In The Classrooms

Langley
This week in Langley the children had lots of fun experimenting with making bread. As a group we also spoke about what we would like to eat on our bread once it was cooked. The children suggested that we could make some butter to go on our home made bread so we set to work.
We spoke about how we would need to shake our cream to make the butter. All the children loved having a turn shaking the cream and found it fascinating to see the cream thickening and turning to butter. The children also had the chance to be involved in mixing all the ingredients to make the bread. This made an exciting day of watching the bread rise and smelling the bread as it cooked throughout the day. Once our bread and butter had been finished we were able to all have a try of our it for afternoon tea. This was a real highlight for the children to be able to taste their own home made bread.
Thankyou
Jess, Kerry, Jen, Adele

Mead
Dear Mead Parents,
We have opened a Market and a Bakery in the Mead Room and the children are flat out measuring, mixing, baking, selling and shopping to name a few things! There is a huge amount of imaginative play and wonderful socialising taking place at these venues.
The hair on the children's stocking face people is starting to really grow - some really cool hair styles are beginning to reveal themselves! Also, we are having a focus on the student portfolios for the rest of the term so please take note if it is your child's sharing day (you will receive a note in their locker) and take a little time to sit with them and look at their portfolio folder.
Best wishes,
Emma, Susan and Emma

Cooper
The Cooper cooks have been busy making and baking this week using different produce to make porridge and bake an apple cake. Our little crops in pots have really grown and our oats are very tall – we examined these and the oat grains, and then looked at some rolled oats which we made into porridge. The boys ate the porridge with honey and milk and thought about the bees, cows and farmers who had made them. We were also very lucky this week when Miss Kerry brought us some apples from her house. We mixed these up with other ingredients from the farm and baked a yummy apple cake. The boys were problem solvers as they tried to match the ingredients with their origin and discovered that sugar comes from sugar cane and sultanas are really dried up grapes! The cake was delicious and the boys ate every last crumb “I’m already finished ‘cause I love the apple cake” Louie told us!
Kind regards,
Ali, Susan and Sue

Chapple
One of the games new in Chapple Room this week was Rocket Man! This is a fun version of Hang Man. One child took on the role of word keeper and the others had to guess the letters or sounds in the word. A page of Letterland letter pictures was placed next to the game for assistance if needed. It was an interesting insight to where children are at in their development of phonetic skills, and it was fascinating to watch children use this knowledge to their advantage to win the game, but also to help other children increase their understanding of the letter system. The game also provided the platform to practise turn taking and letter formation.
Thanks
Chapple Room Team

Edgerley
Dear Parents,
This week in Edgerley we have been madly authoring books using the Too Simple, Too Publish program at the computers. Although students were very eager it took a bit of practice to understand that a story has a beginning, a middle and an end that all relate to each other, rather than a series of random illustrations. Children assisted each other by reminding their friends to revisit the pages they had already authored to help them think about what might happen next. It was pleasing to see this skill transferred to our busy making table where children paused to reflect on their constructions and made conscious choices to improve their work.
“We can write real books” said Samuel proudly
“And people won’t even know that we made them ‘cause they look like real books” said Hector after he finished writing his title on his front cover.
Kind Regards
Mel and Rosalie