Today we continued with our maths block on money. We used our knowledge of pounds and pence to support our do now activity and also in our main maths lesson. We looked at how we add money amounts together thinking about the appropriate method. Is this written or mental? We thought about where the decimal point is and where our numbers need to go when using a written method. I praise the collaborative working in MI today, some great supportive partners 🙂
In nursery, this week, we have been enjoying different activities to hook us into our new summer expedition. We read Billy’s Bucket, and talked about what we can do at the seaside and our past experiences.
We watched a clip from The Little Mermaid and named different sea animals, then we looked at different pictures of other sea animals and saw how many we could name as a crew.
Then, we began planting our seeds and beans ahead of looking at growing in a few weeks.
Finally we were able to sample the hot chocolate that the Mayans would have had. This is made from cacao beans, milk, chilli and honey. The drink is quite bitter therefore not to everyone’s liking.
On Friday afternoon, we made tortilla wraps and had these with the tuna, avocado, chilli and lettuce. Again everyone gave them a good try and some really enjoyed them and asked for more. We looked forward to developing these skills later in this expedition.
On Thursday afternoon, we took part in blind food tasting based on foods the Maya would have eaten. Some of us were a little apprehensive about this due to the unknown. The foods we tried were avocado, chilli, lettuce, dark chocolate and tuna. As you can imagine some of these were a hit and others not so much. However, everyone gave them a try and tried to push themselves outside of their comfort zones.
After having time to work alongside out partners to write speech, it was now time to write speech independently. We watched the video, took note of what was being said and by who before recording this in our books and punctuating it. It was lovely to see some children push themselves to green and experience with having the reporting clause at the start and end of the sentence.
In our book talk, we read the text and started to unpick the vocabulary. This supports our comprehension of the text. We read around the word and used the root word to help us determine the definition. Once we knew what the word meant, we text marked this and record it on the vocabulary wall.
What a way to end a fantastic hook week! This afternoon, we took part in our very own ‘Ready, Steady, Cook’ and followed a recipe to make cookies.
While they were baking, we then started to discuss what a healthy diet was and what the different food types were. Next, came the blind tasting…which got mixed reviews. It was great to try different foods and lots of us found something that we liked that we had not tasted before. Overall, a great end to a great week!
Finally, we managed to construct our tuna salad wrap which contained many popular Mayan food such as avocado, red chilli pepper, lettuce and tuna. We was super careful when using or chopping and cutting skills to cut the vegetables for the wrap. We really enjoyed our wraps, they were delicious!
We refreshed ourselves after all our hard work with a typical Mayan drink! We mixed some cacao powder with warmed milk and a dash of chilli powder to replicate the ancient Mayas recipe.
In expedition this afternoon, we made our own tortillas after finding out these were a staple food in the Mayan civilisation. We worked in mini crews and worked together (putting or mass and capacity knowledge to good use) and weighed all the ingredients. We rolled the dough and fried it to make the tortilla. We are going to need the tortilla in our next lesson.
