Today was World Porridge Day and we celebrated by making our own porridge.  

First, we learned a bit about the work Mary’s Meals do to feed over 1.5 million children across the world.  Children in counties like Malawi receive a cup of porridge every day at school.  This encourages the children to go to school as they know they will get something to eat.  

We had 4 activities happening in our class.  The first group was converting grams into kilograms as we needed this knowledge when measuring out ingredients.

The next group were displaying different numbers using concrete materials. We used thousands, hundreds, tens and units. This helps us with our insider standing of place value and it is helpful to see a number represented by different materials, rather than just written down.

Another group were measuring oats and milk using scales and a jug.  We followed the measurements given on our recipe and we also chopped apples and bananas which we used as toppings on our porridge.

At the final station, we mixed our oats and milked in a pot.  We used a portable stove and cooked the porridge over a hot hob.  Here we learned what we could add to make the porridge thicker and thinner.  

We loved celebrating World Porridge Day and remembering the amazing work Mary’s Meals do.