{ Lest we forget }

 I have to admit that I love teaching my year ones about Rememberance day. I am a great avocate of our armed forces and having been brought up in that environment I am so thankful for all that they put on the line to allow us to keep on living the way we do.

 We created these little poppies and made them into a wreath to present in assembly today. We had the BBC on the interactive whiteboard all day and watched the Rememberance day parade. It was great to introduce my kiddos to a very special day and teach them to think about the past and thank people who have helped us. 
I will try and get a picture of the display the kids made when all the poppies had been presented. :)

What  did you do for the 11th?

{ Word Work }

We have been looking at nouns this week to add to our knowledge on parts of speech. We are reading 'Where the wild things are' by Maurice Sendak, the kids love this book as do I! We started the week by going on a noun hunt around the school, this was great fun and everyone had fun pointing out nouns all over the place.

 

When we came back we looked at some of the nouns that we had documented on our whiteboards (I LOVE WHITEBOARDS!). 

We created Amy Lemon's 'Where the wild things are' activity and the children wrote the story as best they could. 

We posted these lovely pieces of writing up in the hall for everyone to see and have now moved them back to class so they are ready for parents evening in a few days.

On to verbs next week! Tally Hoe!!

{ Craftiness }

Little star clips

Completly off topic from teaching. I have been craving crafts recently..really badly. Obviously Pinterest is the place to go to find great inspiration and I got in the mood to create bows, clips and even a little hair band.

Bow clip (modeled by my kitten :))

Hairband with a felt flower

 So after I had babbled in hair accessories and trying to crochet but failing miserably I started baking. Now I love baking but the oven that Mr W and I have in our rented place is rubbish so I had completly given up for the last year. Then I created a recipe for a autumn cinamon apple bake and lone behold my wee oven coped! :)

 

Yummy!! Comment for recipe :)
What crafts have you got on the go at the moment?

{ Paris }

So I have been on my half term break and took a little vaccation with the lovely Mr W and headed to Paris! It was my first time in France and to say I was excited would have been a little bit of an understatement ha. 

I hold an art club on Tuesday after school for year 1 and 2 kiddos and the last thing we made was these really cute Eiffle Tower paintings...just to keep the excitement going! We only have half an hour for this club so we did well but ours didn't turn out as cute as Cassie's.

Now that i've been to gay Paris, I think I would change this next time I do them and add some lights along the actual structure. Could also possibly do them on black card and create the tower in a golden colour..just to be a little more realistic :)

Hope you have had a lovely rest and are ready to see lots of smiley faces tomorrow morning!