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Another lovely session making peace doves for International Peace Day, an air of calm and peace prevailed (possibly due to the increased number of girls!). After a very calm and orderly circle time, we played a great game called Giants – Elves – Wizards which was learnt really quickly given that it took Alex and I a fair while to work out who beat who:
- Giants growl/roar beat their chest and take huge steps…. if faced with Elves they squish them (Giants win)
- Wizards point and cast spells “k-pow” “zing” and jump…. if faced with Giants they cast spells on them and the Giants shrink (Wizards win)
- Elves use hands to make pointy ears, go “eek” a lot and walk squat fashion to make themselves little…. if faced with Wizards they shoot an arrow and Wizards clutch their hearts (Elves win).
We sang our Seahorses song and Alex spiced up ‘She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain’ on guitar. Laura led some dove making and we massacred a feather pillow just to be authentic like (it’s now being composted by the way which feels right) and Paula told a story about a feather pillow with a small but perfectly placed message about not saying bad things about poeple! Aaah, big sigh… Thanks to all.
Check out http://www.worldpeace.org/peaceday.html.
Oh I know what you’re thinking, blogging is so 2007 but hey, it’s a record of what we do and apparently some of the kids like reading it (check out the volcano explosion YouTube entry from last term for example) and it’s like a virtual community, man.
We started back last week and made swishy ribbon willow stick twirly-abouty things which went down well, Paula murdered the Sparkling Seahorses song on the guitar but words were learnt by new folk and sack racing fun was had by all.
This week a pirate visited us, a real live one (one of the kids asked if he wore pants during his story of the pantless pirate), we’ll have to ask him… He told us pirate tales, made treasure maps with us and sang us the okey kokey with a piratical twist.
Talkin’ of pirate nonsense: Don’t forget, Llandoger Trow in King Street Friday night for the International Talk Like a Pirate night of song and rum drinkin’.
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