Activities of the week : June 2010

Here are some pictures of this weeks work. My class has three children Big-S who is nine and a half, Little-N who is 6 and Little-S who is almost 6.

Little-S working with the plain binomial cube.

Big-S making patterns from geometric tiles.

Big-S learning the names of the counties of England and Wales. I got this map at a car boot sale for £1.50.

Little-S working with ten beads. Revising quantities till 90.

Little-S working with the Teen board and beads.

Little-N on a trip to science museum to visit 1001 inventions exhibition.

Children baked cinnamon rolls.

Little-N having lunch in the garden.

Little-N working with 6 bead chain.

Little-N building the Eiffel tower.

Little-S working with a tangram.

Little-N reading history books

Little-S working with continent map work.

Big-s cutting out hexagons and pentagons. More details in a separate post.

Big-S sewing hexagons together

Little-N's work with grammar symbols.

Little-N working on division board.

Big-S constructed a bucky ball, the kit is from here.

Big-s making a buggy kit.

Shoulder bag

I made my first bag!!! I needed a bag that would fit an A3 sketch book so I decided to give my sewing skills a chance and followed Tiny Happy's shoulder bad tutorial [with some adjustment to sizes], her tutorial is great and very easy for a first bag. I used some Hessian fabric that I got a year ago for the outside and an old scarf that my sis had for the lining.  The nice thing about Hessian is that you can cross stitch on it, so I hope to add a bit of detail to the bag later on.

I didn't know that making bags was so easy and quick, so I'm sure I'll be making another one soon.

My A3 sketch book is for a Geometric Art course I started on Saturday. Above is the first design we did using a pencil, compass and ruler. I'm hoping to incorporate some of theses patterns into my class and I'm thinking of a way to set up a compass activity.

A shirt

I wanted a nice plain longish purple shirt and didn't find any when i went shopping. So i decided to make it. The last time I made a shirt was in 2002 so I feel a bit rusty. I used one of my mother's shirts, its Indian style with side panels and a square under the arms. I made my own pattern and used measurements from one of my best fitting shirts. The neck line took so long to do and for a moment or two i thought I'd never get it done. But with help from my mum and the delight of working with purple fabric I managed to complete it. All that's left is to sew on the buttons and to add some embroidery detail around the neck.