This morning we read a story called The Troll by Julia Donaldson. In the story the troll likes to cook and eat goat but he can never catch any on top of the bridges. He finds a treasure chest filled with gold, little does he know there are pirates in search of this treasure…the boys loved the humour in this story and the ending.
We decided to write a nice fish recipe for the pirates as they are all rubbish cooks! Here is our recipe below.
Today, we had a fantastic time when Howie Pitman, the Dean Park Ranger came to talk to us about Dams, Flooding and creatures we might find in the River Afton.
Here are some pictures of the experiment we carried out measuring which material; big rocks, small rocks or sand was the best to hold back water. We talked about giving some advice to the men building the flood defences at the river just now :0
Here was the time it took the water to go through the big black rocks…
the small rocks..
the sand…
and then the sock i.e. makeshift sandbag…
Today we were using our literacy and numeracy skills to read a recipe and measure quantities whilst making pancakes.
This morning we were learning about American brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright. These brothers were responsible for inventing the first ever aeroplane. The picture below shows the timeline of flight and the boys were able to answer questions about what we learned.
Sensory Time
During our sensory time, we tried out a new substance similar to Playdough. It was called Mad Matter!
We wanted to know the difference between Playdough and Mad Matter. We listened really carefully to the words (adjectives) each person used to describe the new substance. Here are some we came up with; sandy, soft, rough, smooth and crumbly. We noticed Mad Matter changes when the heat of your hands bring it all together!
Here we are using utensils to roll and squeeze the playdough into different shapes.
Mrs Bradford joined us and she managed to make some slugs using the Mad Matter 🙂
Today we joined in and listened to author Shirley Husband telling us all about how she became an author, what her job involves and who inspires her.
Shirley read us the story of Harris McCoo and we saw how colourful and beautiful the illustrations were.
Today the boys were practising building sentences, take a look at our
work.
Well done boys! 🙂
The boys used scrabble letters to spell a few of their words this week…
Great job boys!
The boys were playing Secret Agent Spelling today to help them learn their “ie” spelling words.
Well done!
The boys in Nurture thoroughly enjoyed the new online story from The Scots Language Centre called Neeps n Tatties.
We decided to make our own Neeps and Tatties, what do you think of our creations? The boys a fun making the Neeps and Tattie people.
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