As our farmer's market curriculum continues, the children helped us to make banana bread from scratch. They mashed the bananas, measured the ingredients and watched as the bread machine went to work. It was the most fun watching the machine mix up the ingredients. In addition to making the bread, the children also made their own butter! They learned about the emulsion process (vocabulary word of the week) and created butter by shaking cream in a jar with a marble. The process was a success and believe it or not, the butter formed pretty quickly!
Up next week: Stain glass recreations inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, an American architect, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 532. The children will recreate a stained glass piece of his using wax paper, crayons and black tape.
Lastly, we are excited to begin collecting items for various non-profit organizations around our area including Room to Grow in Boston, Heartbeat in Burlington, MSPCA in Boston/Methuen, Burlington Food Pantry and more. If you have an organization that your would like to suggest, please email me and we can definitely add it to our donation rotation. We will be collecting throughout the month at school and at our months gatherings. Just think, if everyone contributes one item, we will have so much to give to people and animals in need!
Families: Don't forget to check our Shutterfly site for monthly picture updates of our adventures!
Ingredients for our banana bread!
Completed emulsion process (aka butter!)
Children hard at work measuring and loading up the bread machine!
Such a busy and interesting week.
ReplyDelete