Health and Wellbeing

Golden Vegetable Soup

Today we worked hard to make Golden Vegetable Soup. The first two groups peeled and chopped the carrots for our soup. The next group chopped up the turnip. They thought that it was very hard to chop. The next group chopped up the leeks. The last group are chopping the potatoes and putting the water and the stock in the pots to make the soup.

We had to cook the vegetables in the pot with the water for about 40 minutes. We used a hand blender to make our soup nice and smooth. We added in some milk to make our soup golden in colour and nice and creamy.

When our soup was ready we got to eat it and some of us added some parsley on top to finish it off. We made two pots of soup and we ate it all. We didn’t even leave any for Mrs Noble or Mrs Hadden.

14 of the boys and girls in our class enjoyed our soup. We are all proud that we tried something new even if we didn’t like it.

Erin – I enjoyed cutting up the turnip and it was hard to cut it up.

Adam – I enjoyed chopping the carrots for the soup.

Conor – I liked cutting the carrots.

William – I didn’t like our soup today but I am happy that I tried it.

Benjamin – I loved eating the soup.

Daniel – I didn’t like eating the soup today but I liked cutting up the carrots even although it was tricky.

Vegetable Kebabs

We made honeyed vegetable kebabs on Wednesday. We had to get ready to cook. We had to wash our hands, we had to put on our aprons, some of us had to tie up our hair and Mrs Noble had to take her jewellery off. This week Mrs Noble taught us a strange trick for washing our hands properly. She told us that we had to sing Happy Birthday to ourselves and wash every part of our hands.

We had to cut up all of our vegetables. We learned that to chop safely we need to make a bridge with our hand and to slice safely we had to make a claw. We made a marinade with honey, oil and a little lemon juice and we put all of our chopped up vegetable into it. We had to put the pieces onto the skewers to make he kebabs. We had to put them into the oven and the last thing we got to do was eat them.

Conor – I liked the potatoes because they were yummy.

Lewis – I didn’t like putting the vegetables on the skewers but I did like cutting the vegetable up.

Jason – I only liked the peppers but I am pleased that I tried it.

Klea – I didn’t like the red peppers but I liked puting the vegetables on the skewers.

Adam – I did not like the taste on mine but I liked puting my hands into the bowl because it was all sticky.

Daniel – I didn’t like the yellow peppers but I liked puting the vegetables on the skewers.

Making Snowmen

Today was special because it had snowed last night. This afternoon Mrs Noble set us the challenge of making the biggest snowballs that we could. We had to work out how to make a small snowball and roll it to make it bigger. They were really heavy. We used our big snowballs to make snowmen. It was good fun. We are going to write about it tomorrow.

Rebecca – We had fun making snowballs.

Andrew – We all worked together to make our two snowmen.

Deonne – Mrs Noble helped us too.

Klea – I learned to roll a snowball to make it bigger.

Jason – I fell over a lot.

Our Class Post Office

On Tuesday we worked as a whole class to create our very own post office in our classroom. P1/2 are going to to be Chryston Primary’s Christmas Posties. We will be sorting and delivering all of the Christmas Cards to the classes this year. We made signs for our post office. We decorated our Christmas post box. We sorted out a special basket for each class. We wrapped lots of parcels. We noticed that all of the parcels were different kinds of 3D shapes.

Caiden – I liked decorating the post post.

Lewis – I think all the children worked hard to make our post office.

Conor – I liked wrapping the presents and choosing a bow for mine.

Niamh – I liked puting the wrapping paper on the parcel. It was easy because Jason helped me.

Children in Need in P1/2

Today is children in need. We raised money by coming to school wearing our own clothes. We all donated £1 this morning.

Pudsey bear helped P1/2 with their maths today. Primary 1 were learning some adding using 2 Pudsey bears. We added counters to make the spots on Pudsey’s eye match. Then we added them together.

primary 2 used Pudsey to practise their doubles. We worked in pairs and we rolled the dice to tell us what number to double. We put spots on Pudsey’s eye patch to practise our doubles facts.

This afternoon we learned about how Pudsey helps children. We made our own story books about to take home.