Economic growth

[Two_Sheds]

At the risk of being 'patronising'

Can we all just stop, now?
Play nicely

[Two_Sheds]

I haven't got the qualifications to work with young children.

You don't need any. As Sarz says, you just need enthusiasm and patience. The school can get your CRB certificate, and a teacher would be with you to do crowd control.
You don't need any kind of lesson plan, just a vague idea. My kids prefer to be outside even in the rain, and they don't really care what they do either, but I always have a couple of jobs indoor & out, for each week. They do whatever I would be doing at home, whether that's sowing seeds or potting on.
Favourite activities so far have been bean podding, frog hunting, garlic planting and leaf collecting (I take a sack of leaves in, throw them on the ground and they sweep them up again, they loved it!
This week we threaded monkey nuts onto ribbon and hung them from the trees.

I used to get a bit upset when they dropped or wasted my carefully saved seeds, so now I have a school tin of spare seeds, things like sunflowers. I take that in with a bucket of compost and they sow seeds. When they've gone home, I tip it all back into the bucket and they do it again another week !
In good Blue Peter fashion, I have seedlings at home which are planted into the school beds. It's hopeless trying to raise plants at school because nobody remembers to water them when I'm not there.

I don't take it too seriously I just let them make a bit of mess and have fun outside. They're very urban kids and can't identify most fruit & veg, let alone wildlife, so this is a good opportunity to connect them to the land, like.

I recommend it, it's very energising to work with little minds, they do make me laff.

[singleseeder]

Two Sheds, I like your style.

This spring I sowed some runner beans in pots a couple of weeks before my 2yr old granddaughter sowed some in identical pots. It is amazing how excited she was when she visited a few days later and 'her' beans had leaves!

Well, even I have been known to scrape the compost back to see if seeds have germinated.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Oh goody goody I thought I was the only one to scrape back top cover to look for signs of activity.

I don't feel so wierd now.

Colin

[Snadger]

How old are you zazen?

Don't let that rather becoming green mini skirt outfit fool you!

[snohare]

I don't feel so wierd now.

Never fear, you are weird - or at least your spelling is !

Speaking of which (ie weird), did you ever hear of the two dentists who hated doing fillings, but couldn't manage without the work it gave them ?
They amalgamated...
Sorry, couldn't resist...wait for my Xmas jokes !

[horticultural_hobbit]

Being hobbit sized and barely scraping five foot; I would classify myself economic growth. I'm petite but potent, and best utilised in small doses. And, from small acorns mighty oaks grow. All good things come in small packages. You get the idea...

[veggiechicken]

If those dentists did braces they wouldn't be weird but wired.

[Snadger]

If those dentists did braces they wouldn't be weird but wired.

My word, the weird wiring would worry the wary making em weary of wasting wonga................

[snohare]

...yes, but the drilling would be a little bit boring.

All good things come in small packages.

Yes, that's what my mum says. (Never more than about five feet tall, and has shrunk with age.) Of course we tell her to packet in. There's economical with growth, and there's economical with the truth...and there's politicians, where stooping so low is a tall order !