Mystery Reader & Milkshake Moustaches!

We were very excited to have our very first mystery reader today! This morning the children had a chance to try and guess who they thought it might be and came back from lunch very quickly so they didn't miss the surprise. 

A very big THANK YOU to Justin Stokes (Timo's Dad) for coming in today to be our very first mystery reader. It was an absolute delight to see Timo's face light up when he realised his dad was our mystery guest. We were even treated to not one but two fantastic books, one of which Timo helped read! The children were such great listeners and thoroughly enjoyed having a visitor reading to them.

The children are very proud when they have a parent, relative or friend come in to read. Please don't miss out on the chance to share a story or a fun activity with our class. 

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Milkshake Moustaches

We have had such fun today making milkshakes!!

We had a question yesterday morning on our board asking - What is your favourite flavour? The children could choose between chocolate, vanilla or strawberry. So the groups were made - 8 chocolate, 5 vanilla and 5 strawberry.

The children were given a blender, plastic cups, ice cream, and milk.  In their group they had to discuss how they were going to make the milkshakes with these items. The teacher gave no instructions but was the helper that the children could choose to give directions too.  

Vanilla went first:

They decided to each have a turn at putting a scoop of ice cream in the blender, followed by each filling half a cup of milk and putting it in. We blended it together and had a taste test. The verdict was - huge smiles! 

Next was strawberry:
They spent a little time talking about what steps they would take to make the milkshake because they were so eager to taste test. Using what we had learned about procedures they decided who was going to scoop the ice cream, pour the milk and operate the blender. They decided each person in the group got to add a scoop of ice cream, that meant 5 scoops!! Very clever thinking :-) Then added the milk, turned on the blender and after the taste test the verdict was - lots of milkshake moustaches!

Finally it was chocolate:
This proved to be the most popular and since we had 8 people  They each had a turn at putting a scoop of ice cream in the blender, followed by each putting in a splash of milk. All into the blender and after the taste test the verdict was - huge smiles!

Once each group had finished we sat together on the mat and reflected on how the groups worked together. We had previously talked about what was an effective procedure and what was an ineffective procedure. We reflected on how we went about the process and decided that next time we would make it a little different.

We talked about what they thought worked well and what they would do differently next time. They all agreed that if you don't work together, listen to each other and follow the steps of a procedure correctly then things can go wrong! We had a lot of fun making them and clearly we followed the steps carefully since each group had a milkshake as an end result!

Here are our new and improved instructions for making a milkshake.