Remembrance day
For our cooking this week we decided to make poppy inspired cupcakes. We followed a simple recipe then added red food colouring and poppy seeds.
We started our session by feeling the poppy seeds and eating a few (just to check we wanted them in our cupcakes). Once we had explored the seeds, we…
Halloween baking
Today in Dandelions, as part of our new Friday cooking sessions we made Halloween biscuits following the BBC good food recipe https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easiest-ever-biscuits. We made it our own by adding in 'witching hour' and 'vampire bats' sprinkles! After the children had rolled out…
Diwali
This week in Dandelions we have explored Diwali.
We started the day by reading the story of Rama and Sita, the children were very engrossed and loved the 10 headed King. We then learnt about Diva lamps and how they were used to light the way home for Rama and Sita.
The children spent the day…
Black history month
We are focusing on one or two historical black figures to celebrate and recognise the important people that helped change and influence our lives!
We have learnt about Ella Fitzgerald, we read her story, listened to her music and talked about how it made us feel then tried to make our own…