What's for Lunch? - Spinach

Today we had our first 'What's for Lunch?' cooking session and we made yummy Spinach smoothie.

If you want to try it at home, here's the recipe:

Smoothie with Blender
Serves 8-10 pupils
Ingredients
- 4 small stalks of spinach
- 2 bananas
- 2 cups of milk
- Half a teaspoon of
honey
- Half a lemon squeezed
(optional)

Preparation
1 Wash all of your
spinach and peel your
bananas.
2 Put everything in the
blender and blend until
its smooth and all the
spinach is broken up.
Enjoy!

Room 3 enjoyed trying spinach smoothies, and discovering that if you rub spinach on your teeth, it makes them feel very smooth because of the high oxaloacetic acid concentration.
This mineral in spinach actually forms crystals on the surface of your teeth, which is what you can feel when you run your tongue along your teeth!

Creating Works of Art

We have been busy in Room 3 creating portraits of ourselves.  We looked at several portraits by famous artists like Goldie and Van Gogh. We talked a lot about what we have on our faces, and where it sits.  It turns out our eyes are not on the tops of our heads!  We then set to work drawing ourselves.

Next we cut them out, ready to go onto the colourful backgrounds that we created.

Check out the great works of art that we created!

Adding WOW words!

Today Mrs McLeary wrote a REALLY boring sentence for writing.

The cat sat on the mat.

The children helped to brainstorm describing words that we could add to make the sentence more interesting.  Check out the creative sentences that Room 3 children wrote.

The black cat sat on the rainbow mat.
By Taidrew

The fluffy ginger cat sat on the black mat.
By Tipene

The skinny tabby cat sat on the pink mat by my bed.
By Persephone

The fluffy tabby cat sat on the cat mat.
By Samara

The smooth and skinny, black and gray cat sat on the mat by the fire.
By Kayshana

The ginger and white cat sat on the turtle shaped mat.
 By Libby

The cute white and gray cat sat on the mat.  The mat is by the fire.
By Maddison

The baby brown cat sat on the blue mat.
By Dallin

The baby brown cat sat on the red mat.
By Alexis

The warm black and yellow cat sat on the mat by the fire.
By Lewis

The smooth ginger cat sat on the tiger skin mat.
By Nathan

The baby black cat sat on the horses mat.
By Nate

The black and white cat sat on the brown mat.
By Jarred

The baby black cat sat on the cat mat.
By Ataahua

The baby brown cat sat on the fluffy mat.
By Tessa

The fluffy baby cat sat on the pink mat.
By Lizzy