Rambling

I have been thinking rambling thoughts today while I was at home rather than school. I thought about how many acronyms I have to remember and can't. I can't even remember them to list them here. Then about how things in education are always changing so fast and I more often than not don't feel I can keep up. So I did some internet research on the curriculum review that has been going on over the last year(?) or so. I am not much the wiser, though I did print out some gumpf for later when I feel less fuzzy headed. (I need to do all this because I am the art coordinator and have to do some work with this soon that I don't exactly know how to do. I am ok on my age group generally!)

Then I thought about children's rhymes that are about illness and disaster-kids seem to like that kind of rhyme. They are often so good at role play games where they have to rescue each other or where they need to call the doctor. There is the other extreme of the baby doll being kicked around like a football which I would rather not think about at the moment!

They called for the doctor, the doctor said, no more jumping, jumping on the bed.

Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick, sick, sick, so she called for the doctor to come quick, quick, quick.

Ring a ring a roses, a pocket full of posies (tissues came to mind first!) A tishoo, a tishoo we all fall down.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

London's burning.

Dr Foster went to Gloucester, all in a shower of rain. He fell in a puddle, right up to his middle and never went there again.

Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home. Your house is on fire, your children are gone. Who wrote that one? It is just too tragic.

I have no pictures of any of this-but have of some other random things. Lovely pastels that look like eyeshadow and are applied with a cotton ball and a crocodile clip. I have been looking at these for a while and am glad I finally bought some. I have a drawing coloured slightly with them-not particularly illustrative of their use but all I have.

Pinch Punch...

...First day of the month. These lines always come into my head on the first day of every month. I think someone I was at school with used to follow this with her friends-not friendly at all I know. The sunflowers are beautifully dying. They can stay up as long as they will last and then drop their seeds for next year's crop.

Humpty Dumpty wishes you a happy Fall! As you can see by his face. I like the rhyme of Humpty Dumpty and looked it up on Wikipedia to see where it came from. One of the meanings is short clumsy person. It is not stated that the character is an egg, but it is thought that the rhyme was a riddle and you had to guess that he was an egg. He also could have been Richard the Third the 'hunchbacked egg' (from Shakespeare) Have you heard this version?

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,

Eating green bananas.

Where do you think he put the skins?

Down the King's pajama's

I have lit the fire for the first time this autumn. I did it for Tiger really-she loves the fire! Our old cat Boris used to lie in front of the old gas fire in the flat we lived in, and give it the look of love. The only other thing (person) that got the look of love was my Mum, who I think used to really spoil her when she went to stay!

It is only gas but it looks so real! It is one of the things that made us buy this flat.

When I started my little photo shoot tonight, Humpty was intact, apart from the already broken arm he had. This is what happened:-

Humpty Dumpty sat on the step,

To have his photo taken.

The step got moved and he fell off.

Now he is all broken.

By me-a tall clumsy person! Poor Humpty, I will have to get the superglue out later!