From last week...brownies and birdies

It's difficult to describe how much is stuffed into one week...here are some photos then...

Drawing from the Bird of Truth, a scottish fairy tale

Two times tables

Our Spring Song

Making browines in the kitchen

Sharing it out...the four times tables

Captured in the main lesson book

Three times tables from last week's egg nests

Lovely drawings from the last main lesson block

In the ML book, the two times tables pentagram

Adding - we do the sum and then the children provide possibilities...oops...perhaps 15 needs to be corrected :-)
 

Number chart

Gnomies made for sale at the children's craft table

Maths Main Lesson, wildflowers and felting...

Nature table that reflects the coming spring

Parts of the classroom which have changed colour as the season changes

Drawing wildflowers

We do gardening and have planted a wildflower garden. Kevin, RSPB and friend, has come into help us. Kevin is very au fait with agricultural issues and how farmers can plant for wildlife. He did a talk on the kinds of flowers we had in the mix and then showed the children some of the main varieties. They then drew it from the botanical drawings. This prefigures Class Five's Main Lesson on Botany. Kai is doing a marigold.
 

As is Luciano...all drawings have gnomes in them!

Cornflower and poppy!

Flax flowers, cornflowers and poppy

Marigold

Poppy!

Paddy plus gets orders from King Equals

We are doing addition and multiplication right now. Paddy Plus has been asked by King Equals to add up all the crystal buttons he has in his cave. The children had to look for the buttons and then together as well as individually they counted the buttons and added.

Multiplication - eyes on gnomes

Sewing our felt bags

Corey and Oisin discuss the blanket stitch

Tara completes her felted wallet and is over the moon!

Snowdrop angels

So for craft the children are becoming more able. Some are very competent with the neddle now and i thought for early Feb it would be lovely to do snowdrops as they were coming out...here are the results.

Drawing from Prince Ahmed fairytale - from Morocco!

St Brigid's Day and Candlemas

Celebrating festivals is an important part of school life and making connections between the older and younger children is also something which builds a school community. For St Brigid's Day we went to Class Six and all of Lower School learnt how to make St Brigid's crosses. Some met with more success than others :-)

Making an earthcandle

Snow the day after!!!

Knitting, cooking and other such like things (like learning to read...)

Last half term there was the dreaded virus and the entire school was hit bad. However it was a good opportunity to teach the two children in my class to knit. The girl now is knitting her own scarf at home with one knitting needle and a pencil. "Cos i don't have another knitting needle, Stephanie". The scarf is now around 15 cm. Here they are at the very very start. Luciano was able to knit instantly. It was very impressive.

Here is the poem the kids have been learning

We get them to memorise a poem and then we write the words on the board to give them an understanding of reading. Of course they can't read as such (although i have been told by parents that some children - the older ones - are reading and writing already. The vowels are in different colours as they are the angel letters and have a different quality about them. The picture refers to the Russian fairytale, The Stolen Turnips, the Magic Table Cloth, the Sneezing Goat and the Wooden Whistle. After this they copy the verse into their books.

Close up of the house

Making biscuits!!! Of birds for Valentine's Day

Creaming the butter

Buttering the baking tray

The old lady in the Stolen Turnips

This was from last term when we only did the Englihs Main Lesson block as there were so many absences. This half term we are going to be doing only Maths.