The boys and girls have been very busy baking sponges, banana breads and soda breads! The children went out to the shops to buy the ingredients which included milk, sugar, flower and eggs. We then got baking! Lesley, our Early Years Teacher, very kindly brought in special measuring scales, which we used to measure the weight of our ingredients. The boys and girls were working very hard to estimate how much of each ingredient we need to put on each side of the scale to balance it. The staff have observed a lot of fabulous mathematical and positional language, which children were using while working together. After the batter was ready, we popped it into the oven and… we then had the bread for our snack! Yummy!
J: “It’s moving!”
L: “The butter is so slippery, it’s very tricky to mix it.”
O: “It goes in the oven now. Children don’t do that, they might burn their hands.”
L: “We knew it was enough because the scale moved.”
G: “The eggs are heavier!”
L: “It’s balancing!”
We also welcomed Koby’s gran, who came to the nursery to talk about chickens. Koby’s gran used to work with over 100 chickens – WOW, that’s a big number! She very kindly told us very interesting facts about eggs, chicks and grown chickens! The boys and girls listened to Koby’s gran very carefully and were excited to ask more questions about our chicks. We found out that now our chicks are growing and we need to let them out to stretch – so we built a big pen with our building blocks to give them their ‘exercise area’!
We would like to thank Koby’s gran for making the time to come and speak to the boys and girls and teaching them all about taking care of the little animals!
