Sunflower Day

Sunflower Day

Today we read all about sunflowers and even read a poem. Afterwards we made some beautiful sunflower art. Below is the step by step guide of how to make them.

Baking Day

 Baking Day

Another fun day in the magnificent blue bubble. Today we did baking with Ms Caroline. We all got to wear aprons too. We felt pretty special. We split into two groups and we made two batches of ANZAC biscuits. One had cinnamon in it and the other was just normal. Below are some photos and if you want to know the recipe we used so you can make your own scroll to the bottom. 

Ingredients:

1 cup plain flour

1 cup desiccated coconut

1 cup rolled oats

100g butter

1 cup white sugar

1 tablespoon golden syrup (or honey)

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 tablespoons boiling water

Optional ingredient - 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Equipment needed:

Oven

Baking tray (lined with baking paper or greased to prevent biscuits sticking to tray)

Mixing bowl, small bowl

Sieve (optional)

Cup measures

Tablespoon, teaspoon, wooden spoon, fork

Small saucepan

Wire Rack

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C conventional oven/160°C fan oven

2. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper or grease them lightly with butter

3. Sift the flour into the mixing bowl, add the coconut and oats (add cinnamon at this stage if using). Put bowl to one side

4. Add the butter, golden syrup and sugar to a small saucepan and stir over a low heat until melted and the ingredients are combined. Ensure that the mixture does not simmer or boil. Remove from the heat

5. In a small bowl place 1tsp baking soda and add 2 tbsp boiling water, stir to dissolve. Add this to the butter mixture in the saucepan and stir to combine

6. Then add all the wet ingredients from the saucepan to the dry ingredients in the mixing bowl.

7. Using a wooden spoon stir well until all ingredients are combined

8. Place tablespoons of mixture onto the baking tray and flatten with a fork, or for more uniform shaped biscuits roll into small balls and then place on the tray flattening with a fork. Place biscuits about 4cm apart to allow space for the biscuits to spread slightly

9. Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes until golden. 10 minutes the biscuit may still be chewy in the centre and after 15 minutes the biscuit will be crunchier!

10. Remove from the oven and allow to cool slightly before transferring to a wire rack to cool fully.

11. Once cool, place biscuits in a container and they will keep for up to a week (no chance in my house once the kids find them!)

Rock Day

 Rock Day

Today we learnt all about rocks. We read a rock book and talked about the different types of rocks. Our favourite rocks were the rocks that came out of the volcano. Miss Pryde even had some pumice rock to show us. It feels a bit like sand. After we talked about rocks we went on a rock adventure and tried to find our own rocks. We found big rocks and little rocks. We saw little gravel rocks too. Our favourite part of the day was the rock art we did. We got to make whatever we wanted. We started by looking on our iPads for inspiration and then we painted them. What do you think of them? What would you make?

Ameer painting his angry bird. Very focused.

Rayne painting her ladybird. 

Tupe made two different types of angry birds.

All the creations. Can you spot the South African flag rock in there? We are going to give it to Mrs Milward for her birthday. 

Bee Day

Bee Day

Today was bee day. A day all about bees. Keep scrolling to see all the fun bee things we did.

We looked at the long 'ee' sound like in the word bee and the word sleep. Below are some of the words we thought of.

Keep

sleep

weed

weep (this was a new word for us)

three and all numbers ending in teen 

feet

tree

queen

teeth

deep

green

sheep

and the list goes on and on. Leave a comment with your own 'ee' word.

The book we read about bees. 

Fun fact that Ali learnt: Wasps sting bee's. They are enemies. 

The poem we read. We read it to three friends and found all the 'ee' words.

The magnificent blue bubbles bees

we spent lots of time playing with out bees. Some bees had special powers. Alix's bee has special tornado antennae and Khit has special electric powers. How cool.

The last part of the day we played with our bee bots.  We love the bee bots, they are little robots that help us learn basic coding. They also help us with our directions like forwards, backwards, left and right. It helps us with maths because we have to count our bee bots moves and we learn about quarter turns. Check out the video below to see one of our super coders at work.

Giraffes

 Giraffes

The book we read

This book is about a giraffe going to the zoo because he works at the zoo. A lot of different animals were going to the zoo but they were late because they didn't have a bike. The giraffe was on time to work because he rode his bike. 

Some of the beautiful giraffe art the kids do. 

Our Blue Bubble with their art work.

POPCORN

Today it was popcorn day. We made a lot of mess with the popcorn because it was getting too hot and popping the popcorn everywhere. We made 3 flavours, one normal, cinnamon and plain butter.  6 people liked the cinnamon sugar flavour, 3 people liked the butter and nobody liked the normal one. 

We also played the popcorn game outside. You put the pretend oil in the pot then we put balls in the pan which is a parachute and then we go up and down, left and right and pop goes the popcorn. We also did poetry about popcorn. We coloured in the popcorn and we were looking for the sound 'POP' there were 8 pops and one hidden one which made it 9. 

The magnificent blue bubble had an amazing day because of all the popping good times. 

Playing the popcorn game.

Popcorn Song

You put the oil in the pot

and you let it get hot

You put the popcorn in

and start to grin.

Sizzle, sizzle

sizzle, sizzle

Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop!

Making popcorn

Aaliyah and Ava showing us their poems

The popcorn book we read

Magnificent Blue Bubble Scooter Club

Magnificent Blue Bubble Scooter Club

Bubble learning means lots of time outside doing the things kids love. Hours of fun on these scooters, it's been very cool watching the kids grow in confidence, learn to do 'jumps', ride two scooters at the same time, go really fast or go down a hill. They have had so much fun and today was even more fun because they got to use knee pads, elbow pads and arm pads to make them look extra cool.

 Scooter races

 

   Carlo wearing his protective gear

                                                    The magnificent blue bubble scooter club

   Carlo has learnt a new skill