P1/2 have been using the laptops to research French food this term as part of their Food topic. Some food sounded really yummy – macarons, crepes, baguettes and tarte tatin just to name a few. Others were a bit surprising. Have you ever tried frogs legs and snails?!
We decided that we wanted to try making some of the yummy treats for family and friends to enjoy. Once we found some simple recipes, we wrote shopping lists and began the preparations for our French afternoon. Invitations were made and sent out. Then it was time to begin making and baking! We also made a milk chocolate tarte and a white chocolate tarte but forgot to take photos!!
Roma was busy making her own notes on French food.
Ryan and Elijah worked as a team to find out about baguettes and took notes to share with the class.
P2 were super helpers for the P1s. There was a lot of information to look through and they had to decide what was important to write down.
Conor carefully looked through the recipes to make sure he had included everything in his shopping list.
Elijah read out the ingredients for Freya to add to her shopping list.
Time to begin the first crepe mixture.
Everyone enjoys cracking the eggs! Watch out for egg shells!
Conor made sure Aiden poured just the right amount of milk.
Roma takes a break from beating her eggs to check the milk too!
Leo and Freya worked as a team to pour and measure the right amount of milk.
tap…tap…tap…
Everyone was busy pouring, measuring and mixing.
Iona begins mixing all of the ingredients together.
Freya’s turn next!
Next up…mini chocolate croissants.
Roll them up….
Roma seems happy with her croissant!
When the pupils finished each croissant, they added them to the tray.
Keep rolling…we need to make more!
Georgia and Elijah worked together to lightly brush some egg on top of each one.
What a busy day we’ve had in P1/2! It started off with a drumming assembly with Joy Duncan. P1/2 were on first and what a brilliant opening act! Well done everyone for your enthusiasm and focus to play the correct rhythm.
We celebrated Shrove Tuesday (or Pancake Day) this week by making crepes. We have been learning about French food in class and found a recipe online that we could use.
We have been learning how to follow a recipe, measure out the ingredients and take turns. Thank you to Mrs Casey for helping us to cook them, they were yummy!
Last week we spent time sharing our weekend news writing with a friend.
A big focus for everyone this term is to write a sentence with a capital letter at the beginning, clear finger spaces between words and a full stop at the end.
After reading our own news books, we swapped with a friend and became the teacher for the morning! Everyone had to check to see if their partner had included all of the things needed for a sentence. We used a pink pencil to show what had been done well (tickled pink!) and a green pencil to show what could be worked on next time (green for growth). Some pupils even added a comment in their partner’s book to say what they had done well.
We have been busy looking at the food packaging from our fruit tasting afternoon. It was amazing to see where our fruit has travelled from to get to our classroom! Most of the fruit came from Africa, South America and Spain. As a class, we plotted these fruits on a large map and had fun looking at an atlas to see if we could find these countries for ourselves. Some pupils couldn’t believe how tiny Shetland was in comparison to other places around the world!
We discussed how important it was to try and buy local produce as much as we can, but of course this is not always possible when buying pineapples or bananas!
Following on from our fruit tasting afternoon, we gathered together all the results and worked with a partner to create a bar chart on the laptops. Then we worked together as a class to make a giant bar chart for our classroom wall. I wonder which fruit was the most popular?
We had to count out the correct number of squares to show how many people liked each fruit.
We worked as a team to build each part of the bar chart.
Nearly finished!
Apples were the most popular! Everyone said that they liked the taste of apples.
As part of our topic, we have been tasting lots of different types of fruit. We recorded whether or not we liked each one. It was great to hear some pupils saying that the fruit they had previously disliked were now quite tasty!
Just goes to show how important it is to keep trying!
