Yuuummmmm - scones for lunch!

Whanau Manaaki experimented with making whipped cream to complete our jam scones. Everyone agreed that scones with jam and cream are . . . "YUM!"

We learned that the more you mix the cream the stiffer it gets, so it turns from a liquid to a solid.

We did some 'kitchen science' research and learned that cream has lots of fat globules. By beating the cream with a whisk or electric mixer, the coating around the fat globules wears down and allows the fat to stick together making it more solid. If we kept mixing, it would turn into butter!

Making Popcorn in A8

We have been learning about Change. For Whanau group, we made popcorn. We used the popcorn maker and talked about the corn kernel. The best part was when we got to eat it.

A2 Whanau Group: Making fairy bread

Making Pendants A1 Whanau

Tastes like butter!

A7s whanau group made butter!  We only needed 2 items - a jar and cream.  Everyone had a turn at shaking the cream and in about 10 minutes, we had created butter!  It tasted really good with toast and cinnamon sugar!  Yum!!!

Ice Ice Babies! by C6 Whanau

On Monday C6's whanau group played an ice game to see which team could melt their ice cubes the fastest.

Some of the different ways we melted the ice were:
1. Squeezing it
2. Leaving it in the sun
3. Playing pass the parcel with the ice cube
4. Blowing on it
5. Rubbing it on the deck

Our hands were freezing but the game was a lot of fun! At the end, all of our ice cubes had melted into water.

Here are some pictures of us in action.