March 4th 2015 - Family Learning course

March 4th 2015 - Family Learning course

Today is Wednesday which means I am back school for the family learning course.  Today the children didn't come and join us as OFSTED are in the school and its not fair to disrupte the classes more than they already are.

Once we were all there in the library and everyone had their coffee and biscuits, Ruth explained to us that the children wouldn't be joining us and why.  She then told us that we were all going to do some creative writing and write our own story.  She  gave us some pictures of doors as the promt for where our story would go and the starting line of the story.  I chose this door (very strange that I found the exact one on pinterest! Fate is what I call it).  And I proceeded to write my story.  (see below for my full story.)

After we did these we talked about nouns, pronouns, verbs and adverbs and played a few simple games linked to them.  One of the games was a version of consequences where we each wrote one word, folded the paper and passed to the  next person to add the next bit.  Most of them didn't make much sense.  We then had to used the categories to make a 4 word sentence but had to use alliteration where each word started with the same letter.  I wrote 2 they were "many monkeys marched madly" and "small shapes sang slowly."

We then did a worksheet linked to the above, on it was a few short sentences that we had to make more interesting by adding nouns, verbs etc.  One of the original sentences was "The fox had a tail", edited I made mine "The fierce red fox had a long fluffy tail". 

OFSTED came into where we working and asked if they could join us for a few minutes, alot of the parents on course suddenly had "the don't come near me" or "you cant see me" image and stance.  I personally had nothing to hide to so answered the questions one of them asked me and showed my folder of work that we have done over the weeks to the other to look at.  Whilst they looking at my work they are not making notes on what we're doing nor are they asking questions!

It was a shame that the children were not able to join us today but we did get alot of work done.  The work the children were meant to do has been sent home with us for them to complete if they want to - mine WILL be doing it as they wanted me to go on this course to help THEM.

Next week we have a lady fro Dove Cottage (William Wordsworths house) coming to talk to us and apparently this does involve us dressing up etc, so should be fun.

My Story written in 20minutes today:

(First line given to us) I stood silently, looking at the door.  With a slow creaking sound it opened.  Taking a deep breath I walked inside..... Having slowly climbed the eight stone steps I had no idea what I was about to face.  I fully opened my eyes to see where I was and where this door had taken me.  To my supprise it was a magical land in all shades of purple.

The flowers wer all purple and of every variety you can think of, the leaves on the trees seemed  to change from purple to silver as they caught in the sunlight.  It was beautiful and a sight you would never forget.

There was a path off to the right which I followed, and after walking for a few minutes a sign appeared infront of me and it read "This place is whatever you wish it to be, it wont be the same for anyone."  And with that it vanished.  I kept walking and could see a sparkling pool of water, this intrigued me so I went towards it.  I thought it would get bigger the neared I got but it stayed the same size.  I looked into it but couldn't see anything, this wasn't normal water!  I leaned abit further to see more closely and as I did I was pulled into it, but I wasn't wet as I expected.

All around me was swirls of purple and as I started to spin panic took over.  I wanted to get out of here and back to the flowers.  Before I knew it I was stood back beside the now closed door and the sea of purple flowers was infront of me.  This sure was a strange place, i'm not sure if its real or just my imagination.