Category: Mearns Masters

Today we began our final Mearns Masters pathway. We watched part of the story of The Lorax and discussed why trees are cut down. We also talked about the importance of trees in our environment.

We saw that the Onceler has cut down every tree in the land, so we have decided to plant our own! We are going to design clay pots, paint these then fill them with soil. We are then going to plant a tree seed inside them and bring these home.

Our coders pathway is now coming to an end. Today we enjoyed making links to our local area by placing photographs around our bed-bot mats and navigating to these different places in Newton Mearns.

Mrs Stephenson is so impressed with our amazing coding skills, no bee-bots got lost on their journey!

On our SmartBoard we also had Google maps set to street view. We enjoyed ‘walking’ around Newton Mearns and some of us even saw our own house!

We have now completed week 4 of our ‘Coders’ pathway in Mearns Masters.

We are feeling confident in operating our Beebots and coding them to move to different parts of our mats. We can also successfully complete the first few levels on the Beebot and Code-a-Pillar apps on the iPads. These continue to increase in difficulty as we progress through.

This week, we linked our learning about people who help us in the community to our Mearns Masters project. We created jackets for our Beebots to turn them into different vehicles we may see eg ambulances, police cars or mail vans. We are excited to see how this progresses next week!

Today we applied all of our new skills and made pizza! We spread tomato puree on Warburtons thins, grated cheese and put this over the top and had the option to chop peppers and add them too! Mrs Stephenson then popped these into the oven and while waited on them cooking we tidied up our work stations.

When we returned to the class we learned how cheese is made by watching the ‘Farm to Fork’ video. We didn’t think the curds and whey looked very nice!

 

 

 

In the kitchen today we made houmous and tomato sandwiches. To begin with, we washed our hands and got on our aprons. We then chopped up some tomatoes before spreading our houmous using a butter knife. We placed our tomatoes on and folded the bread in half.

Some of us were eager to taste test the sandwiches while others felt someone at home would like it more.

Next we tasted a chocolate mousse for our dessert. Mrs Stephenson blended avacado with cocoa powder and a little bit of syrup and water until it was nice and smooth. We then chopped some strawberries and popped these on top. It was a real mixed reaction in the class, some of us LOVED it whilst others… not so much!

Week 1 – Fruit Salad

After talking about our favourite fruit, we explored how a variety of fruits end up in our local shops using the videos ‘Farm to Fork’ . We were then shown the two different holds for chopping. These are the ‘claw’ and the ‘bridge’.

Before having the opportunity to use a knife to try these holds, we discussed health & safety rules to ensure we kept ourselves and each other safe.

We chopped and tasted pears, blueberries, melon, strawberries and avacado. Strawberries were voted our favourite!

Week 2- Fruit Smoothies

We have been continuing to refine our chopping skills, washing and preparing fruit before our teacher added these to the blender to make some delicious smoothies.

Our first smoothie had banana, mango, pineapple and apple juice. We named it ‘Sunshine’. It was delicious!

Our second smoothie included banana, strawberry, raspberries and apple juice.  We named it ‘Rainbow’. We liked this one too!

Week 3 – Rainbow Salad

Now that we have tasted lots of fruit, we have now begun to explore vegetables. During this session we extended our skills by learning how to peel and grate a carrot safely . We made delicious salads which featured carrots, celery, tomatoes and three different colours of peppers (red, orange and green). We had the option to taste these and some of us even wanted to take ours home to share with our families. We were superstars!