I am WAY behind with my blogging and hope to do some back-dated entries soon to catch up. I’ve finally uploaded a whole stack of photos onto shutterfly, so I’ll get onto this soon!
On Friday 29 May, we had the long awaited "Pearls of Lutra Day". It had effectively been postponed twice, so it was great to finally celebrate this book with a group of friends.
The Redwall Book Club here is always changing as some move away and others join so it was lovely to see that dynamic at play.
As usual, we started with introductions but this time, I asked the children to mention their fav part of the book. We got some interesting and hilarious answers!! Food and a naughty little Arven rated highly in the responses.
Stevie as Clecky, Zac as Rasconza, Adam as Gowja and Mark as Arven
After some indoor games, we walked down the street near the dam and had a sword tournament. One of the mums had asked for the swords to be more than decoration, so we put our thinking caps together and came up with the tournament idea. Stevie then took over and worked out all of the rounds, based on the child’s age/ability. Here’s a couple of photos from that:
The contest of the tournament. These two were locked in combat for most of the tournament until we finally had to institute "sudden death".
We only had one sword casualty, and it was Stephen’s sword that cracked in half. Most of the children survived in good humour, so that was good.
The next item on the agenda was a pearl hunt. The children were divided into groups and given clues to start them off. Following the clues in the book, they then had to find where all the other pearls would be hidden, either down by the dam or at the Burnet’s house. It was a good idea, in theory, but in the rush to get it all organised the night before, I numbered the clues incorrectly which threw everyone out. A bit of re-explanation en-route saw most groups able to continue and work out the rest of the hiding places.
We then went inside, compared notes and each group had a turn at saying the Sister Cicely tongue twister on a time limit. After this, the fav part of any Redwall Day occurred – the feast!!
The horde listening to Mrs Kirky give the wonderful food introductions…
…and of course, some quick snaps of the food on offer -
We had a lively quiz time after lunch – with chanting that has been louder than I’ve experienced before – they really got into it! Then, in the same groups as earlier, teams went out and practiced acting out a scene from the book to present to the rest of us. This was a lot of fun and there some great choices.
We had a lively quiz time after lunch – with chanting that has been louder than I’ve experienced before – they really got into it! Then, in the same groups as earlier, teams went out and practiced acting out a scene from the book to present to the rest of us. This was a lot of fun and there some great choices.
At the close, we probably shouted out the neighbourhood by doing all the war cries from the books – my ears were certainly ringing for a while!
Most took their time packing up and going home and one little Dibbun just couldn’t wait any longer for a sleep…
We had a great day and thanks go to the kitchen crew and the Burnets for hosting us. That family has been sick this week, so thanks for rising above the oncoming symptoms to have us for the day.
A special mention to some of the older ones who really helped out and my own older boys. Stephen and Zac typed out a lot of clues, the door welcome was Zac’s creation this time and Stevie organised the whole sword tournament. All these things made it easier for me and much more fun for everyone.
So, until next time………REDWALLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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