Workers in our community

This term, Year 1 are studying workers in the community. Today they were asked to come to school dressed as the worker they want to be when they grow up.

Louka opted to be an artist and mother. She had very definite ideas of what she needed to wear: a green skirt, green t-shirt, white baby sling (with baby doll and puppy) embroidered with thread that looks like corn silk and scattered with buttons, apron splattered with paint. The green skirt turned out to be one I'd already knitted for her and she had the t-shirt too, but I had to whip up the sling and apron. Actually I made two aprons, one black and one white, for her to choose from. She had a lot of fun making them look "used".

Here she is, painting the sky:

Her teacher apparently would have preferred to be a police woman. I think she might have an over-glamourous idea of the police force.

Here is Louka's whole class. Teachers and vets were popular choices with the girls, the boys tended more towards firemen, police and sports coaches. As usual, Louka was the only one of her kind.