Some photos from a month ago!!!

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Leaf cleaning... we filled two brown bins!!


And had fun with it too!

Cuteness alert!



Tools of my trade
What can be done with some chalk and a blackboard

I used to go into schools in my previous life and struggle with the interactive whiteboard. Now things are simpler. I dont know - perhaps cos i'm old skool (literally) and i learnt how to make pictures the hard way i.e. draw them that i prefer the chalks. I suppose if you have never really been given the opportunity to make pictures the hard way and possibly relied on clip art all your life this way of making pictures seems old fashioned, messy and pointless. After all if i had an interactive white board i could have called up an illustration of Kay Neilsen's and put that on the board and it would have A) been much nicer and B) far less trouble c) taken a lot less time. However i cannot explain how it feels to stand in in wonder at something you have created yourself and go - i can't believe i did that. Which is what i did with this drawing. And the children as well, when i do drawing lessons with them and they go - that is really good Stephanie - and for them to see that these things are possible by a person standing in their presence - i suppose the only explaination i have for it is when one spirit speaks to another, or when one soul is nourished by the other, that is when the magic happens.

Well its the Advent festival today and i'm making stars. Can't wait!!! I know it is all new to me and i love it - i love the lau jiatness of the festival, i love the noise, and i love what it does for the children. When i was putting the stuff away from the classroom yesterday, i was sooo excited because i thought, this is going to be the Crystal Forest and i thought, the children love this and it is for the kids that we do this. There is something so lovely about that.

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