My Beach Art

Posted on June 16, 2016 by squashedtomatoes

Before we leave Turkey completely, let me just show you my beach art – inspired by someone elses artwork using pebbles on the beach….

I’m quite proud 😄

English Club : Worm Farm Sketches & Sand Runs!

Posted on May 22, 2016 by squashedtomatoes

We had a mixed activity english class on Thursday. I wanted to kids to observe, sketch and write a little in English about the worm farm, using certain words…

We had observed that the worms had been busy making tunnels, and moving the earth in to the sand, and vice versa.

As we are presently looking at the element of ‘earth’, and have been looking at what the earth is made up of (having looked and explored clay, and now soil) we now moved on to sand…..

We went down to the lake, and started to attempt to make marble runs from sand…

Alfie even joined us for a bit!

The kids worked hard, but this was a really tricky task! And sadly we didn’t manage to quite get those marbles rolling down our runs!

This enabled us to talk a little about the earth’s pull, of gravity.

Of course, being by the lake, on a warm day, we couldn’t help but paddle!

Which brings us nicely in to our last element, of water! 😄

Shapes In The Sand

Posted on June 12, 2015 by squashedtomatoes

Quite simply that…

..filling up the rectangle…

…the bigger square…

…the tiny squares…

…the circle…

…and the cylinder..

Simply saying the shape names and describing the shapes is enough. Which shape made the best ‘sand castle’ ? Which was the most difficult? Was the sand too wet or too dry?
Simple, fun, and much appreciated! 😊