It was national poetry day, as Caroline and Nicky reminded us. So we combined this with our home work, words beginning with ART, inspired by an artichoke or a drawing of an artichoke, which was done by Gill – see below.
- I wanna to be your vacume cleaner breathing in your dust/
- Michael Laskey FART
Caroline reading one of her poems – in the beginning man said….
A glorious rendition of a Hungarian poem by Andrew – with cockerel in background
We went in search of galls, plentiful by the pond, where an English Pendunculate Oak meets a Turkish oak. From this (collective noun for many Galls) knobble of knopper galls we selected one, and came back to draw and explore this extraordinary shape, a chemical reaction.
HOMEWORK: The life cycle of an oak gall, types of Oak Gall.
Kinda Elders in the woods 