On Wednesday our Year 3's had their annual trip to the Time and Tide Museum. This coincides with their World War 2 unit in History. I've been looking forward to this trip all year. I love that the students dress up as evacuees to get into the theme for the day. The day was divided into 4 parts. The children learned about 'Make do and Mend' and how people used things for other purposes. They were given the opportunity to make a rag rug and really enjoyed doing this easy activity.
Haven't seen them concentrate this hard in a long time...
One of the other activities they were able to involve themselves with was bombing drills. They learned about the ARP wardens and their jobs. Students were able to find out and reenact what it would be like if a siren went off and how to make themselves safe. It culminated in some marching in a line with pretend rifles (broomsticks).
Two students learning how to put out an incendiary bomb. You can kind of see the bomb under the hose.
Other activities included learning about rationing and making and tasting Spam sandwiches. The kids were surprised that they actually liked it.
In other news. I play Korfball this week for our summer league and jammed my finger with the ball. This is the 2nd time is has happened. I may have let a loud obscenity fly out of my mouth (oops). I did enjoy that one of my students the next day said that his mum had seen me at Korfball. Back to the finger ... Last year when I jammed my finger it took FOOOORRRREVERRR to go down. I hadn't thought about it until Dan popped down on one knee to propose ... and the ring wouldn't go past my knuckle. Like three weeks later I shoved that ring on my finger and it has been there since. On Thursday I took my ring off to clean the dishes (by hand, because as my mother puts it .. I live a hard life) and go to Korfball. Surprise, surprise, the ring won't go on again. So now ...
Right-handed engagment. Sad face. Wedding is in 6 weeks. It better have gone down by then! Please disregard the ghetto nails. I let a 9 year old paint them at our school fair and managed to not take the polish off this week.
One last thing (don't mind the bad phone photo), I bought these paper files for 20p. I don't know what to use them for. Any ideas? Mind you that I don't have to keep files on my children because the office has all the info. Any classroom ideas would be appreciated. I'd be willing to buy a class set when I know what to use them for.
Thanks for linking up!
Cheers!
Becky
Wow! What a way to talk about history! I have always thought it would be a lot of fun to teach in another country. How did you get involved in that? (If you don't mind me asking.)
ReplyDeleteI hope your finger get better. That looks like it hurts.
Krystyn
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Hi Krystyn,
DeleteThanks so much for linking up. To answer your question, I got involved in teaching in England because my fiancé is English. I trained in CA but moved here as soon as I finished. The lucky thing about teaching is you can pretty much go anywhere and do it. I would recommend it. You learn a lot and it's great to bring your experience in.
Becky