PIzza Base Giant snowflakes begin their 'rain' of terror!

As usual,here's my waffly preamble to the main point. Ignore as you please or read along!

I had my first teaching observation of the year today. We get them every term.  It doesn't matter how many times you are observed, there are so many unknowns with teaching children- rain, wind, problems at home, arguments and conflict from lunchtime/playtime in the playground, you never know how they will react.  Luckily for me, I have my darling year 6 class who I have been observed with once every year since year 2- they even cheer now when I tell them they are going to be observed because they know they impress people.  They've had a consistent record of making Outstanding progress and that has SO much to do with their own motivation and skills rather than my teaching.  Today was no exception- they are so motivated in music and they worked hard, thought hard and did really well, thus making 'outstanding progress'.  Phew!  They do know they are my favourite class though- which I think helps as they want to please me! It makes me really sad that they will leave at the end of this year because I have already taught them for 7 years and it will be 8 years at the end of this year- that's probably longer than any other teacher in their life will consistently teach them for.  I've taught them for almost a quarter of my OWN life!! That's a bit scary!!!!

So, I like to recycle things to make art.  I've despaired over what to do with those polystyrene Pizza bases for years- I have one idea which I haven't tried yet. This week, as we had bought 3 pizzas, we had three bases and I decided that I would like to put some giant snowflakes up, hanging from the ceiling in the music room.

So...
1. Find pizza bases
2.  Fetch craft/stanley knife, metal ruler and cutting mat.
3.  Draw a dot in the centre and draw 6 equally-spaced lines radiating from the centre.  Then draw snowflake shapes around these.
4.  Cut around these using a craft knife and ruler.

I should warn you, the polystyrene did NOT take kindly to being cut and flaked off unevenly where I cut. I almost gave up.CBC laughed and said to bin it when he heard me whinging from the kitchen but when he came out, he said,"No, keep going, it looks good all flaky, like snow really is!"

So I did.

 And here is the finished article!

 Not so bad from a distance.

 Slightly ropey up close....

 But when I hang them from the music room ceiling, I am sure that they will be great!

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P.S.
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