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By Linda on August 26, 2009 in Knitting, Maths, Shop, Toy Shows

It is hard to believe that it is almost the end of August! Next month is a birthday month for us so it is going to be rather busy… We have all been busy with projects here…

Erin has finished knitting her hand warmers, they are so incredibly warm and she is very happy with them, I think I must knit a pair! The pattern is from Carle’ at http://www.ourholisticlife.blogspot.com/

Jen is also knitting a pair and I will blog them as soon as they are finished.

I have been spinning and found out how to do this amazing spinning technique! It is called the Navajo Technique. You take a single thread of yarn on a spinning wheel and you spin it into a three ply yarn, it is really fun and pretty.

I know my picture is on its side but for some reason it will not turn around, but you can see one strand over my index and middle finger and I pull it through and it turns into 3 strands! Here is the link with a video to show you how: http://www.joyofhandspinning.com/spin-navajo-ply.shtml it is really fun!

And here it is, the top skein, can you see the 3 ply? Underneath, I spun some Angora fiber from Angora rabbit fur, that took some getting used to but now I think I have got it.

Factor Jars for Maths:

This is our factor jar for maths, Erin wrote out numbers from 1 – 100 on small pieces of paper ( one number on each piece of paper) and placed them in a glass jar. Every morining when we have school Jenna and Erin each take turns choosing numbers from the jar and see how many factors can fit into that number and then they decide if they are prime numbers (only the factors of 1 and itself can fit into that number) or composite numbers (quite a few factors fit into that number) they really enjoy this…

SARCDA Show!

I few months ago I was contacted by a wonderful woman, who wanted to exhibit my knitted toys at South Africa’s beautiful SARCDA Christmas Toy Show at Gallagher Estates in Midrand. Toys are exhibited for Christmas and buyers from shops come from all over the country and overseas as well to see these toys and other products that are for sale and place orders for their shops. I feel very honoured to have been included and thank you so much Jeanine, you are a wonderful and generous person! I am so happy to have met you!

Richard and I drove through to the show on Saturday to meet this lovely person who was exhibiting my knitted toys and to see the show. It was wonderful and thank you Jeanine for all the sales and shops you have put me in contact with! I am most grateful!

Here are some of my knitted treasures that were chosen to go to the show and they will soon be on their way to their new homes around South Africa 🙂

Have a wonderful week everyone…

Warmly

Linda

Weeks Work

By Linda on April 10, 2008 in Grade 1, Maths

This week I decided to start maths with Caiden my six and a half year old, he is busy learning his numbers, today we did number 3 and while he was drawing the picture of the number three, I started telling him the Story of the Maths Gnomes. It was like a light went on he just loved it. We spoke about the King and how he had gnomes called Times, Minus, Add and Divide and how they collected gem stones for him. It was really a lovely story, it comes out of Dorothy Harrer’s maths book. Now all I need to do is make the gnomes, he can’t wait! Today Jenna learnt about photosynthesis, we also did a drawing of a plant explaining how the process works, I’ve got some lovely drawings off of Melisa Neilson’s Fith Grade cd that comes with her book, the cd is full of pictures for the fith year and it great! Jenna also made a Sun Tea, we have finished our Botany block but for this week we are doing some practical work related to botany. We filled up a jar with water, a peanut butter sized jar and put quite a lot of mint in it. Put it in the sun all day and at the end of the day you have a jar of hot mint tea. Lovely with honey!

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