What a busy afternoon

 

What a great afternoon we had. We were looking at dissolving and did some experiments to see which ingredients would dissolve and which wouldn't. We had a half glass of water and put in one teaspoon of an ingredient then stirred it for one minute (we used timers). We had salt, pepper, sugar, coffee, tea, jelly crystals, baking soda and sand. We tried our dissolving experiment in cold water and next time we will try warm water to see if our results differ.

We all learnt something new today and had a lot of fun doing it too.

Room 22's maths group

 

 

Today for Maths we were looking at ways we could measure length using our feet. We traced around our foot to write our findings on and then we had to work out how far it was from where we sat to the front door. We also had to find out how far it was to get across the room and from our chair to the teacher's table. It was a lot of fun and we all looked funny counting out loud and walking heel to toe.

We were asked what would happen to water when it froze...

 

We have been looking at the three states of matter; solid, liquid and gas. We know that every thing is made up of molecules and how they are able to move decides what state the object is.

We had to pour some water into a cup up to a vivid line and hypothesise (imagine) what would happen to the water when it froze. Some of us thought the water would stay on the line, some thought it would rise above the line and some thought it would freeze below the line.

Once Mrs Reid froze them in the freezer we got our cups back to look at. Our cups were plastic and some of them split as the water froze but all of them froze above the marked line. We saw that as water freezes it expands.

As water freezes into ice, the molecules become frozen in place and begin to arrange themselves in a rigid lattice structure. This structure causes the water to expand and become less dense.

That is very technical but we then got to take it out of the cups and go play outside with our lumps of ice. It was great watching it melt again back into water. We were really lucky to even see trapped air bubbles start to move around in the ice as it melted.

We think ice is pretty cool (ha ha).

 

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Properties of several cooking ingredients

Healthy muesli for beakfast

 

Telmo and Tula show us how to make a healthy muesli that will start every day in a good way. Remember that we need to have a good breakfast so we are able to learn to our best potential.

Blind taste testing

Today Mrs Reid made us sit at our tables and put our heads down, hands up. J.W and Mrs Reid went around putting different types of food in our hands. We were only allowed to feel then smell then finally taste what was in our hands...we couldn't look. There were some really yum things put in our hands and some not so nice...
We felt, smelt and tasted:

• apple
• chicken stock powder
• rock salt
• dry noodles
• tinned fruit salad
• cocoa powder
• lemon
• jam
• cold spaghetti
• sour lollies
• lemonade (we had a sip from a cup)

we had to describe what we felt, smelt and tasted and these are some of our describing words:

• salty
• strong flavour
• powdery
• spicy
• fine
• fruity
• fizzy
• bitter
• sweet
• juicy
• crunchy
• crispy
• solid
• floury
• mushy
• sugary
• sticky
• gooey
• sour
• soft
• wet
• liquid

Can you think of any more words to descibe the foods we had to sample?

What we learned at Tip Top

Today we were lucky to go to the Tip Top factory and see icecream being made. Mrs Reid asked us what one thing was that we learned today.

We learned how they make icecream L.C
They make 60,000 litre of icecream in one day. J.Hi
The tanks were kept at 4 degrees. J.H
We learned how the icecream gets put into the tubs. M.T
The icecream isn't put in by hand but by machine. H.D
They do not put colours in icecream. G.B
Each tank of icecream holds 20,000 litres of icecream and there are 9 in total. O.S
The men in red uniforms are engineers. S.P
There are only two chemicals in icecream. A.A
They have a freezer the size of Pack n Save at Botany. M.B
If you put icecream in the microwave it becomes slimy and yuk. J.W
The iceblocks are held by their sticks to be dipped in different toppings. N.B
There is not much fat in plain icecream...unless you add toppings. A.E
Fruit is cooked and put into the icecream. H.T-S
The waste of the icecream goes to pig farmers. V.V
If they make a mistake it gets put into a container and sent to the pig farmers. S.B
If you have two scoops of icecream it is not bad for you but if you add other things it's not so good.  P.P
There is a new kind of icecream coming out but we weren't told anything about it.....yet. M.B
They try to make each batch of icecream perfect. D.B
When they taste it it must be 100% good. G.H
They have more than one type of icecream, they have lots. M.v-d-M
They don't put coloring into their icecream. J.S
There are so many yummy flavours. H.M
The lollies and hokey pokey and cookies are put in a special way just before it went into the 2 litre tubs. B.P

 

We're off on a trip...

 

 Wow are we lucky.... on Monday 13th May room 22 is off to visit the Tip Top factory. We are going to see how they make all of the delicious ice creams and ice blocks that we all know and love. Some of us think we may be allowed a free sample too which will just make the day perfect! We will keep you informed of how our day went and should have some photos for you to enjoy soon.

We made butter (part two)

         

We made butter (part one)

                        

As the first part of our new Inquiry topic we spent the afternoon making butter. We watched (and listened) as our cream turned from a liquid into a solid through a lot of hard work. The good news is that we got to eat it after and we decided we LOVED it!

Our H.M is a cooking star with her own Youtube clip!

Telmo and Tula show us how to bake a chocolate cake