In Class 2 last week we celebrated the end of our Celtic Tales main lesson by making traditional Irish Soda Bread and making our own butter in a jar.  Everyone's arms got tired shaking the cream until it turned into delicious yellow butter.  We enjoyed eating soda bread, butter and jam under the peppermint trees with our teddies. 

The children enjoyed painting the Sword of Light from the King of Ireland's Son story, and drawing into these paintings with their crayons to bring out the form of the sword.  We've used our beautiful rainbow watercolour paintings to cover the King of Ireland's Son reading books the children have worked so hard to write and illustrate.

For health we have been talking about how we can be a kind and caring friend.  We read the book Have You Filled a Bucket Today?  This book uses the analogy that we all have an invisible bucket that we can help one another and ourselves to fill up or dip into, guiding valuable lessons about giving, sharing and caring.  It's a lovely book we will revisit to remind us of the benefits of positive thinking and positive behaviour and to remind us that showing kindness and appreciation of others goes a long way to making this world a happier place for everyone, including ourselves.  Some of the children after reading this book asked to pick some flowers for Tegan on their way to take a note to the office.  They came running back and joyfully announced "We just filled Tegan's bucket!"

We have started our new main lesson, this Mathematics main lesson explores the times tables, geometry and number patterns.  For this main lesson I have been writing a continuation of the King of Ireland's Son that will take us on a quest through magical lands, meeting dragons, merfolk, dwarves, fairies and deciphering Ogham writing... to uncover the magic of the times tables and number patterns.  I've enjoyed writing it and I hope the children are captured by it.  The children have been exploring the multiplication clocks and discovering the different patterns that the times tables create in a circular form.