Finger Knitting and Earth hour

The girls have learnt how to finger knit in the last week or so. Well really they learnt how to do it in one afternoon. I taught Lucy and she taught Emily. How cute, a  three year old teaching a six year old! It all came about as i sat knitting the cardigan i started got myself in August! Lucy really, really wanted to join in. "i want to knit mummy" I think that as i have only just learnt how to do it at the age of 33, she might be just a little too small. It is however something i would like her to learn how to do.

Anyway i had been thinking about teaching them to finger knit for a while and we had a go, curtisy of Youtube!! Ha!Good old You tube, you really can learn to do almost anythin on there! Anyway Lucy picked it up really quickly. She is a maker, just like her mummy and her sister.

Both girls quickly learnt how to do it and made scalves. They even did it one day on the way to school!!

 Last Saturday was Earth hour - http://www.earthhour.org/ This means that across the country people, families and businesses joined together to turn off their lights, and all other forms of electricity. In school we held our own earth hour by turning off all electricity in our classrooms for one hour to really show the children how much electricity we use and waste. They loved it, how weird it is to be  a classroom these days with the computer and interactive whiteboard turned off!! Mad! Each of the children in KS1 went home with a jam jar lantern. Oh yes I wired 160 Jam jars that week! Now thats recycling for you!!

 At home we on Saturday we turned off all our electricity including the lights and lit many candles. The girls loved having a candlelit bath and a story read by candle light. There really is something about candles isnt there. Takes you back to how life was before electricity and makes you wonder how our lives have changed.

Tonight i am revelling in the thought that i now have two weeks off!! oh how i need those two weeks to refresh and replenish before the prospect of SATS and possible Ofsted! Yay - go my life!