Topic - Welcome to our Cafe....

Welcome to our new Cafe! We have been busy making menus and thinking about what we need inside the cafe. We have tables and chairs, food, a till, a cooker, a microwave, aprons and chef hats... and even a place to wash up! 

Making Pasta!

We had a great time making Pasta today! We had some interesting suggestions for what we thought the ingredients of pasta were, and then we found out there were only 2 ingredients... flour and eggs! Simple! We worked in groups to mix, knead, roll and cut the pasta and then Mrs Gibson boiled the pasta in boiling water. We added a bolognese sauce and then we tried out our creation! 

It was DELICIOUS! 

Topic - Where in the World?

When we first thought about what we wanted to learn about in our topic, lots of people wanted to know where food comes from and how it is made, so this week we will be answering some of these questions! We will look at where different fruits come from around the world using a world map and an atlas. On Tuesday, after some very interesting ideas about where pasta comes from, we will be having a go at making our own! On Friday we will be playing with food! We are going to make faces out of a variety of foods, sketch them, and then work on mixing paints to make the right colours to paint them! There is a great game here to inspire you...

 Funny Food Faces

Numeracy - money money money....

In Numeracy this week we will be learning more about money! We will be using our knowledge of adding up and taking away to help solve money problems. We will be working out the price of items when they are 'half price' and adding up the total cost if we want to buy more than one thing! We will be reminding ourselves of all the different coins and how much they are worth and how we can use them to pay for things. This will be really useful in our new role play cafe!

You could practise at home too... try making some price labels for your toys and pretend to buy them!

Literacy - Learning about Play-scripts...

In Literacy we will be learning about play-scripts! We are going to be looking closely at the story of Chicken Licken and seeing if we can create our very own play script! We will also be supporting this learning in our guided reading sessions. There are lots of examples of play scripts here... Play scripts. There are lots of different versions of the story, here is a video you might like to watch.  

Topic - How do plants grow?

In topic last week we looked at how plants grow and what they need to grow. We have set up our own experiments in class to see what plants need to grow. Each group has their own instructions to follow to see what happens. Some groups have hidden their beans in dark cupboards, some aren't watering their bean and some people have used sand instead of soil! We have made predictions about what we think will happen (..and why) and we are now waiting to see what happens!

On Friday afternoon we worked together to create a display to remind ourselves about the different stages of plant growth. We just need to label it now!

RE - Visit to the Church...

We had a lovely visit to the local church on Wednesday. The sun was shining and we all enjoyed our walk through the meadow. We took our sketch books with us and drew some great pictures of parts of the church we found interesting. The church warden showed us around and answered all of the questions we had thought about in class. A very big thank you to all those who came to help us with our trip - we hope you enjoyed yourselves too!