到了这些作用。这就要求我们在教学中精心选择、组织，恰当安排，以使其取得最佳效果。

国庆节早上我和爸爸妈妈一起看国庆节大阅兵。

胡锦涛同志坐上车，缓慢的向前驶去。每经过一个，都会高喊“同志们好，同志们辛苦了。”解放军就异口同声的回答：“为人民服务。”然后，我们的胡锦涛同志登上天安门城楼开始阅兵。

解放军一个方队一个方队的大步朝主席台过来。他们步伐非常整齐，铿锵有力。有步兵、炮兵、女子兵、后勤、炮弹等方队，炮弹方队里有最先进的导弹，这些导弹都是我国科学家用汗和血研制出来的。有了这些先进的武器，别的国家就不敢欺侮我们了。

我爱我的祖国，祝福我的祖国生日快乐!我长大了要当科学家，要让世界各国互相帮助，和平相处。

National Day morning and my father and mother together to see the National Day parade.

President Hu Jintao sat down and drove slowly forward. Every time after a force, will shout "comrades are good, comrades hard." Peoples Liberation Army replied in unison: "for the people." Then, our President Hu Jintao boarded the Tiananmen Square began parade.

Peoples Liberation Army a squad team a big step toward the podium. They are very neat pace, sonorous and powerful. There are infantry, artillery, women soldiers, logistics, shells and other side teams, shells side team has the most advanced missiles, these missiles are our scientists developed with sweat and blood. With these advanced weapons, other countries can not bully us.

I love my motherland, bless my motherland happy birthday! I grew up to be a scientist, let the world help each other, live in peace.

Sent away the hot summer, ushered in the cool autumn, autumn, layering make dye, stacked stream of gold, the most beautiful should be the number of orchards.

You see, the fruit of the orchard started a game of beauty. The first one is talking orange, it said: "You see, we are all wearing a yellow robe, more prestige Yeah." "Well! We are the most beautiful, we are all purple Yingying, crystal clear in the sun , The more beautiful! "The grape went on. Pomegranate grinned and said with a smile: "My mouth is hidden, but the beautiful ruby Oh!" "We are the most beautiful, wearing red cheongsam." Apple does not convinced, "my pulp with boiled A boiled, but also good for people with diarrhea! We are the most useful. "" My flesh sweet and delicious, many varieties. "Grapefruit bravely said. "Hey, do not leave me, my shape is beautiful, some round, some like a gourd, the fruit is also very good, you can eat directly, you can also and rock sugar stew to eat, cough. I was the most useful "Pear proudly said ... ... fruit in the orchard you squeeze me touch, to show off their own beauty, their own use, calling the fruit growers as soon as possible to pick.

Autumn is a colorful season, I love autumn, more love autumn orchard.

My name is Zeyu. I’m a Chinese boy. I’m from Changzhou. I’m thin. My eyes are small. My father is an engineer and my mother is a bus driver. They don’t work on Saturdays and Sunday.

They like going shopping on Sundays. Sometimes they like cooking, but I don’t. I like playing football with my friends. In the evenings I watch TV.

Sometimes I listen to music, but my parents don’t. They like reading magazines. I have a happy family.

[我的家庭优秀英语作文

Hello. Im Timmy. I like to eat eggs ang milk for breakfast. I often eat my breakfast at home. It starts the day .

I often have lunch at school. For lunch, I often eat rice and meat. It can give me energy.

For supper. I often have vegetables and apples. They are good for health.I after supper within grandparents at home.

你好。我是蒂米。我早餐喜欢吃鸡蛋和牛奶。我经常在家吃早饭。开始这一天。

我经常在学校吃午餐。吃午饭,我通常吃米饭和肉。它能给我能量。我的饮食习惯

吃晚饭。我经常有蔬菜和苹果。它们对健康有益。我在爷爷奶奶家里吃晚饭。

Today is my busy day.Let me tell you the plan of me .In the morning,I must  get up very eariy to  makes breakfast for my family . They have  breakfast at about 7:00.  Then will I play badminton outside with my goodfriend at 8:00.In the noon,I should back home and make lunch for   them .After having lunch ,I will wash the dish.Then I will take part in  a gathering of friends after 2:00.At 7:00pm,I should make supper.At night,I  should cieal the room and do some homework.I think I will  be  tired.what a busy day of me !

My name is Simon. Im 24 years old now. Im from Changsha University. I

major in English, because I have the gift for language study.

In my opinion, English is well-known all around the world. If I can speak

excellent English, I could travel to everywhere in the world without language

barriers. Now I can speak English like an American. Most of my classmates always

envy my oral English.

I like traveling very much. Through traveling, I can widen my perspective

and know more about our world. Now I have been to so many cities, such as

Guangzhou, Zhuhai, and Zhongshan. These cities are nice, clean and modern.

I think Im easy-going and hard-working. When Im at work, I always try my

best to do everything well. I never let others do anything that I can do, and I

never put off todays work to tomorrow. When you have difficulties, I’m eager to

give you a hand if Im able to. I hope I can be your best friend.

Today morning, my mother took me to the bird market to buy a lively and lovely little rabbit back.

I gave this little rabbit a name called white. Because it is snow white, without a little miscellaneous color, looks like a group of white cotton. White eyes red like two sparkling rubies, a small mouth lip in half, revealing two rows of white teeth. When you eat something will be issued creak sound.

Little rabbits legs are short before and after the long, running away from the particularly fast Its short tail like a small pompon. Can be funny!

I really like the white rabbits lively and lovely, because it brought me endless fun.

hobbies are very important to a person. without having any hobby, life wont be as colorful as it should be. i have a variety of hobbies, such as collecting stamps, playing musical instruments, reading, and doing sport activities.

when i am free, i will spend time on my hobbies. when i am in a blue mood, i will also do my hobbies to cheer myself up. hobbies can help us improve our moods. many hobbies requires devotion. for eample, when you play a musical instrument, you have to practice over and over in order to perform good music.

after a period if you still enjoy it, gradually it will become a hobby of yours. but, remember: a hobby is like gold under the ground; no hobby will come to you unless you dig it out yourself. if you can treat study as one of you hobbies, learning will be more enjoyable. i hope all of you can find your own hobbies and also have fun from them.

I had a happy day off last Sunday.It was sunny all day.

In the morning, I helped my mother do housework. After that,I washed the car with my father.And I babysitted my sister.

In the afternoon,we went out for lunch.We ate the BeiJing Duck ,It was very delicious. After lunch , we went to the aquarium.First,we visited the VisitorsCenter and watched a movie about sharks.Then,we went to the Outdoor Pool,we saw a bid octopus.We also saw mang kinds of fishes,but I liked the seals best.Because they were very cute.We took lots of photos there. Finally , tired but happy,we took the bus back to home.

At the end of the day,we visited my grandparents.I watched some DVDs with my grandfather,and my parents told with my grandmother.We were really happy.

I hope I will have a happy day off next week,too.

上星期天我有一个快乐的休息日。这是晴朗的一天。

早上,我帮妈妈做家务。在那之后,我洗了车与我父亲同在一样。我照顾我的妹妹。

下午,我们出去吃午饭。我们吃了北京烤鸭,它非常美味。午饭后,我们去了水族馆。首先,我们参观了游客中心,观看了一部关于鲨鱼的电影。然后,我们去了户外游泳池,看到章鱼。我们也看到许多种类的鱼,但我最喜欢海豹。因为它们非常可爱。我们把很多照片。最后,很累,但是很开心,我们坐公车回到家里。

在一天结束的时候,我们参观了我的祖父母。我看到一些dvd与我的祖父,我的父母告诉我的祖母。我们真的快乐。

我希望我下周将有一个快乐的休息日。

Im ahappyenglish name is you happy? im very happy.i have a good name is cheng xin has a pair of big eyes.i like her.

I like birthday is in november.im a goodgirl.im ten years old.im in class seven grade teachers name is yao hui is a good teacher!i like her.

what color do you like? i like pink and perple.i want a rabbit for my birthday.i like to eat hambuger.i like to go to shool.

I have a good mother.i have a good father.

oh，no!im hugry! "mumy! im hugry!"

good bye!

My father is long with a black hair, a pair of bright and piercing eyes, big nose, looks very handsome, there is a problem - love to drink.

A father came back from work to see the table with two bottles of Wuliangye, my father suddenly enraptured, "ah! Great! Great!" Said, my father flew past, pick up the bottle to drink, "Gudong Gudong ... ..." Breath to drink a bottle, and then picked up another bottle, so that two bottles of Wuliangye is also no left. Dad after drinking, said to me: "go! And I went to thousands of passengers Long supermarket, I bought you a car to go!

Come back, my father riding a crooked, my heart is very afraid, urging my father to ride, my father said: "Nothing! Nothing!" Said, the car just like the earth embrace. "Oh ... ..." my ass broke the flowers, my father quickly worried to ask me: "how ah, did not fall?" Looked at my father look anxious, I had to say: "nothing!" Then I squeaked and said: "Dad, you - after - do not drink -" Dad lowered his head and said: "Well!" Look at my fathers appearance, I laughed.

This is my dad, i love my daddy.

Hi,boys and girls,Do you want to know my lastWeekend? Let me tell you.

On Saturday morning,I got up at 10:00,Then I ate breakfast,I did my homework.In the afternoon,I had to go to school to study.

In the evering,I watched TV and played with my little dog. It’s white and lovely.

On Sunday morning, I got up early and went to the school to study. After school, I helped my mother to do housework, She was happy.

In the afternoon, I played a ball with my friends and washed my clothes. At night, I went to bed at 9:00.

This is my last weekend.what a busy one!