Thought I’d share very quick note as I am near dying with laughter at just how appalling my artistic skills have become. It’s the start of another week and, as per usual, I am completing lesson plans with 25 minutes to go before I leave for school. Oop. Last minute... euhh perhaps?
At Temniac I am blessed (read – cursed) with the class from hell. Aged 7 and 8, they are absolutely charming kids but for some reason, all of them together is a nightmare. Despite being a mere 45 minutes, each class is hell; everything we do in class goes in one ear (if I’m lucky) and charges straight out of the other about 3.2 milliseconds later. Progress is but a miserable pipe-dream, so I am reduced to just doing games and songs (as advised by the bedraggled maitresse) with them as it is the only thing that they will respond to. So having completely failed with learning parts of the body last week, today I thought I’d put a more exciting spin on the lesson by taking them outside to draw outlines of their body in the playground and label each part. It’s sunny, that’ll take up some time and (fingers crossed) they might learn something. I needed a crib sheet to show them the spelling slash give them the answers as otherwise we’ll go nowhere, hence the absolutely abysmal attempt (below right) at drawing ‘the human body’. Green t-shirt and purple shorts? Suspicious ‘strawberry-blond’ hair? Hands that look as though they’ve come straight out of a Quentin Blake sketchbook? Unusually muscled arms? What the hell was I thinking? Oh dear.
At least if the lesson doesn’t work, they’ll definitely have something to giggle about!
PS As it's such a nice day I thought I'd throw these in for good measure...
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| View from my bathroom windae - back of the house/farm |
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| Chev and the view from my door.. s'haat y'all! |
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