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Week 8: Term 2
This week we learned about the digestive system. Remy shared a really cool book with us and we enjoyed watching this Suzy's World episode.Week 9: Term2
This week we started looking at what goes in to our food.
Jelly - a party favourite! First we tried to guess what the most common ingredient was – yes Phoebe, it is sugar. We looked at the other ingredients on the pack and discussed what they were and why they were needed/used.
We read the instructions and decided they
look a lot different to our writing – no adjectives or detail. Ms Clarkson said
that’s because it is procedural writing, something we will do next term.
Time to make the jelly. While we were
making it we discussed why it is important to follow the instructions and what
might happen if we didn’t. Then in to the fridge it went overnight.
Our set jelly looks delicious! Before we
ate it we again thought about the different ingredients:
- Sugar – makes it taste nice
- Colour – makes it look yummy
- Flavour – makes it taste like raspberries
- Gelatin – makes it set so we don’t have to drink it through a straw!
- Water – brings all the ingredients together to give us jelly.
Time to eat – yum! We decided that no
raspberries were actually harmed in the making of this jelly!
Popcorn - another party favourite!
After watching a Youtube on how popcorn is formed, we
brainstormed what goes in to popcorn and for each ingredient we asked:
- Is it needed?
- Why do we add it?
- Is it healthy or not?
Room 5 joined us
for the popcorn making. We made a range of popcorn:
- Plain
- Icing sugar
- Salt
- Butter and salt
And our favourite flavour was … butter and salt!
Week 1: Term 3
We started the week making hokey pokey in our class. It was very simple and looked cool the way it frothed up when we added the baking soda. We wonder what else we can do with baking soda.
This week we also did simple experiments with some of our favourite food – lollies!
This week we also did simple experiments with some of our favourite food – lollies!
First
Ms Clarkson explained each experiment:
- Put four different coloured M&M’s on a plate and add some water.
- Put a black jellybean that had been dipped in water on a piece of filter paper.
First
we made a prediction about what we
thought would happen. Then we conducted
the experiments. Finally we discussed
what we had actually seen and tried to explain
our observations.
Visit
http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments for an explanation.
Week 2: Term 3
What do you think will happen if you add a small amount of milk to a glass of Pepsi Max? Check out our photos and the above website for an explanation.
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| Doesn't look very appetising... |
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| After 3 hours |
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| Next morning |
We also put a coin, a shell and a sea biscuit in separate glasses of Pepsi Max. The coin is now very shiny (thanks to Ruby's Dad for the suggestion), while the shell and sea biscuit are beginning to dissolve. No wonder we are told fizzy drinks are bad for our teeth!
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| Before immersion |
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| After a week and a half |
Later in the week Ms Clarkson showed us how to blow up a balloon by mixing baking soda and vinegar.
Finally, Room 5 shared their rubber egg experiment with us. Thanks Daniel for the great explanation - very cool!
Week 3: Term 3
We have all been looking forward to making ice cream. Who knew it was so easy, though our fingers got very cold shaking our ice cream bag in the ice and salt mixture - luckily most of us remembered our gloves. It was delicious - Mr Goosen and Mr Pope thought so too!
Week 4: Term 3
This week we invited our buddy class to help us make pikelets. Not just any pikelets though - we planned to remove or substitute ingredients.First we looked at a pikelet recipe and discussed what role we thought each ingredient played and what would happen if we removed that ingredient.
Baking day came and, thanks to great support from Mum's and Grandma's, we got down to mixing 12 different mixtures.
Time to start cooking...we managed to avoid setting off the smoke alarm.
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| Masterchef, here we come! |
Time to test our creations. First the buddies assessed the appearance of the pikelets, then the all important taste test.
Well, they can't have been too bad. Time for the clean up.
And the favourite ... the recipe where the egg was substituted with golden syrup. Interestingly, the recipe where the milk was substituted with water was quite popular, as was the recipe where the baking powder was removed.
Check out this YouTube of our pikelet making put together by Mr Harris.
Week 5: Term 3
This week we made bread. First we measured out our ingredients and mixed them together. Everyone got a chance to knead the dough before we covered it and left it overnight.We got back to our dough during maths the next day. Maths?! Ms Clarkson assured us maths is important when we cook and we discussed the maths that we had been using - time, volume and capacity, reading fractions, reading numbers into the hundreds and more.
Another short knead before we shaped our dough into a loaf and then in to the oven it went. It smelt so good when Ms Clarkson brought the cooked loaf back in to the class...and it tasted really good too.
Week 6: Term 3
In Week 1 of the term we wondered, after enjoying our hokey pokey, what else we could do with baking soda. Yes, we did blow a balloon up when we mixed vinegar and baking soda but we can't imagine that mixture tasting nice. Hmmm, how about sherbet?This week we discovered how easy it was to make sherbet. The citric acid made it a bit sour, the icing sugar added the sweetness, the jelly crystals gave flavour and colour, and the baking soda...made it froth in our mouth! We enjoyed dipping a lollipop into our homemade sherbet bags.
Ms Clarkson took some home and she and Josh both agree that it's nice sprinkled over ice cream!
Week 7: Term 3
This is Theme Week, the final week of our Kitchen Chemistry topic. In theme week we aim to do some activities together as a school to celebrate our learning.On Monday Mr Hatfull created a smell test. He had 20 different ice cream containers with different smells in and we worked with our Room 9 buddy to try and guess what each one was. Overall, we did quite well. We had been led to believe all the samples were those that could be consumed by humans so you can imagine the discussion that ensued in Room 4 after we discovered one was actually cat food...apparently there are quite a few two-legged cats around!
On Tuesday we enjoyed a whole school shared lunch in the hall. Again, we were paired with our buddy class. Looking around at all the amazing food made us realise just how lucky we all are. Even Tony, who had the previous week regaled us with tales about the food hall at the recent Commonwealth Games, was impressed. A huge thank you to all the parents who helped their children prepare their dishes - there wasn't much left over.
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