Tuesday, 17 March 2009

Greek?

The letters in Octavia's room have been busy. The other morning while she was at Mrs. Mac's I took a look and though perhaps Greek will be her second language. And here's a close-up:



However, when I collected her from Mrs. Mac's, I saw that the unit on sheep continues. Though there ain't much room for creativity in this particular lesson, I find it somehow comforting that sheep and wool get a whole unit in this preschool. Mrs. Mac is old-school. Even if kids are buying their jumpers (that's sweaters for the North Americans among us) at Dunnes Stores, they should know that the Irish/British way is to give a sheep a haircut, comb it, spin it, and knit it. In fact, they have knit-offs in some places where a group of craftspeople will attempt "sheep to shoulders" in a day! And some succeed. I think even some Greeks could do this if they tried.

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Tiff said...

As I was flipping TV channels this morning, looking for the weather, I saw that QVC was selling Aran Sweaters with little Irish men from the island on set.