Spring 1 2018
We finally moved back into our classroom today! The children loved helping to build the new tables!
Cookery – Pancake Day!
“It’s a day that you have pancakes. On pancake day you can have them for breakfast and lunch and for your dinner.”
Why is it called Pancake Day?
“’Cause they go in a pan.”
“It’s funny because it’s a pan and a cake.”
“You put it in a pan and it turns into a cake!”
We learnt that its other name is Shrove Tuesday and it is always on a Tuesday!
We stirred the mixture.
“I can still see the egg.”
“We need to do the whisker.”
“The electric mixer. The eggs will disappear.”
“It’s much faster than your arm.”
“It goes 10 thousand.”
Inspired by the wolf creating lots of rubbish when he blow the houses down, we watched a video about landfill sites and talked about recycling – then were inspired to make a recycling centre and sorted the ‘rubbish’ into wood, metal, plastic, clothes and toys to be given to other children.
“The bin men pick up the bins and put it into a big truck.”
“It takes it to a big rubbish place.”
“There’s a 2 bin holder things that tip it into the lorry.”
“It turns into something else.”
“In the lorry, there’s a thing that crushes it and make it really flat.”
“Green and black bins – it goes into a factory and onto an escalator and moves along.”
“Recycle means tipping rubbish away.”
“Naughty people throw everything in the dump.”
“I found a green bin.”
“I know what I can do with these – I can find somebody who will love them.”
“Newspapers in here! Old books in here!”
Painting the houses.
Making concertina dragons.
Learning to draw dragons.
In Cookery we had a packet of noodles.
“I’m sure they’re Chinese because I can see a dragon.”
“It feels like plastic.”
“They’re really fragile, because it’s breakable.”
“It’s a circle.”
“It feels like spaghetti.”
“We have spaghetti, not noodles in this country.”
Can we eat them?
“No! They’re all dry. We have to cook them.”
“They’ll go soft.”
“It will get bendier.”
“It’s going to be slippy.”
“Put hot water in. It makes them come apart.”
How will we know when the water is hot?
“You can see the steam.”
“It’s moving about.”
“It’s all steamy and bubbly.”
“You can see the noodles pop up. The water tries to pop them up.”
“You can hear it sizzle.”
Where do noodles come from?
“A noodle farm?”
“Cookers in China make them – get some rice and glue and stick them together… It might be like the rice – the water melted inside.”
“They’re made of special plastic that you can eat.”
“They’re made out of hundreds of things mixed up and they make it into a noodle shape.”
We drained the noodles in a colander.
“The noodles are too big to go through the holes. The water is little. Drops of water are little.”
What’s different now?
It looked like a nest – now it looks like string.”
The children remembered the sauce we had made last week – we needed ginger and soy sauce.
“Ginger is a root. Carrots grow in the ground. I think it’s basically a root.”
“It’s got juice!”
“Maybe there’s tiny holes in the ginger we can’t see s the water goes in.”
“From the flood or the rain.”
“I can taste a bit of hotness.” (ginger)
“I love it!”
“It’s way better than home noodles.”
“I’m gonna get chopsticks.”
“I want to learn to use chopsticks!”
Being plumbers. (Some of the children used different voices to show they were plumbers!)
"It bursted and it flooded all down there. It took us ages to pump it out.”
“This pipe is for clean water.”
“This pipe is to attach to her pipe and then it is to attach to the school.”
“We need another pipe for the dirty water. It goes from the toilet through the big pipe, through a small pipe to the dung river.”
“Our pipe is attached to their pipe and then we’ve made it even longer!”
“This pipe is for the electric power.”
“I’ve found a pipe in your sink, Mrs Watson.”
“Do you know, some people have to drink out of the river and it’s dirty and it makes them die. It’s because they’ve got no pipes.”
“I need a drink … - I pretended it was tea because plumbers drink tea!”
“Do plumbers use this (compass)?”
“They are for finding the right direction.”
“They might forget which w