Mandalas with natural materials

Poems

From Puteaux in France

From a famous poem in French : Le printemps.

The beginning is something like :

The weather has taken off its coat

Of wind, cold and rain

And has put on a cloth of embroidery

and gleaming and clear sunshine.

We're learning the beginning of the Portuguese poem you send us (but in English). We will try the Latvian one.

We are Working on an illustration of one of the French poem about spring. I hope I will be able to sort out my "pages" problem by Wednesday in order to send it to you in poem section.

Easter traditions

Easter

For most of us in France, Easter means chocolate. We offer chocolate hens, eggs, fishes, bunnies, etc... to children (and even adults). We organise eggs' hunts. We hide chocolate eggs in garden, or in flats, or in public gardens and children have to find them.

See bellow the chocolate in a shop (not in an house, it would be too much !)

Spring crafts

1st April

The first of April is the day for fishes in the back of people and for jokes (we call those jokes "fishes of April"). Even on TV, newspapers, radio, there are "fishes of April"). For the jokes, we have to argue to make them true. My pupils believed it was the 32 of March because I gave them a long explanation.

Green classroom

We have tried to seed a lot of differents seeds in February. Some pupils really take care of them. But we've just had 3 of them growing.