Solid, Liquid, Gas

Our play 

We have been learning all about matter in science. Today we performed a little song at assembly about the three states of matter.  
The children did a fabulous job of singing and acting.  Well done room 1 awesome work!

Cheese

Cartwheel Creamery

Today we had a visit from Mrs Walcroft from the Cartwheel creamery. She showed us pictures of how they make cheese.  "I didn't know that goats makes milk too," said Jayden.
"We learnt that they added other ingredients to the milk to turn it into cheese," said Lucas.
"They use molds to shape the cheese,"said Harry.
"I learnt that goats make white cheese and cows make yellow cheese," said Sean.
"They use a smaller tanker to collect the milk form the dairy farms," said Maisie.
"The milk is a liquid then it turns into a gel, then a solid," said Lucy.
"I learnt that there is live bacteria in cheese," said Stanleigh

Afterwards we got to taste the different cheeses...

"I loved the creamy cheese" said Taylor
"I found the white feta too salty," said Emily
"I ate it up in one gulp.  I love cheese," said James

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Making Butter

Science

This week we made butter.  We discovered that we could turn the liquid (cream) into a solid by shaking it.  Afterwards, we used our butter to make fairy bread.  It was delicious.
The next day we learnt how to use book creator to explain how we made butter. We hope to show some of these at our assembly in week 6. Here are some pictures.

Learning all about milk

Dairy Farm Visit

Today Room's 1 and 2 went to the Bartlett's diary farm.  We got to pat the calves and help feed them.
"The calf licked my hand" said Brenna.
"The calf's fur was soft," said Mya
"The calf sucked my finger as I took him to the trough" said Lucas

Then we went inside the milking shed to see how the cows are milked.  We learnt lots of interesting facts...
"cows are milked twice a day" said Jamie
"they have 500 cows on their farm" said Lucas
"the tanker hold lots of litres of milk"  said Sean
"the milk goes into the tanker through a big pipe" said Jayden
The cows eat about 100 kilograms of grass a day.
Cows and calves need to drink a lot of water each day.


"we got to put the cups on the cows to milk them" said Lucy
"we ate ice cream and cheese and we drank flavoured milk," said Maisie
"we saw the food they feed to the cows," said Taylor
"it was fun to milk the cows," said Joseph

It was a great day and we had lots of fun.

Oobleck

Buddy class
For science, we are learning about the different states of matter. Today room 1 and 6 got together to make Oobleck.  We got into groups of 5 with our big buddies and we mixed cornflour, water and food colouring together.  We made several discoveries.  When we hit the Oobleck it acted like a solid, yet when we picked it up it turned back into a liquid.  
We had lots of fun playing around with the Oobleck. Here are some pictures.
Thanks room 6 !

Maths

Shapes

This week we have been looking at 2 d and 3 d shapes.  We have talked about faces, edges and corners.  Today we went for a walk around school to identify 3 d shapes and we photographed them and then created a pic collage.  Great maths room 1!