November 2021 – P4.14 Blog 2023/24

Soup, glorious soup!

Today we made Leek and Potato Soup (with carrots as Mrs James thought that we might not like green soup!)

We were able to use our cutting skills to chop potatoes, carrots and celery. We had some assistance with the onions and leeks. Together with our partners we filled our bowls with chopped vegetables that we then placed in the pots. Stock cubes and a little salt was added to the water.

After lunch we went back to the kitchen and we could smell our delicious soup as we walked along the corridor to the kitchen. Mrs James and her super duper assistant (one of our wonderful PSA’S) had cooked the soup during lunch time.

It was then blended and poured into our containers.

Our job was not finished yet…we still had our dishes and washing up to do. Here is the proof that we know how important it is to keep everything clean and tidy in the kitchen where food is prepared.

Finally, we wrote out an ingredients list to go home with our soup!

Smooooooothies!

(When we arrive at the kitchen we put on our aprons and wash our hand using soap and water.)

Last week we chopped some fruit and made smoothies. We prepared the bananas using the “claw hold” and strawberries using the “bridge hold”. Working in pairs we prepared our fruit, then with the help of the adults in the kitchen we placed them in the blender, added fruit juice and turned on the blender.

We were all able to taste the smoothie that we made and enjoyed a refreshing drink.

While we were waiting our turn for the blender, Mrs James set us the challenge of making a Christmas or Winter picture using the chopped fruit. Here are some of our masterpieces.

Before we arrived at the kitchen we discussed where food comes from. We chatted about food that grows in the ground and others that grow on bushes and trees.

Developing our skills further, we hope to make some soup using vegetables this week.

Chopping in the kitchen!

This week we had our second visit to the kitchen. We were learning about the different holds that we should use when cutting items for example banana, watermelon and pear.

We used the bridge hold and the claw hold to chop our fruit. It depends on what we are cutting and what shape we want it to be.

We discussed healthy eating and how there are many different fruits, some that are grown in our country and others grow in warmer climates.

Everyone enjoyed being in the kitchen working together learning about food and how to work with it. We look forward to taking part in more lessons in the kitchen as part of our Mearns Masters.

Posters

We have been making anti litter posters. We looked at the features of a poster. When making our posters, we thought about the letters and pictures we would use to persuade people not to drop litter.

Snapshot

Here is a snapshot from this week. We have been investigating Autumn leaves, acorns and conkers in the tough tray, trying to use these loose parts to make pictures and symmetrical patterns.

We used small pumpkins to work on our fine motor skills using elastic bands. This then helps use with our handwriting.

We used natural letter slices to make words as well as some of our new wooden magnetic letters.

This week a few soft toy patients arrived at our doctor’s surgery which required our doctor’s to write prescriptions for the medicine that they need so that they feel better.

Here is a photo of some of us working at the teaching table. We were carrying out a writing task related to our focus on COP26.

Plant Experiment – results

A month ago we planted broad beans. We planted one bean each and also 3 extra beans.

Bean 1 – we did not water……the bean did not grow

Bean 2 – we planted without soil……the bean started to grow a root and a shoot. It had two leaves

Bean 3 – we kept in the dark……the bean did not grow

Half of our beans did not grow, the other half grew well and this week we were able to measure how tall they were. We worked in pairs to measure the height using cubes.