Yesterday, Caiden and I baked bread. We are busy with a new poetry block at the moment and the poem we are working on is called ‘Bread Making’ by Edith L.M. King. The peom is from my poetry book that I used in primary school, titled ‘Chosen for You, a Book of Poems for South African Children’ He really enjoyed baking his bread and it turned out beautifull, I am so proud of him and I could see that he was really proud of himself too:)
Bread Making
Mother’s kneading, kneading dough,
In and out her knuckles go;
Till the sticky, shapeless lump
Grows a pillow, smooth and plump.
Then she cuts it, pops it in
To the neatly buttered tin,
Leaves it rising, higher and higher,
While she goes to make the fire,
How the glad flames leap and roar,
Through the open oven-door;
Till their hot breath, as they play,
Makes us wink and run away.
When they’re burnt to embers red,
Mother shovels in the bread;
And that warm delicious smell
Tells her it is baking well.
When it’s golden, just like wheat,
We shall get a crust to eat;
How I wish we could be fed
Every day on new-made bread!
So sweet…
Caiden is going to memorise this poem and write it into his language book and we will no doubt be making lots of fresh bread!
We used the wonderful bread recipe called ‘Very Easy Bread Recipe’ from ‘The Waldorf Kindergarten Snack Book’ such a lovely recipe book.
Sneak peek below:
This is a new pattern I have designed today, it is for an Autumn English Oak Tree leaf. I will be sharing the pattern with you tomorrow:)
Have a wonderful Saturday…
xo Linda
My precious girls were walking around the garden taking photos of some of our plants that are in bloom…
These Vinkas grow in the windowbox just outside my kitchen door, they are so pretty and flower continuously and self seed too, I love that we planted them there.
Kye and I built a tent today with colourful playcloths, he loves tents…
Jen is busy knitting fingerless gloves in naturally dyed wool… She just loves the fact that this wool has been hand dyed with plants…
