We made a healthy dairy snack today as we have been learning why dairy products are important.  We have also been finding out where and how dairy products are produced.  We worked in groups to chop and prepare a selection of fruits.  We added some low-fat natural yoghurt and then, for our favourite part, we blended it using the electric whisk. We were delighted to use this!

This lucky little chap helped Mrs Duncan with the washing up by licking out the bowl…..

We also made use of the fantastic selection of puzzles that the children had brought in to share with their friends.  They were all very eager to show their friends how their puzzles fitted together – it was lovely to see them sharing so nicely!

Last week we had great fun celebrating Easter with P1W. We went to the field and rolled our eggs.  We also had an Easter egg hunt and hunted for chocolate eggs that the Easter bunny had hidden for us.  We have been learning about the significance of these traditions.

Many of the children have been having difficulty running safely in gym recently due to the lack of Velcro left on their gym shoes.  It would appear that the gym shoes shown below have much stronger Velcro enabling the wearer to run faster and more safely.  Some of the shoes particularly those that appear to be aimed at girls have not been offering the same level of support during gym lessons, and many of the girls have to constantly stop to re-fasten their shoes. You may wish to bear this in mind if shopping during the holidays.  🙂 Children are also welcome to bring more supportive trainers to use as an indoor/gym shoe if you prefer – preferably in a dark colour.

Today we finished making our bread.  The yeast had helped the bread to rise over night.  We shaped it into small roll shaped balls and popped it on a baking tray.  Some of us took it into the kitchen and put it in the special bread oven.

In the afternoon we chose from a selection of spreads and tried our bread.  It was delicious. We were all so proud of how it had turned out! If you would like to try it at home click here for the recipe. You may wish to adjust the salt slightly – our bread turned out to be quite salty.

We looked at all the photographs on the Blog from this term and had a chat about all the activities we have been involved in.   We made a big list of all the things we had learned, our favourite activities and some things that we would like to do next term.

We have learned:

• You need to have 5 fruits and vegetables every day.  Sancha
• how to type.  Abbey
• To build dinosaurs using lego.  Enzo
• Jesus was put on a cross at Easter time.  Kian
• How to take away.  Mara
• We roll egss just like the rock in front of the cave that Jesus was in.  Alex
• How to make the sound ‘sh’.  Elodie
• 3D shapes in maths.  Aaryn
• That Jesus died at Easter.  Erin

Our favourite things this term were:

• learning about dinosaurs.  Angus
• Making food.  Emily
• getting to type dinosaur names on the computer.  Scott
• having an Easter egg hunt.  Axel
• making Easter cards at the drawing table.  Neve
• learning about Scotland.  Harry
• digging up the fossils outside.  Max
• learning about dinosaurs.  Timo

Next, we would like to:

• have an adventure in the woods.  Katie
• Go to ‘The Hub’ and have a look around.  Oliver
• learn more about bread.  Holly
• learn about electricity.  Keir
• learn more about hard lava when it’s cold.  Aila
• Go to the woods.  Ava

We have decided that our project next term should be ‘The Forest’!

Today our reading task was to follow a recipe for making bread.  This was something we had been looking forward to for a while.  We had to carefully read the recipe to make sure we were using the correct ingredients in the correct order.  We worked hard to spell trickier words and did very careful measuring.

Thank you to all of those who came to the open day last week.  The children, I am sure you will all agree, were the perfect hosts and were very eager to share their achievements with you all throughout the day.

Here is a small selection of photos from the day.