The Weather

This term our topic is “The Weather”.  As we’d had a little snow this weekend we began this week looking at snow.

 

SNOW

We started off making snow playdough.  This must be one of the easiest recipes I’ve ever used.  It’s no cook and takes about 10 minutes to make.

Snow playdough ingredients:

          2 cups of flour

          1 ½ cup salt

          2 tablespoons cream of tartar

          2 tablespoons vegetable oil

          1 ½ cups boiling water

          Glitter (optional)

Method:

Pour the flour, salt and cream of tartar into a bowl and mix.  If you want to add glitter do that now – any amount that you think is enough.  I ran out of silver glitter so used some gold.  This gave the white playdough a lovely sparkle.

 

Next add the oil and mix a little (the mixture will be a little clumpy and floury)

An adult should add the boiling water and stir it all together.  Within about 2 minutes the children can join in again mixing with spoons.  When the flour has all mixed in the children can use their hands to make the mixture into dough.

 

Store in a Tupperware container.

The children used scales, carboard boxes (as ovens) and baking trays together with scissors, cutters, rolling pins and other playdough equipment to manipulate the dough.  We talked about how snow looks and feels, what it's made from and where it comes from.

NOTICEBOARD

This term we will be looking at:

Food

The hungry caterpillar

stone soup

food that grows on trees

Burns Night

Chinese New Year

Shopping for food

pancake day

valentines day

food that grows underground

Handas Surprise

Mothers Day

Food that grows in other countries

My favorite foods

and our topic for this term is:

Fabulous Food

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