 bit browny – not really white.”
“It feels hard and it’s round with sharp bits at the end like a rectangle.”
“There’s a hundred.”
“It’s raw. It means that…Oh! I dunno!”
“It means that something’s very cold and you can’t eat it.”
“You have to cook it.”
How could we find out about rice?
“Go to the world to that place.”
“When we go in a rocket, we can see the world.”
“My mummy knows about China. She gone there a long time ago.”
When we eat it, we want it to be…?
So how are we going to do all that?
“In a pan. After you put it in the pan, you let the water heat.”
“Afterwards you need to drain it out.”
“Actually the water has to soak into the rice. The water goes in and you don’t have to drain it.”
Once the rice was cooked, we had another look…
“It’s all sticky.”
“It’s white now.”
“It’s steamy because it’s hot.”
“It’s gone all bendy.”
“The water was soaked in and the water made it – I just remembered!”
We made a sauce to go with the rice using ginger and soy sauce.
“Is ginger a root?”
“How do they make ginger jam?... Maybe they cut it up and put it in the oven.”
“Grating is a quicker way to cut it.”
“Yeah! It makes it smaller.”
Finally, we looked at Chinese knives and forks.
“They open them up and then pinch bits.”
“Or they could stab it.”
– but what were they called?
The children loved using the chopsticks to eat with!
“I can just balance it!”
“I’m going to make some chopsticks. I will chop a tree down, then thin it down.”
“Why don’t we tell the children that aren’t Fledglings to use them!”
“You know what I’m going to say to my mummy – I want chopsticks!”
Unfortunately the great excitement meant we were short of time for role play. We watched a video and were going to be plumbers but “we can just make plans instead and do it next week!”
“This water plan is going down to the village to the houses – nearly to my house.”
“All that grey bit is the poo and horrible bits and these are the pipes that go to all the houses. Actually the pipes come from the house and they go to the ‘slewage’ works. This tank is for the clean water, then it goes to the taps and you can drink it.”
“That pipe is from the toilet. That goes to the big pipe under the house and that pipe is for the water coming into the house.”
“The poo goes out of the house down the pipe, then it’s cleaned and then it goes into another house.”
“The white bits are clean water. I’m going to use curved bits of pipe.”
“The Indian people had to collect water in pots and hold it on their heads.”
“Some people don’t drink healthy – it was on the telly. If they don’t have clean water they will die.”
Following instructions using the Beebots.
We used just the colours red, black and gold to create artwork inspired by the Chinese.
Finding the difference.
House models – this involved lots of measuring and checking for a good fit today - and delight when it worked!
"I've persevered... lf you persevere, you get better and better. If you don't, you don't get better."
"My dad can do anything - more than builders can!"
You must be just like your dad.
We introduced real coins this week and practised using it in our role play shop.
Cookery this week was Chinese spring rolls.
“Vegetables are good for you because they make you really strong.”
“3 little pigs – eat the broccoli!”
We looked at the chopsticks…
“How do they cut things?”
“I think they get a piece of wood and make it sharp – scrape the wood onto some more wood.”
then the filo pastry…
“It feels like towels.”
“It’s softer than us.”
“Did you get it from China?”
“Did they use a rolling pin?”
“I would say they used a machine to squash it down.”
“A hammer…it looks like a book…Once upon a time there were 3 little pigs..” (everyone spontaneously joined in with the story telling.)
“You can see right through it.”
“When you put oil on, it makes it brighter.”
“The oil’s soaking in.”
The children were keen to try all the vegetables.
“I’m going to have a nibble of everything.”
Beansprouts: “Good and crunchy!”
Carrot: “They’re so good for you.”
“Can we have just a pinch?”
“I tried a leaf and it was really yummy.”
We looked at our finished rolls.
“You c