Monthly Archives: May 2012

Our kinder morning tea

Posted on by under Kids cooking, Maths, Rituals & celebrations, Uncategorized

Today was the Australian Biggest Morning Tea day to raise funds for the Cancer Council and the Ouyen Kinder had one too.

We have been noticing and using shapes a lot lately so apple triangles were on the menu today.

Cutting up the apple to show how one whole apple could become 4 quarters was the first step. (Using the correct language is important for early maths confidence and understanding) Then it was on to cutting up the apple slices into tiny bits (no special maths words there!)

After cutting the apple it was time to do some maths magic on the pastry sheets.

From a square to a triangle ….

Then into the oven – and they changed from flat white and raw to puffed, brown and cooked (we could smell them cooking! – yum)

Then we had them with some milo at our morning tea – using real teapots and teacups (even teacosies, which the children thought might be teapot beanies or jumpers!)

Everyone tried a taste of the apple triangles – which is all we ever ask of them.

And as Maya proudly said, “We did it all ourselves”.

 

 

 

 

 

More about the worms

Posted on by under Early Learning, Emergent Curriculum, Enquiry & Discovery, The Natural Environment

The worms are an ongoing interest with some of the children. We have put them out in their big worm box outside and we sort out our scraps to feed them (the children know that they don’t get the mandarine peels – that would hurt their skins).

Today we set up a worm sandwich – also known as a worm farm – to help us to see how they actually work down under the ground.

(In other years, when we have done this, we have used our little glass fish tank – but then we can’t use it for other nature “specimens” that we might want to study, so we thought it was a good investment.)

The farm came with instructions and some colored sand – which wasn’t quite enough – to make the layers with the soil. We added some of our own sand as well – but the colored sand showed up really well.

Then we had to sprinkle some water on the sandwich.

Then add the worms.

After that it was time to add some screens – “for privacy” –

and let them settle in. We wonder what we’ll see next week?

 

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