We had a great time this afternoon making these scrumptious Easter nest cakes. We washed our hands in the kitchen, melted chocolate and mixed with cornflakes. We then added our little eggs to finish our cakes off. We discussed food allergies and some of the children used special gluten free cornflakes.
We were making our Papier mache Space helmets to wear in the Space Station. Mrs Arbuckle blew up balloons and we pasted on the paper. We will paint them after they dry.
We had large tubes in the class today. We are going to be cutting them for our Space Station, but in the mean time, they are providing us with some problem solving. How can we get the ball to roll from one end to the other? It provided lots of discussion and lots of resilience!
We had our little “Pizza Hut” in class last week for rôle play and decided that we could make real pizza this week. Pizza is the most favourite choice at the lunch hall. 🍕🍕🍕 First, we all washed our hands. Then, we spread the tomato purėe over the pizza base and added mozzarella cheese and then put it in the oven for 8 minutes. We took it out and Mrs Arbuckle cut it up for us. We took our slices out to eat at Values Playtime. They were yummy.
We made helicopters today and they were so cool. We had to cut out the template and fold over the different parts. We then added a paper clip on to the bottom to give it weight. We flew them off the balcony and watched them spin as they flew. It was amazing to watch. We learned that the air helps to support the rotar blades and makes them spin.
We used our fine motor skills to cut out spirals. We looked at the properties of spirals and looked at different places that we can see them . Spirals are amazing!
We are as busy as ever in P1.3. Never a day goes by without us learning something new. ( We know that children always say they learned “ nothing” in school!). Miss O’Neil was busy working with children creating a map of the local environment; Mrs Arbuckle was busy helping with making structures in the Tuff Tray; some people were “making” tools with the giant meccano; some people were making pizza for deliveries in our Pizza Hut; some people were looking at Google maps, finding the local area. We have also been to Assembly and gone over our phonics. It’s all go!
We were continuing to learn about directions in maths today and we used Hour of Code, which teaches us coding. We had to give BB-8 directions to pick up packages. We were very good at programming the blocks.
We were learning about directions today and used the Codapillars. We had to put the different parts on to tell the Codapillars which way to go. We tried to,program them to go from one child to another . It was great fun to do. We got better with practise. It gave us lots of discussion!
