Well, at least 2 seventh graders have finished their renaissance shirt and corsette (made out of donated Tshirts!!) all hand sewn...this is wonderful, but the rest kind of lag behind...this is a special problem for handwork teachers...this was supposed to last the rest of the year....hmmm, must come up with something fun for these two, in a hurry!
Oh boy, finally dyed the tunics...I say finally because 6th grade has been waiting a veeeeerrrrrry loooooonnnng time to do these, or so they feel that! I love their enthusiasm (if I could only get that kind of enthusiasm from the 8th grade...). They voted for purple, so we dyed them and hung them to dry when it was finally sunny! This week we will begin on coats of arms and their banner. (on a side note, the 7th grade saw the tunics drying and said things like "what! how come they get purple....." How soon they forget, they voted on red unanimously last year---pretty sure purple was and option. Why is it that every grade feels the year before gets bigger and better things..it is almost school-wide, this feeling, even though they have done the exact same project the year prior...funny little people, the grass is always greener...)
I just had to put up some pictures of our 3rd grade dwellings project...they are the best I have seen yet, you can see how much time and effort they put in...I do not teach this, but I was so impressed and delighted!
Well, one student has finished her 4 needle socks! This is always a very exciting project for them to finish, and rarely do I have more than 5 that get that far! She is knitting a dress for herself now...when they finish this, I give them an option of bringing a project from home in, or I can give them another project (eg, a gnome or animal or leggings etc...).
