Day #281 Owls in a tree

Monday

When I first got to school I worked with class 1 on making christmas handprints in salt dough. I thought that salt dough would be a grate substitute for clay because you can make just about anything with it and you can leave it in the sun t dry. Wasting gas for your stove or adding to your electricity bill is a big no no down here. So any ways I had the kids mix up the ingredients, all put the recipe at the bottom. Then they rolled out their own dough. When they where done I had them mix together different colors and they dipped their hands into the paint and then placed it on the dough. I think that they loved it. Getting messy was always something I like to do when I was young. Ask my grandma and grandpa about my mud pie making kitchen outside, or the mud pit I dug and sat in. Thank goodness the teacher in level one does not mind when the kids get dirty or the classroom.          

After brake I worked with class level 2, we worked on paper owls in a tree. I took a lot of time and did a mock up and traced out all of the pieces. All the kids had to do was follow my instructions and glue down the pieces where I told them to. It worked out good an all of the owls in a tree turned out. We had some tim after the owls so we worked on Blues clues slippery soap coloring sheets. Slippery soap is a character from blues clues. they just colored it and then we cut them out.  

After school I went to the Peace corps office to drop off my phone bill money and I ended up having a meeting with boss. It was a productive meeting and much worth the time that I spent talking to him. I find him to not be the easiest person to talk to some times and I think this is due to cultural differences, but some times he can be helpful, like this time.  

When I got home it was time for bottles, your going to be herring a lot about that in my up coming blog entries but thats because I have so many to do I will be spending a lot of time on it.

Salt Clay
1 cup salt
2 cups flower
3/4 cup water

I dont like to use that much water its hard to work with when it is to wet.