During our Monday afternoon session a couple of boxes were delivered from the museum, some items from the past that we would find in homes. However the museum had mixed them up with the lost property and some things were new. We sorted the new items and the items from the past. We talked about the different materials used to make them.
During the afternoon we had the opportunity to explore these items:
-we played a guessing game about what some of the items would have been used for: some guessed that the bed warming pan was for cooking, some guessed that the toasting fork was used for hunting. We revealed the real uses for them at the end of the day.
-We practised polishing brass
-We set up our home corner as a home from the past and got rid of all the items that were from now.
-We drew items that were from our homes now and also items from the past.