Burns Day

Well aren't we lucky to be Scottish and end up with Burn's Night in B week!

We had a day celebrating Robert Burns. We looked at two of his poems, tae a moose and the puddock. The first about a mouse, the second a frog (F loves frogs!). As the poems were hard for the kids to understand we took our time going over the words and figuring out which words meant what and then we took turns at making our own mouse and frog poems.

I had printed off a picture of the man himself and got them to draw him and K copied Robert Burns and his dates next to his picture. We often go on holiday near to where Burns lived so I think next time we are there we will visit all the Burns attractions.

At tea time we had the traditional Haggis, Neeps & Tatties. It was the first time they had tried Haggis and it went down well - I have to say although I eat it I have never actually looked to see what its really made of as it would probably put me off! However the kids thought the Haggis was great probably partly to do with me telling them a wee tall tale about the haggis actually being a wee animal you only get in Scotland and we all worked together coming up with how we thought a haggis mite look - we shall have to get to drawing him...maybe in H week?! ;)