Today, the boys and girls have been discussing Halloween and the things associated with it.
We had a look at some pumpkins online and some we had at Cart Mill. We discussed the different shapes and colours.
After discussing the pumpkins, the children decided they wanted to make their own pumpkins, so we thought we would make some orange pumpkin playdough!
We even added in some cinnamon!
Once the playdough was made, it was time to create our own pumpkins…
Our Cart Mill children have been thoroughly enjoying our new lunch regime. We are very excited about our new lunch menu and we have been tasting lots of delicious new foods.
One our favourites is Stephanie’s super lentil soup. It is so yummy!
Pouring our own water helps us develop our measuring skills and promotes independence . We are very careful not to spill any! We are also very good at turn taking and passing the jug carefully around the table.
Sitting around the table together helps us develop our language and communication skills. We love to discuss what foods keep us healthy and can recognise and name our favourite fruit and vegetables and discuss our likes and dislikes!
“I like cucumber, do you want some?”
”I like the red pepper, I don’t like the green”
We also further developed our fine motor skills by using the tongs to select our own crudités.
We love to help tidy up and practise resetting our table for our friends to have their lunch!
“We need to clean the table. Then we need a bowl and spoon for our soup”
“I’ll put the water and vegetable tray out”
Our super soup got a big thumbs up today!
“I’m finished. It was so yummy!”
This morning we have been creating patterns in the sand trays. The children have used the pattern stones to print a pattern and have also been using sticks or their fingers to trace the pattern. Some of the children even started creating their own. We have enjoyed discussing the different shapes within the patterns and what we think they look like.
“They’re squares.”
“It’s a 1, 1, 1, 1.”
“It’s my name.”
“I think it’s curly.”
“I’ve got stripes. “
This week the toddlers have been extremely busy. After enjoying home grown vegetables for snack this week, they decided to make some yummy blueberry muffins to enjoy for snack.
We all washed our hands and found a recipe book to let us know what ingredients we needed.
This is what we needed:
Plain Flour
Caster Sugar
Baking Powder
Salt
Melted Butter
Buttermilk
Lemon Rind
2 Eggs
Blueberries
We put all of the dry ingredients into a bowl, flour, sugar, baking powder, lemon rind and salt and gave it a stir.
Now we had to mix the wet ingredients, buttermilk, eggs and melted butter.
And gave it a good stir.
We carefully added the wet ingredients to the flour mix and gave it a good mix. It became very gloopy!
Pop in some blueberries.
The children took great care filling the muffin cases before putting them in the oven to cook.
The muffins looked delicious when they were cooked. The children had to wait till they had cooled before enjoying them for snack.
Some of the children wanted to taste some of the blueberries…. even the lemon!
What will we make next time?
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