Muffin Recipes

As requested here are the links to our 5 healthy muffin recipes....

Zucchini Mini Muffins

Super Healthy Kids Muffins

Carrot Corn and Cheddar Muffins

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins

Sweet Potato and Carrot Muffins

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We had a great day yesterday making and tasting our muffins. The class was split into 5 groups and each group had previously chosen their recipe. The criteria was that the muffins needed to be tasty, have hidden vegetables and be healthy. We invited Room 7 to come and do some blind taste-testing for us and give each type of muffin a vote out of 5 for taste. We had a great group of parents helping us out and lots of fun and learning was had by all. Check out some of the photos from the day. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Invitation Challenge

Our little garden and germination experiments have recently taken us off on another adventure. We have been looking at how much sugar is in foods, including our little garden vegetables. We have discussed how good vegetables are for us but that many children don't really like their taste. So we are going to try and hide vegetables in muffins! 😆The idea is that children will work in small groups and find a muffin recipe that they can alter to include vegetables. They will make their recipe and will be judged on taste, healthiness and the vegetables hidden in them. We are inviting Room 7 to come and be our judges so we decided they needed proper invites. Children worked in small groups to produce an invite. We will judge the invites on the criteria listed below and chose the best two to send to Room 7. 

The criteria is 

* good layout

* clear font size and correct spelling

* correct details like when and where

* good colour and background choice

* appropriate images 

Here are all the invites. What one do you think should be our winner?????

Number 1

Number 2

Number 3

Number 4

Number 5

Number 6

Number 7

Number 8

Number 9

Number 10

Number 11

Number 12

                             

Germination Experiments

The whole class worked together to make this slide show about our recent germination experiments. We learned so much and now have to complete some more experiments because of the questions these experiments raised.

Maths Trail Findings

This morning we started the day by sharing our findings from yesterday. It was interesting to note that many children had to have very random guesses about measurements as they didn't have any knowledge to base their estimations on. For example some children didn't know how long a metre was, so they couldn't make accurate guesses for how long or tall something might be. One of the questions asked the children to estimate how tall the big tree by the sandpit was. We had answers ranging from 7 metres to 60 metres. The question asking the children to estimate how long it would take to walk around the outside of the school also produced some interesting answers - ranging from 5 minutes to 200 minutes.

But perhaps the most interesting results were around the question about our blue rubbish bin. The question asked the children to estimate how many litres of water it would hold. There were many different answers but most children didn't know what one litre of water looked so had no way of working this out.  Some had used what they knew of milk containers to guess, but most thought it probably held about 2 litres.

We used the pyrex jug to find out how much a litre was and then had an interesting discussion about whether 1 litre in the pyrex jar was the same as one litre in our water bottle - eventually we decided it was.

















The next step was to find out how much water our bin would actually hold. Firstly we poured 15 litres in and then marked this on the side of the bin.

Children then had to use the 15 litre measurement to work out how much the bin might hold altogether. The results show we have a very imaginative bunch who enjoy a challenge. Many of them actually used their knowledge of fractions and thirds - without even realising it!

After completing the maths trail I now have a good feel of what the class needs to learn in the measurement area. You can help at home by pointing out how different units of measurement are used for weight, length, capacity, etc. Being able to visualise these units of measurement from their everyday lives will help them to make connections in the classroom.

Maths Trail

Measurement is our new topic for maths for the next couple of weeks. Today I needed to know what the kids already knew so I could plan to their needs. I decided a maths trail was a good way to make use of the glorious sunshine and get everyone moving on their first day back.

The maths trail was a series of measurement questions as shown below

The children went around the school in pairs estimating and measuring their way through the ten questions. Tomorrow we will compare answers and talk about our findings. This will give me some good insight into what children do and don't know about measurement at this stage. 

Combining Reading and Following Instructions

Today we began a unit on reading instructions. We have some very good readers in this class, but too many times when they are given written instructions, they are unable to follow them. This is usually because they don't read the instructions carefully enough and miss out important information. We talked about all the times in our everyday lives that we (or our parents) need to be able to follow instructions. 

The children are very good at coding and they enjoy it. They competently complete tasks online, however they usually just code and create whatever takes their fancy, rather than following any set instructions. 

Today I handed out some instructions on coding - programming a sprite (a sprite is a creature used in coding).  It was really interesting to watch as half the class jumped on computers and logged on to where they thought they were going to be and the other half came up to me and asked which site to go on. NO ONE actually read the instructions which clearly stated in a box up the top which website they needed to got to!!!!  Guess this shows exactly why we are working on following instructions..... 

Calendar Art

Here are our wonderful works of art for you to purchase for Calendar Art. Notices about this have been sent home today.