May 11th 2015 - Making underpants (for a parrot)
Yes you read that right I am making underpants for a parrot! Not a real one but a hand puppet, well it was bought as a wash mitt/flannel, but wont be by the time I have finished with it. This is linked to the story sack I am making at family learning at the school. The book Pirates love underpants has a parrot in it as well as the monkey.
My kids don't know about the parrot puppet, they have seen most bits that are going in the story sack but I have kept the parrot from them as well as few other bits. I used this underpant template as the basic idea to make them, but the parrot in the book has shorts as underpants so I had to alter the shape to make them work.
I have sat and stitched the underpants and then stitched them to the puppet. I plan to add feather to it at the school on wednesday to make it look better.
I think my kids are safe in the knowledge that I wont be starting to make their underpants as it's not that easy!!! LOL!
Showing posts with label story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label story. Show all posts
Monday, 11 May 2015
Monday, 4 May 2015
May 4th 2015 - Matching pairs game
May 4th 2015 - Matching pairs game
As part of my Story Sack for family learning I have made an Underpants matching pairs game. The idea was from the link which is linked to the Aliens love underpants book.
Rather than using that 1 I went on the net and found loads of bright, colourful,patterned underpants and put them in a grid so that I can cut them out and laminate them. I then realised that the images could be seen through the A4 white paper so I printed out the image from the cover of the book in the same size grid and stuck them to the back of the pants - making them non-visable.
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There are a total of 24 pairs of underpants that I have made for the game, and they will be going in a mini bag to keep them safe and together.
As part of my Story Sack for family learning I have made an Underpants matching pairs game. The idea was from the link which is linked to the Aliens love underpants book.
Rather than using that 1 I went on the net and found loads of bright, colourful,patterned underpants and put them in a grid so that I can cut them out and laminate them. I then realised that the images could be seen through the A4 white paper so I printed out the image from the cover of the book in the same size grid and stuck them to the back of the pants - making them non-visable.
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There are a total of 24 pairs of underpants that I have made for the game, and they will be going in a mini bag to keep them safe and together.
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
April 22nd 2015 - Family Learning Story sacks
April 22nd 2015 - Family Learning Story sacks
Family Learning at the school has started a new course today - Story sacks. This envolves us parents making a story sack based on a book.
We sat and discussed ideas that we could put in 1 based on a story about night pirates and included things like a pirate hat and eye patch, treasure chest and treasure, story book, fact book, map, material for the sea, moon and stars, a boat or ship, pirate puppets/finger puppets, pirate toys etc.
By next wednesday we need to have a story book and some ideas of what we are going to include in it. Having 2 children at the school that did the last course with me I have got to decide if i'm making 1 between them (but as different ages this could be hard), or if i'm going to make 2 which means that they may not be as good as just 1.
I think this course could turn out to be really good.
Family Learning at the school has started a new course today - Story sacks. This envolves us parents making a story sack based on a book.
We sat and discussed ideas that we could put in 1 based on a story about night pirates and included things like a pirate hat and eye patch, treasure chest and treasure, story book, fact book, map, material for the sea, moon and stars, a boat or ship, pirate puppets/finger puppets, pirate toys etc.
By next wednesday we need to have a story book and some ideas of what we are going to include in it. Having 2 children at the school that did the last course with me I have got to decide if i'm making 1 between them (but as different ages this could be hard), or if i'm going to make 2 which means that they may not be as good as just 1.
I think this course could turn out to be really good.
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
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.
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.
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
February 11th 2015 - Story Mountains at Family learning
February 11th 2015 - Story Mountains at family learning
Today is wednesday, that means that its the day I go to school again. I wasn't able to attend last wednesday as I had a meeting with St John Ambulance and hubby couldn't go in my place as we had a child off school ill with chest infection and asthma.
During today's session we were talking about story's, not just those read from books but those that you make up as you go along, those that have been told to you by family members, stories that have happened to family members etc. And after we had been told the story of the monkey that lived in a Jarmun (jaaa-moon) tree that tricked a crocdile we were asked to fill out story mountain sheets.
A few of the younger mums had heard of them and even remembered doing them at school, whillst myself and the rest of the older parents (some are older than me) had not seen them before, so it was a whole new ball game for us. We all got the idea and filled them out.
We also did a "if you hold the toy you can talk" thing, but with this we had to each re-tell part of the story we had been told (again about the monkey and the crocodile). It didn't matter if we altered it slightly or got bits in the wrong order. I volunteered to go first - Once upon a time a little brown monkey lived high up in a Jarmun tree..... (I got the easy part!)
Again was a good day and the kids came in and joined us and again a story was read to them, this story was a true story about a boy and his green trousers and how he made a friend for life when they became to small for him, and they have a piece of homework to do linked to it - drawing the pictures about the story.
Today is wednesday, that means that its the day I go to school again. I wasn't able to attend last wednesday as I had a meeting with St John Ambulance and hubby couldn't go in my place as we had a child off school ill with chest infection and asthma.
During today's session we were talking about story's, not just those read from books but those that you make up as you go along, those that have been told to you by family members, stories that have happened to family members etc. And after we had been told the story of the monkey that lived in a Jarmun (jaaa-moon) tree that tricked a crocdile we were asked to fill out story mountain sheets.
A few of the younger mums had heard of them and even remembered doing them at school, whillst myself and the rest of the older parents (some are older than me) had not seen them before, so it was a whole new ball game for us. We all got the idea and filled them out.
We also did a "if you hold the toy you can talk" thing, but with this we had to each re-tell part of the story we had been told (again about the monkey and the crocodile). It didn't matter if we altered it slightly or got bits in the wrong order. I volunteered to go first - Once upon a time a little brown monkey lived high up in a Jarmun tree..... (I got the easy part!)
Again was a good day and the kids came in and joined us and again a story was read to them, this story was a true story about a boy and his green trousers and how he made a friend for life when they became to small for him, and they have a piece of homework to do linked to it - drawing the pictures about the story.
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