CAAAAKEE!!! :D

[fireheart]

Quoth Jay 2K Winger

Stop trying to burst our bubble. It's funnier our way.

Believe me, I'm sure the kids would love it if I had the puppets in class

[AccountingDrone]

Quoth fireheart

-For 2 hours or so every morning, students undertake a Main Lesson, which can be either English/Literacy, Maths, Science or History/Geography. This is a topic that is studied in intense detail and is then integrated into other subjects (so for example, a Main Lesson topic might be studying about Vikings, so students might do naalbinding as part of their craft class and learn how to cook a Viking meal and so on). The topics are very set in their Year Levels. The students each make a "textbook" of sorts about their Main Lesson topic.

If you need help working food into lessons, I have resources for medieval and rennaissance europe, medieval persian and 12th century chinese as used in the Mongolian court. I can rummage about for simple meals that are able to be made with children. If you have the time, Stefan's Florelegeium is great s it is around 20 years of the proceedings of various SCA usenet and email lists on a wide ranging bunch of subjects. [and it is internally searchable]

[Divra]

Quoth fireheart

que?

You don't play BattleTech?!

Okay. One of the great powers in the BattleTech-verse is the Lyran Commonwealth, whose leaders are the House Steiner. Their arch-enemies are the Draconis Combine, led by House Kurita. House Kurita's symbol is a dragon.

[ralerin]

Quoth fireheart

So they've started a new term with some good news: one of the teachers is now a daddy! He has a daughter with the name Yemaya (I THINK it's pronounced Yeh-MAY-ah). I can't wait to see photos!

Oooh, named after the Yoruban/Santerean (sp) goddess of the ocean and salt waters! Awesome!

[fireheart]

Quoth ralerin

Oooh, named after the Yoruban/Santerean (sp) goddess of the ocean and salt waters! Awesome!

Yep. I got to see some photos the other day: her eyes are HUGE.

There's also a custom that is REALLY awesome (and may be a custom I might pick up if I end up at a small primary school) among Waldorf schools, which is that when a new baby is born to a family that's at a Waldorf school, they will give them a baby quilt made by members of the community. It might be the whole community, or it'll be just the class in question. Usually it's knitted squares.

[wolfie]

Quoth Divra

You don't play BattleTech?!

Okay. One of the great powers in the BattleTech-verse is the Lyran Commonwealth, whose leaders are the House Steiner. Their arch-enemies are the Draconis Combine, led by House Kurita. House Kurita's symbol is a dragon.

With the other Inner Sphere powers being the Federated Suns/House Davion, Free Worlds League/House Marik, and Capellan Confederation/House Liao. Then there are the Clans, who have their own internal squabbles in addition to attacking anyone from the Inner Sphere