Red and blue and - V, VI and VII

The magic of numbers. It is absolutely critical that a sense of wonder is given with the teaching of the quality of numbers, but that it never becomes superstition - i.e. it is always rooted in the real world. Numbers and patterns are all around us - and this ability to see it with clarity and right thought, but to respect it and love it, it the foundations of the teaching of numbers.

Four - the cardinal points on the compass, the four seasons, the four elements
The four-sided figure

We did red and blue....

Matisee eat yer heart out!

Five - the five-pointed star in the apple

I also have the hexagon - or the six pointed star - and made a link to the honeycomb (in the story there was a queen bee) and snow - they had to seek the House of Snow...



Drawings for the number five...

Then today we did number seven... and the seven-pointed star

And the kids LOVED it....

I wandered lonely as a woolly cloud

We cleaned wool yesterday and played a counting game. The wool will be used to make wool angels, as well as spinning some wool to make the threads to tie the angels together.

Dragon bread and mystical numbers....

We spent a very busy week getting to know numbers and other things besides... here are some of the things we got up to... it has been unusual me taking so many photos of what we do - but i thought that we'd give a flavour of the day... wont be as many photos in the coming week.

The results of dragonbreading!

Number two - day and night, sun and moon, sea and land

Three - the introduction of perspective - front, back and side

Shapes associated with the numbers

Plastercine modelling of the dragon

I really must apologise for the uploading - for some reason it flipped all the following
pictures on their side! Main lesson books

Letter S



Letters from the previous week

Dragon making and slaying time!

It is still the season of St Michael!



The last bit of the song... the lady and knight ride off after slaying the dragon



The new picture - and a new song



Maths main lesson - the symbol on the right is a circle of course, and also the Sun, of which there is only one

We learn Roman numerals... hence the I, which is of course also the individual who is unique of which there is only ONE.


And today we made dragon bread!

Michaelmas decorations around the school

These were decorations in the common areas of the school, noy individual classrooms

Kindergarten

Preparing the harvest meal

The harvest table

Spiders and spiderwebs!

Main building middle school

Upstairs - a study in light and dark

Inspiring people in the Upper School's corridor

Class One getting ready for the Trails of Courage!