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Our Home Learning Blog

Week beginning 29th June 2020

29/6/2020

 

Cooking with Chocolate

This week we have been looking at recipes and doing lots of cooking with chocolate. 
  • We made Rice Krispie Cakes and Chocolate Brownies. 
  • We looked at different ways of melting chocolate and what happened when it cooled again. 
  • What do you think makes chocolate melt?
  • What do you think might happen to the chocolate when it cools down?
  • We talked about the ingredients and measured them out, then took turns to mix them in a bowl. 
If you would like to make one of our recipes you can find them here:

Rice Krispie Cakes

You will need:
  • 60g/ 2 oz unsalted butter
  • 3 table spoons golden syrup
  • 1 x 100g bar milk or dark chocolate
  • 90g/ 3 oz Rice Krispies
How to make them:
  1. Melt the chocolate in small bursts in the microwave or over a bain-marie (in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water)
  2. Add the butter, cut in to small pieces, stir until melted
  3. Add the syrup, stir
  4. Add the Rice Krispies and stir in to the chocolate mix, gently
  5. Spoon in to 12 bun cases
  6. Leave to cool
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Chocolate Brownies

You will need:
  • 140g unsalted butter
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 x 100g bar milk or dark chocolate
  • 340g light brown sugar
  • 140g plain flour
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  • Chocolate chips/broken biscuits/Smarties: anything you like!
  • 25cm Square cake tin, lined with foil
How to make them:
  1. Melt the chocolate in small bursts in the microwave or over a bain-marie (in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water)
  2. Add the vanilla essence and butter, cut in to small pieces.  Stir until melted and leave to cool
  3. Beat the eggs and sugar in a bowl
  4. Add the chocolate mixture
  5. Sift the salt and flour into the bowl.  Gently stir in
  6. Fold in the chocolate chips or whatever you have chosen
  7. Pour the mixture into the tin
  8. Bake in a preheated oven at 170 C (325 F) Gas 3 for about 35-40 minutes
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Story of the Week

​Our story this week was Jasper’s Beanstalk by Nick Butterworth.
  • What did Jasper do on each day of the week?
  • How tall do you think the beanstalk was at the end? 
  • Can you make a beanstalk with blocks that is taller than you?
  • Where did the beanstalk go?
  • What was Jasper looking for at the top of his beanstalk?
  • If you had a beanstalk, what do you think would be at the top?  Can you draw a picture of it?
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Planting seeds

  • We planted our own beans in little pots. 
  • We are checking them every day, just like Jasper, to see how tall they will grow. 
  • We also planted some cress seeds.
  • Which do you think will grow quickest, the beans or the cress?
Growing cress at home
You will need:
  • Cress seeds
  • Paper cup/plant pot
  • Some Paper towel/tissue
  • Water
What to do:
  1. Scrunch up the paper towel and place in the bottom of the cup
  2. Then add a small amount of water to wet the paper towel
  3. Sprinkle on some cress seeds and place in a warm bright spot, preferably a windowsill.  
  4. Check every day to see if anything has started to grow
  5. Remember to keep watering too​
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Maybe you can guess how tall the cress will grow or how many days it will take to grow
You could draw a chart too
Have fun!

Early Phonics Activities

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Week Beginning 22nd June 2020

22/6/2020

 
Bees
In the garden this week the Lavender was full of bees! 
We found one bee who had been so busy that he was having a rest on the ground. 
​We gave him some sugar water to make him feel better.  
Home learning Ideas
  • When you are out, you could look to see how many different insects you can see. 
  • Maybe you could take a photo or draw a picture.
  • What do bees collect from the flowers?
  • ​What do they make in their hives?
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Postcards
We have been thinking about our friends and people that we haven’t seen for a long time, and wrote them postcards to say ‘hello’.

​You could write a postcard or a letter to your friend, or someone that you haven’t seen for a while, or maybe draw them a picture.
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Home learning Ideas
  • You could write a postcard or a letter to your friend
  • You could write a postcard for someone that you haven’t seen for a while
  • You could maybe draw them a picture.
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Story of the Week

Our story this week was The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle. 
When you’ve listened to the story, try to answer some of the questions below.
  • What did the caterpillar pop out from?
  • Can you remember all of the things the caterpillar ate?
  • What did he eat first?
  • What did he eat last?
  • What do you think is a caterpillar’s favourite food?
  • What is the name of the special house the caterpillar made for himself?
  • How long did he stay inside?
  • What did he turn into?
  • See if you can remember the life-cycle from the story and draw a picture of it.

Making Playdough
We made Playdough from plain flour, oil and water. 
We added red and green paint and made caterpillars like the one in the story. 
​If you don’t have Playdough you can make caterpillars from paper or card. 
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Early Phonics Activities

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Week Beginning 15th June 2020

15/6/2020

 

This Week's Story

​The Tiger Who Came to Tea

​Our story this week was The Tiger Who Came to Tea, by Judith Kerr. 
​You can listen to the story by watching our video below.
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Home Learning Ideas
When you’ve listened to the story, try to answer some of the questions below.
  • How would you feel if a tiger came to your door and asked to come in for tea?
  • What would you do?
  • Do you think that your Mummy or Daddy would let the tiger in?
  • Would you let the tiger eat all the food and drink all the drink?
  • Is the tiger a good guest?
  • How would the tiger behave differently if he was a good guest?
  • Who would you invite to your own tea party?
  • What do you think would happen at your tea party?
  • If you could go out to a restaurant and order anything at all, what would you order?

Courgettes!

This week in Nursery we have been exploring the garden and checking on the tomato and courgette seeds that we planted in March.  The plants have grown so big, and one of the courgettes was enormous!  We picked it, cooked it and ate it. Click on the images below to see a larger version.
Home Learning Idea
​At home, you could try growing some seeds.  You don’t need a garden, you could just take the seeds out of a tomato or an apple, or anything that you enjoy eating, plant them in a pot with some soil and see what happens if you look after them carefully.  What do seeds need to grow?  You could take some photos or draw a picture as your seed grows.

Father's Day 21st June 2020

​We also made cards for Father’s Day.  We made hand prints and enjoyed painting, collage, anything we wanted to do.  What kind of things have you made at home?  You could send us some photos to show us what you’ve been doing at home.

Early Phonics Activities

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