It has been a very fun first week back after our half term holiday! We began our new learning project called “Muck, mess and mixture”!

We spent one day exploring different messy materials. We mixed wallpaper paste, cornflour and jelly as well as having a go at painting, moulding with clay and making marks in shaving foam. Lots of exciting adjectives were thought of that day!

Also this week we began our new story; ‘Pumpkin Soup’ by Helen Cooper so, of course, we had to make some pumpkin soup ourselves.

In groups we scooped out the pumpkin seeds and added the herbs and spices to our big saucepan.  The soup bubbled away on the hob as we continued our learning in our classrooms and later we tried the soup for a snack. Some children thought the pumpkin soup was really tasty, others weren’t so keen.

Have you ever cooked with pumpkins at home?