Weds4Ed – warhol, music, games, human reactions

Weds was a weds4ed day. FrB has now met all the children the come to it through different meetings – centerparcs holiday and skating – so building individual relationships of her own with the other kids. There are 3 families that regularly come, and another family that pops to those they can make. It was nearly full house today!

We started with kfish talking about Warhol, showing examples of his art, why he worked as he did and the impact it made. I hastily printed off a black and white photo of each child. Kfish then got them tracing over the key elements of their photos and transfering this to paper and using colour blocks. they were very effective! there was lots of talking and happiness whilst they did it too – always lovely. Art is a good starter session for mixed age groups. As always, the children had their own take of the brief.

Following this, some children played board games, and some electronic games whilst we made pasta for lunch

Following lunch we had some musicians playing together whilst some did science, and then as the musicians bowed out, they had science and the noisier ones got their minecraft fix! This time in science we had a discussion about neurons, sensory, motor and relay, their structure and jobs. We then did some experimenting to test our reaction times, and try and work out the average speed of the signalling along the neurons.

All 3 girls had judo in the evening, BB is in the younger class, so whilst she had judo, FrB and SB did some latin with me. we are using my beloved cambridge and caecilius .Clearly people in France and England don’t pronounce Latin words identically, so we have agreed to ‘roll with it’ for various things, and concentrate on learning something rather than arguing over it . The girls had judo, which FrB enjoyed, and said the kyoshi was very helpful and the group was friendly. SO all happy they watched a bit of the british sewing bee before bedtime – FrB is keen to do some sewing.

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