Cooking Curry with the Preps

This semester, the Preps have been learning about India. One of the things that we have been discussing is Indian food and this week we made a yummy curry and ate some pappadums. All of the students tried our curry and many came back for seconds. Below you will find some pictures of this experience and also the recipe we used (just incase you would like to use it at home), that was provided to us by one of the Prep parents (thank you). Many of the Preps have told us that they have now had curry at home and we would love for parents to post their recipe below so we can discuss the different ingredients used.

Mild Veggie Curry: 

                ½ cup  Potato (diced to ~ 1cm)

                ½ cup Butternut pumpkin (diced to ~ 1cm)

                ¼ cup Tomato (chopped)

                ¼ cup Onion (chopped)

                1Tbsp Light Olive oil

                1 tsp cumin (seeds ground)

                1 tsp coriander (seeds ground)

                Fresh Thyme

                Fresh Bay leaves

                Fresh Curry leaves

Put olive oil, cumin and coriander in pot and heat.

When spices start “bubbling’ quickly add all the veggies, thyme, bay leaves, curry leaves and mix

Add ~1/2 cup of water, bring to boil and turn stove to low.

Cook for ~20 minutes or until veggies are tender and have the desired consistency of the sauce

Salt to taste.

Serve with pappadums and/or rice

Serves: 3 children

100 Days of School Celebrations!

Last Friday, we celebrated the Preps 100 days of school by centring the day around activities that focused on the number 100. Below is a quick recap of what we got up to...

On Thursday, we started making our 100 cake and the Preps measured out all of the ingredients, ensuring that they were all mixed correctly and then put them into the oven to cook.

Developmental Play

Developmental Play was centred around the number 100 and challenges. 

Challenge 1: Build a structure from 100 cups

 Preps build a pyramid, a jail and a castle.

Here is an interview with two of the Preps who will walk you through their jail:

Challenge 2: Collect 100 smiles

A group of students went around the room collecting smiles. Pairs collected ten smiles each and added these to our graph. In the end we had collected 100 beautiful smiles and could easily skip count these by 10's.

Challenge 3 : Build a structure from 100 pieces of Lego/blocks

A group of students used 100 Legos and large blocks to create structures. Some of these included a castle, a space ship and a city.

Challenge 4: Icing our cake

Students carefully mixed the icing and applied it to the cake ready for the 100 party

Our 100's collection

Students were encouraged to bring in 100 of something for our display. Below are some of the interesting items that we had in our collection.

100 Cheerios

100 Marbles 

100 Footy Cards

100 puzzle pieces

 Our 100 Goggles!

During Developmental Play, students created their own 100 goggles which could allow them to see 100 years into the future.

Maths

Students moved around to three different maths activities which focused on the number 100. One involved counting 100 fingers and to do this the students practiced skip counting by 5's in order to figure out how many hand prints we needed. These displays have been used throughout the week for other maths activities.

100 Fingers

Some questions from the Preps:

"How many hands do we need if we want 10 fingers?

"How many hands do we need if we want 50 fingers?"

"How many hands do we need if we want 100 fingers?"

Our 100 Party

At 3pm families were invited to attend our 100 Party, which involved watching a slideshow of pictures of the last 100 days, listening to the preps sing a song, eating our delicious cake and spending some time together in our courtyard.

It's hard to believe that 100 days have already flown by, time flies when you're having fun!

- The Preps

The Golden Dragon Restaurant

As part of our Asian Studies, the students set up and ran a Chinese Restaurant. All students had a turn at both running the restaurant and also being a customer. Some of the jobs students had can be seen below, including: working on the cash register, taking people to their seats, cooking, serving the food, delivering tea and cleaning up.

At the start of Developmental Play, each group had a turn to prepare the fried rice with Ben (our Master Chef!) The preps cooked the vegetables and then the added rice and soy sauce to make it extra tasty.

As the food was cooking, other groups set up the restaurant. On each table there were chopsticks (forks for those less confident), a beautiful hand-made bamboo placement, a fan serviette and a dragon decorative piece. 

 

Before anyone could enter the restaurant, the preps had to pay for their meal. Our happy cashiers collected the money and welcomed the guests to the restaurant.

After all of the guest were seated it was time to serve the fried rice and tea. Students all practiced using chopsticks and our waiters ensured that all guests were happy with their meal.

Once everyone was finished, our waiters cleared the tables and cleaned all of the dishes.

What a fabulous 'night out!' Well done Preps.