Salty Sam’s Fun Blog for Children
Number 543
Learning Skills
Hello Everyone
Not everything you learn in your life, you learn at school. You may learn a lot of things at school; but you do also learn things in other places too.
Throughout history, a lot of children never went to school and learnt all their skills from their parents. They would grow up to become things like: farmers, blacksmiths or carpenters.
lf they wanted to learn things like Latin and how to create illuminated manuscripts, they would have been taught these things by the Church. Some families gave their children to the Church to bring up because they were so poor they couldn’t manage to feed them and the Church would have been able to.
Did you know that historically speaking, people who lived in a place in the world that had seasons did very well at building businesses?
Their seasons could be cool and warm or wet and dry.
They had planting times and harvest times.
What having seasons taught them was that food may not always be freely available and so it was important to store it for lean times.
They learnt to save.
Having a store of money helps you build a business.
Have you got a savings account? Do you save money?
lt is a good habit to have.
lf you live in Britain, and you have trees outside your window that lose their leaves in autumn and grow them back again in spring, you will be very aware of changing seasons from the comfort of your own bedroom.
lt has also been observed that people who have tough childhoods often grow up to be strong and capable adults.
Children who keep pets will learn how to be responsible for others.
Children who go to dance classes or martial arts classes have good self-discipline.
Children who live at the top of blocks of flats have a good idea of how to read maps because they are used to looking down at the landscape from above.
Children who read lots of literature learn about human nature.
Children who play sports learn to work in teams.
Children who are very good at working on their own initiative often grow up to be good entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs are people who start and grow businesses.
Do you learn anything from your parents – grandparents – uncles – aunts – brothers – sisters – cousins?
Maybe you could ask them to spend time with you this summer holidays?
Could you learn to prick out seedlings, roll out pastry, put up a tent, swim, groom a horse, train a dog or ride a bike?
Maybe you could learn the rules of football or a playing card game or how to mow the lawn?
They may know some phrases in other languages that they can teach you.
lf you want to learn how to knit, you will be pleased to have someone show you how to knit and also help you as you struggle to practice.
Or you could play games that use numbers or words or you could test your memory by learning a set of information like all the regions of a country on a map.
The adults in your family may well love to spend golden time with you teaching things that they know and they will be golden memories you will have of being with them when you grow up.
Bye bye everyone – don’t forget to subscribe to my blog!
Love and kisses
Salty Sam
www.christina-sinclair.com
Bill and Bob’s Joke of the Week
Bob: What is the most expensive fish to buy?
Bill: A goldfish?
Salty Sam © Christina Sinclair 2015
Unauthorized use and/or duplication of material from this blog without express and written permission from this blog’s author and owner is strictly prohibited.
Links may be used to www.christina-sinclair.com
Picture Gallery
Monk at a writing desk
Decorated letter
THE SALTY SAM NEWS DESK
When you want to start a new skill, it is a good idea to start with a really simple or small project to begin practising your skills.
Then you can build up slowly to do more complicated projects. Take one step at a time.
If you start to do a massive and difficult project and it all gets too much for you, you may put yourself off wanting to try anything like that again.
Starting small and being successful is the way to build up confidence in your abilities.
Emily wanted to try making a throw for her dolls’ house this week.
She wanted a throw that her dolls could use in the living room to snuggle under on a chilly evening.
The moss stitch helps to allow the item to lie flat.
Moss stitch is not difficult when you get into a rhythm but it is not suitable for a knitting newbie.
But making a very small uncomplicated article is a good place to start when you want to learn how to knit more complicated stitches.
You could make the blanket bigger for a larger doll or a teddy.
*********************
TO ADVERTISE ON THIS BLOG
PLEASE CONTACT:
christina.sinclair.ads@aol.co.uk
*********************
Quick Quiz
What do people playing these sports use to hit a ball or something similar with?
- golf
- soccer
- cricket
- tennis
- hockey
- snooker
- badminton
- rugby
- volley ball
- ice hockey
lt’s the Weekend!
HOW TO MAKE A DOLLS’HOUSE THROW
Here is the pattern Emily used.
Using 4mm knitting needles and green dk yarn cast on 23 stitches
Knit 2 rows of garter stitch
Knit 28 rows of moss stitch
(That is slip 1, [knit 1, purl 1] repeat last 2 stitches to the end of the row)
Purl 1 row
Purl 1 row
Cast off purl-wise
Please note that the material on this blog is for personal use and for use in classrooms only.
It is a copyright infringement and, therefore, illegal under international law to sell items made with these patterns.
Use of the toys and projects is at your own risk.
©Christina Sinclair Designs 2015
Quick Quiz Answers
- golf – club
- soccer – foot
- cricket – bat
- tennis – racquet
- hockey – stick
- snooker – cue
- badminton – racquet and shuttlecock
- rugby – foot
- volley ball – hand
- ice hockey – stick and puck
