The children led this blog and narrated as they went – enjoy their own words!
On a nature walk the children noticed that the bushes across from the nursery have raspberries on them. Â â Can we pick some and make something with themâ â I love raspberries â â The strawberries in the garden are ready to we could make some jam and put it onto scones â
âThese strawberries arenât very bigâ â Bet they still taste good thoughâ âWe need to wash our strawberries and raspberries â
â We need to mash the fruit up, I think a fork would be best for mashing â â The strawberries and raspberries smell really goodâ â Iâm going to mash up 5 strawberries and 3 raspberries because I like strawberries the bestâ
â Lets carefully measure out the ingredients so our scones are tastyâ âDonât put to much baking powder in or it will taste horrible, I think half a teaspoon is fine â
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âletâs cut our scones out,we need the special scone cutter and we need to use the rolling pin , to make it flatââ mine is a bit stickyâÂ
âI think 11 minutes will be enough â â I donât want mine to burnâ
â Mmmm my scone tastes yummy â â Iâm only putting a little jam on mineâ Â â we better wash our dishesâ
Today the children decided that the rhubarb looked in the garden looked ready to eat. âLook itâs grown so big , âWe could make yummy muffins with itâ âfirst we need to pull it out of the groundâ â Itâs so hard to pull out â âletâs wash the dirt off before we cook itâ
âchop,chopâ
We cooked the rhubarb in the microwave till it was soft. â It smells lovelyâ
â We need to put in two scoops of flour and measure out 100 milligrams of soya milkââ Donât forget the sugar, just one scoopâ âTo much sugar isnât good for your teethââ If your mixture is to wet you need to add more flourâ
âWe need to cook our muffins in the oven, set the timer for 11Â minutes . Â â Letâs write our names on labels so we know what muffins are oursâ â Iâm excited to eat mine, I wonder if I will be able to taste the rhubarb, âI havenât had rhubarb beforeâ
Well done children, Â Maybe we could make something tasty with our strawberryâs next time.
This week our little chefs have been baking delicious muffins, following recipes from our âTickle fingers, toddler cookbookâ. We have been making Dairy and Gluten free Blueberry Yoghurt muffins but we ran out of blueberry yoghurt (Plant based Alpro- soya) and blueberries so had to improvise this morning.
We followed the same recipe but adapted the ingredients to suit what we had available. Â We had a discussion on what ingredients we would use. Â âWe could use bananasâ âand raisinsâ.
We washed our hands and put our aprons on ready to begin baking.
Working their larger arm muscles, the children began by using a potato masher to mash the banana until it was all mushy. They helped each other as it was so tough.
âItâs so trickyâ â Iâm using my big musclesâ
Next we added all the liquids to the banana mix including  oil, honey, soya milk and gave it a good mix using the whisk.
They added the raisins then used their measuring skills to weigh out the gluten free self raising flour using the scales, each child took turns to add a scoop to the bowl and watched as the measurements got higher.
âitâs got a 3 and 4â
âNow itâs got two 6âs that number is sixty sixâ
Next they added the flour to the mix and gave it a good mix till it was the right consistency for our muffins. We filled up our muffin cases and popped them in the oven at 180 degrees for 20 minutes. We discussed how to use the oven safely using oven gloves and letting an adult put them in.
The muffins turned out great and are now ready to go home.
At Cart Mill we have entered into the Keep Scotland Beautiful Pocket Garden competition. So, today the children got busy planting a variety of different seeds, bulbs and cuttings.
We started by gathering our tools, pots, seed trays, compost and watering  can.
Before we opened the seed packet we had a guess at the size, shape and colour of the seeds, with some great guessesâ I think they are smallâ â I think they are pinkâ Â â I think they are roundâ and I think that some of the boys and girls have done this before.
After making a hole with our finger we planted the âtinyâ seeds and we filled the watering can because we know that plants need the âsun and waterâ to grow.
Next we went on to plant some daffodil bulbs, this time we used a bigger pot and had a go at lining them up from smallest to biggest.
We planted two pots of daffodils and decided to try an experiment by placing one pot in the greenhouse and the other outside. We want to see if there will be any differences, maybe one will grow bigger than the other!
Finally we potted the cuttings we were kindly given by Benâs Mum and gave them to Derek to brighten up the studio.
A lovely addition to our Family Centre, thank you!
Here is a link to the competition if you would like to find out more about what we are doing in the garden- https://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/media/1570993/opp-pocket-garden-comp-guide-2023-final-211222.pdf
The children are learning to make Scones independently.
First the children wash their hands and help to collect the ingredients and resources we need to make the scones. Today the children have chosen to make plain scones.
The children have been having a guess at how much ingredients we need.
âwe need 1 scoop of flourâ
We looked at our recipe âoh our recipe says we need 2 cups so we need moreâ
âI can measure the milkâ ok can you pour the milk to the number 6?
The children have had so much fun making the scones and canât wait to take them home to try them. đ
In our Home Room this week we have been celebrating Maths Week  Scotland. We have been using the different learning areas In our Home Room to explore this yearsâ Maths Week Scotland theme of  âfinding the beauty in mathsâ, learning how we use maths in all different ways.
In our Baking and Sewing Areas…. As part of Maths Week have been exploring pattern through making some yummy fruit kebabs! We talked about the different colours, shapes and sizes of the fruit and then used our favourites to create a fruity pattern.
Some of the children were able to copy and continue a simple pattern using their favourite two fruits.
âI like grapesââBen do it.â
Some children were able to create their own more complex patterns with three different kinds of their favourite fruit.
âI am doing the same again.â
âI need the banana again.â
In our sewing area we made patterns threading our different coloured beads, and sewing patterns onto the leaves we collected. We had to concentrate hard as it was very tricky!
âIn and out.ââIâm doing colours.â
In our Playdough AreaâŠ
In our playdough area we have been learning how to make our playdough more independently. We have been using measuring, pouring and filling skills to correctly follow the recipe . We decided to record our recipe and display it to help our friends make their own.
“I scoop of salt.”
In our Home Corner……… Stories are a great way to engage children in mathematical conversations. Stories help children to see the relevance of maths to their own lives and develop their understanding of mathematical concepts and language in meaningful contexts.
We explored the story of Simon the Sock. Simon is an odd stripey sock. He lives in the sock drawer with all the other socks. Every sock in the drawer has a pair…except for Simon. Will he ever find his match?
Through exploring the story the children were able to use and develop mathematical skills such as sorting, matching, reasoning and comparing. We loved looking through Simonâs sock drawer. We used our matchIng skills to help Simon  find all the matching pairs!
We then used our observation skills to look at the different patterns. We described all the patterns we could see, spots, stripes, stars and some of us even spotted that we had patterns on our own socks on our feet! Â Â Simon the sock challenged us to use our sorting skills to each decide a different way we could sort our socks. We even used our mark making skills to record how we were going to sort them each time!
When we had completed our challenge we matched all the socks together again in their pairs, well all apart from Simon!
We wonder if any of you have an odd socks like Simon in your home?!
The Children are learning how to make their own scones . Â Firstly we talked about what kind of scones we would make.
âI want to make cherry scones because cherries are my favourite fruitâ â I donât like cherries so I donât want any in my sconesâ â I just like plain sconesâ
We then discussed the ingredients we would need.
â I think we need flour and sugarâ â lots of coconut milk to make the mixture wetâ âBaking powder for the scones to riseâ
Then we used lots of mathematical language to talk about the quantityâs of the ingredients.
âItâs four scoops of flour and one small scoop of sugarâ â We need to measure out the milk in the glass jug itâs 100 mlâ Â âItâs only one teaspoonful of vanilla essence and one teaspoonful of baking powder that makes the scones growâ â mm coconut milk smells yummyâ
Everyone loved rolling out their scone mix, it was a bit sticky and stretchy!
Then it was time to cut them out and count how many scones we had.
The children did great turn taking and knew that the scones went into the oven for 10 minutes. â Iâm excited to see what my scone tastes likeâ â The cherries look tastyâ
Well done children your scones look amazing đ
Today the children have been talking about the different  berries they know -the different delicious tastes they have , different shapes they have and different ones they have seen when they have been on walks or maybe out shopping.
We thought about how we can use berries in our baking so we decided to make some mixed berry muffins. Together we looked at the recipe and we then followed the instructions to make our muffins.
âWe can use blackberries , strawberries and raspberriesâ
âI think raspberries will make them taste niceâ
â It  looks gooey and stickyâ
We carefully took turns when measuring out the ingredients. We counted and  we showed we could problem solve  when we realised their muffin mixture wasnât binding well. We had to add more coconut milk to make the mixture a bit more sticky.
Once our mixture was ready we spooned it into our cake cases. It was now ready for the oven! ,First we set the timer for ten minutes to check to see if they were cooking well. Â After waiting patiently our muffins were soon ready!đ
When out the oven and being left to cool down the children noticed the colour of their muffins had changed.
âThey look weirdâ Â â Thatâs funny they look differentâ Â â They smell so yummyâ
They then realised that they had changed because of colour of the berries.
Baking is a great experience for developing hand eye coordination through mixing and spooning. Everybody felt a great sense of achievement from baking their own yummy muffins and were excited to taste them at snack time.
What yummy tasty treats can you make using different types of berries?
Today at Cart Mill family centre the children discovered wild raspberries on their nature walk. They talked about what other fruits grow wild in Scotlandâ I found strawberries when I was on holiday , they were really sweetâ â I like finding brambles on a walk they are big  purple and juicy â  They collected the raspberries  and decided  to make them into yummy muffins.
The children looked up a muffin recipe in a baking book and decided what ingredients they would need. âWe need flour sugar milk and baking powder to make them riseâ âletâs wash our raspberries so they are clean ââWe will need scales to weigh out our ingredients â â The children were able to name and weigh out their ingredients waiting patiently on their turn.
â I need 150 grams of flourâ Itâs not sticky enough you need more milkâ â I need to put in two tablespoons of sugar â
The children used lots of descriptive language whilst making their muffins. Â They are looking forward to tasting them at home , well done everyone.
Today in Cart Mill we decided we would like to make fairy cakes. We looked on the internet for a recipe and decided on vegan fairy cakes. Then, we collected all of our ingredients.
âWe definitely need flour, oat milk and sugarâ.
We were able to use the scales to weigh out all the ingredients.
â I need 200ml of milkâ âItâs only at 150ml, I need some more”.
â I think it needs more flour itâs to stickyâ.
We used our fabulous fine motor skills to stir and then transfer the cake mixture into paper cases.
âItâs very messy and slimyâ.
We put our cakes in the oven for 10 minutes.
âI can do the timer for ten minutes”.
We were delighted when we took the cakes out of the oven and they were golden brown. Next, it was time to make the icing! We discussed what colours we would like to use.
â I want mine red because thatâs my favourite colour “.
â I want mine blue, like the sky”.
We finished off with some  lovely rainbow sprinkles . We are looking forward to tasting our cakes at home. Yummy đ
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