Primary 4/3 exploring our local environment

OUR LOCAL ENVIRONMENT

Primary 4/3 along with Primary 4 received a letter from Visit Scotland asking for their help.

They are in desperate need of local experts to conduct research about Faifley then create an advertising campaign to encourage people to 'Visit Faifley'

This afternoon we explored the local woodland looking for landmarks and taking photographs.

Autumn leaves are everywhere!

We saw many very tall trees in the woods. Aiva thought they were 200 years old!

Calam photographed this beautiful waterfall

How did Ashleigh get up there?

Crunching in the leaves!

Aaron found an interesting tree branch for a rest!

We thought visitors to Faifley would love to go for a woodland walk as we had so much fun!

P4 Roman Feast

Roman Feast!

To celebrate the end of our IDL topic on the Romans, Primary 4 had a fantastic Roman feast!

Our feast: juice, figs, dates, bread, apples, grapes and honey.

In Roman times, it was normal to eat with your fingers whilst lying down. It was also polite to burp to show your appreciation!

Thankfully there was none of that from Primary 4...

A table full of tasters!

We tried lots of food, including bread, figs, honey and dates! We tasted the food, then discussed what we liked and didn't like about it.

Skye, Brooke and Emily enjoying the food

More happy feasters!

Caitlyn, Allannah and Robyn scoring the food out of 5.

Finally, we washed it all down with a nice cup of (juice)wine, just like the Romans!

"Cheers!!"

We even had a well-timed visit from Mr Paton. He loved trying the Roman food!

P4 Smoothies!

Healthy Smoothies!

As part of our health and wellbeing topic "healthy eating", Primary 4 have been learning how to prepare and enjoy healthy food and drinks. This week we made smoothies and tasted lots of different fruit. We talked about how these are healthy alternatives to food such as milkshakes, fizzy drinks and chocolate bars.

Scroll to the bottom for our delicious strawberry smoothie recipe!

First, Miss Dougan asked us what ingredients we would like to put in our smoothies.

Then we washed our hands and put on our aprons ready to prepare the food!

Hailey and Brooke washing their hands.

Then Miss Dougan made the smoothie and we all had a bit to try. We also tasted lots of different fruit, some of which we had never tried before! We did lots of thinking about what how much we liked the smoothies and the fruit. We gave them scores out of 5 and discussed our likes and dislikes.

Libby, Leon, Lauren and Millie enjoying their smoothies!

John, Boyd an Kian loving the healthy drinks!

Aleishia and Robyn give healthy drinks the thumbs up!

Fruit tasting and scoring

Sasha and Brooke enjoying the fruit!

A great big orange smile from Leigh!

Allannah enjoying the tasting.

Boyd working hard on scoring the different fruit.

Here is our strawberry smoothie recipe- try it and tell us what you think ☺

Strawberry Smoothie

Ingredients:

10 strawberries

120g yoghurt

1 banana

1 tablespoon honey

Method

First put the strawberries in the blender.

Next spoon in the yoghurt.

Then add the banana and the honey. (Tip: We also added a wee bit of milk!)

Finally mix all the ingredients together in the blender, and enjoy!