Cooking and Counting

We’ve been ever-so-curious about eggs!

They have such a curious, wobbly, smooth shape don’t they.

Did you know a hen lays about 300 eggs a year?

Did you know the ostrich lays the biggest egg?

We found some eggs in our Home Corner and Role Play.

Wooden ones and plastic ones.

But wanted to get our hands on the real thing!

So off-we-went, out-and-about to the shops.

Shopping list at-the-ready and money in hand.

We bought tomatoes and oranges.

And eggs of course.

For cooking with… but also counting with!

We could “see” how many tomatoes there were without counting.

But used our fingers to point to each egg as we counted.

“1…2…3…4…”

Then close the eggbox.

Then carry the tomatoes in our baskets.

Then boil up the water.

And…
Cook!
Cook!
Cook!

Yum – boiled eggs!

Our St. Paul’s Promise “I can count to find out how many” helps us play with numbers, say all the number words we know, and love to count.

I am a Great Learner

We like to take responsibility.

We are full of
resourcefulness
imitation
independence
perseverance

We like to be involved in all parts of routine and making sure all the fruit and food is cut up ready for our snacks and morning tea.

Our learning is so full of

absorption
involvement
planning
collaboration

We have to concentrate hard to cut and chop, peel and slice.

Sometimes learning is “tricky” and we have to persevere and keep trying.

Sometimes our learning is full of imitation, as we copy others’ strategies.

How do you hold tomatoes that want to roll away or fly off the table?

Our St. Paul’s Promise “I am a great learner” helps us Build Learning Power – full of active learning, creative thinking and giving things a go!

Let’s Go Large!

Do you remember we talked about “finger gym” in our last news?

And how writing is such a physical thing?

We make marks… BIG and small!

We know Baby Room 2 have been really embodied in the learning – climbing in and covering up with cardboard boxes.

We’ve been in-our-bodies too!

Looooooonnnnngggggg rolls of paper have provoked us to stretch and roll our bodies across the page with crayons.

Look how long our lines are!

O! And how important it is to practice pincer grasp as we grip the crayons.

Our St. Paul’s Promise “I can use marks to communicate meaning” helps us explore marks, lines, shapes, textures, patterns.

What marks can you make?