One of the purposes of handwork is to teach children patience and perseverance on long term projects. However, as this is so hard for some children, I will also include in my planning, smaller projects which link to the season and to the materials that we are working with. This acorn necklace on the rhythmofthehome website may be one such project. Collecting the acorn cups will be a lovely bridging activity for the children as it was the kind of the thing that they did in Kindergarten. Also, they can use the acorns themselves for counting with in their main classes.
A later addition that I found for our finger rhymes is this little poem
In small green cup an acorn grew,
On tall and stately oak.
The spreading leaves, the secret knew,
And hid it like a cloak.
The breezes rocked it tenderly,
The sunbeams whispered low,
“Some day the smallest acorn here,
Will make an oak, you know.”
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