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P3B Fruit Skewers
Today we cut up pears, pineapple and banana. We prepared satsumas and grapes and we pushed them all onto skewers to make a tasty healthy snack.
Charlie H – Some people tried new fruits that they had never tried before.
Sam F – They were amazing.
Lots of children are planning to try them at home.
Millie – They were so yummy.
Junior – I really enjoyed these good fruits.
We learned about keeping our hands clean and the foods clean, eating healthy foods and we had to do lots of maths – 2 x 26 grapes, fractions – cutting fruits into pieces. And we learned that preparing and eating food is FUN!
P3B What materials can a magnet attract through?
Did you know that a magnet could attract through your ear?
P3B have created their own fun maths games
Lochie – They are interesting.
Elsie – You use your imagination.
Lucas – They are fun.
Frankie – You need to use your maths skills. Charlie H – You need to use your bridging skills.
PJ – It was fun doing it.
Niamh – I really like it.
Ailish – They were fun to make.
P3B have created our own Learning Power characters
Which Learning Power did you use today?
How did it help you to be a good learner?
Keep looking as we have more Learning Powers to add.
Bridging the tens to add
Lochie – We have been learning how to bridge the ten.
Charlie H – We stop at the ten station.
Isaac – The number bonds to 10 help us.
We need to learn my bonds of 10 and we need to be FAST.
Healthy Pumpkin Cakes recipe
Today we made these delicious pumpkin cakes. They are healthy and tasty. You can add sultanas to make them even more healthy.
Mrs. Thomson and Mrs Dundas were impressed by our turn taking and our helpfulness as well as our skill in grating pumpkin.
We learned Maths, Reading and Health – Maths – weighing in grams, Reading – what is the purpose of the recipe and reading it, Health – washing our hands thoroughly (again and again if needed) and healthy eating.
Here’s the recipe if you want to make it at home:
Halloween Pumpkin Cake
- 300g self-raising flour
- 200g brown sugar
- 3 tsp mixed spice
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 4 eggs (beaten)
- 200g butter
- zest 1 orange
- 1 tbsp orange juice
- 500g (peeled weight) pumpkin or butternut squash flesh, grated
- Grate the pumpkin.
- Put the flour, sugar, spice, bicarbonate of soda and salt into a large bowl and stir.
- Melt the butter.
- Beat the eggs into the melted butter.
- Grate the orange zest, add zest and juice to the butter.
- Add to the dry ingredients.
- Stir in the grated pumpkin.
- Pour the batter into the cases and bake for 20 mins, or until golden and springy to the touch.
P3B Problem solving work backwards
We are learning to use the strategy work backwards. We used ourselves to solve the picnic problem. 75 people went on picnic. 20 had veggie burgers, 32 had sausages and we didn’t know how many people had beef burgers.
We sat in rows for which lunch we had had – roast beef, packed lunch, and soup. The row that had had baked potato sat down. They were the mystery number that we needed to find.
There were 15 of us. We took away the one packed lunch = 14
We took away the 4 soups = 10
We took away the 6 beef burgers = 4
We found the mystery number 4
For the picnic problem some pairs added the veggie burgers and sausages 20 + 32 = 52 then counted up to 75 to find the mystery number.
P3B Seasonal Maths with Pumpkins and other squash
On Wednesday we had great fun doing practical maths. We measured pumpkins and other squashes.
They were all different shapes and sizes. We wanted to find the biggest.
We measured all round them; round the middle and top to bottom. We measured lines on them. We decided that some were the biggest because they were fatter, but some others were the biggest because they were taller.
We also weighed them.
We compared some to a kg weight to find out if they were heavier or lighter than one kilogram.
We weighed them on kitchen scales. Some were more than 2 kg.
Some groups were quick at measuring because they took turns fairly without any fuss. That’s a next step for some of us.
P3B Superb Science
Mrs. Thomson was very proud of our good behaviour on our visit to the Science Workshops on Wednesday.
What did you learn?
Drew, Millie, Kirsty, Charlie R, Zack – We learned that SOS means help.
Elsie & Scarlett – We learned about DNA.
Ailish – We learned how to get DNA out of a strawberry.
Maisie – I know how to blow up a balloon with no air.
Niamh & Chloe G – We found out that we could make a rocket.
SOS = short short short long long long short short short
Megan & Frankie – We mixed vinegar and baking soda together in a bottle and it blew up the balloon.
Chloe S & Eliana – We made drones. We learned about SOS. Someone showed us elephant toothpaste.
Sam E & Lucas – We liked it all. We liked the tub that popped up.
Lewis & Charlie H – We got a bottle with vinegar and bicarbonate of soda. We put a balloon on it and turned it over and the balloon pumped up with air. We made DNA code bands.