Mr Marshall - The Amazing Baker

Today Mr Marshall came to school 

to teach us all about how bread is made. 

We watched him demonstrate how to make bread.

This is what we found out...

BREAD

Ingredients:

Flour , salt, yeast, water.

             Put the flour on the table.

             Sprinkle a small amount of salt on top.

               

                          Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients.

               Sprinkle a small amount of yeast on top of the flour.

       Pour some water in the well.

                                  Mix with your hands to make the dough.

                                              Add more water if needed.

  Keep mixing and kneading the dough with your hands and fingers.

         Leave it to rest and rise.

Mr Marshall let us feel the dough that had risen.  

                It felt… soft, squishy, squirmy, smooth, gooey, sticky

 and soft like marshmallows.

After he showed us how to make the dough. 

He then showed us how to make a mini pizza from the bread.

He also showed us some of the tools he uses when he bakes. 

First a razor sharp knife to cut and slice the bread

 and then a scraper, 

to scrape up the rest of the ingredients 

so that nothing is wasted.

He showed us all the different types of bread 

that he made from the dough. There were…

chocolate buns, iced buns, pizza, cheese loaves, 

Vienna loaves, jam buns and cheese buns.

When we got back to class we all felt hungry 

because what he made looked…

awesomely delicious, mouth watering, super- yum, 

amazing, incredible, delicious and divine.  

Thank you Mr Marshall for sharing your knowledge with us

and helping us with our inquiry learning.

Fonterra Visit 25th August

Our Fonterra Visit

Today Dan, Mark and Linda came to visit us from Fonterra, 

to tell us all about where milk comes from.

First Dan told us all about…

                    *  Who Fonterra is

             *  How they make milk products and export them overseas

             *  How they collect 22 billion litres of milk from farms each year           * How they make milk for the supermarket,  flavoured milk, yoghurt, ice-cream and the milk we drink at school

              *  How they send milk to Nestle factory to make lollies

            * What cows eat and drink in a day 

            (70 kg of grass and a bathtub of water)

*  How the cows turn the grass into milk in their stomachs

* Where you get the milk from – its udders

*  That it takes 1 day for the cow to make the milk in its tummy

              *  How the milk gets from the cow to the shop and how that takes two days

*  How the tankers collect the milk

Next we asked Dan some of our questions.

After that we went outside to see the Fonterra Milk Tanker with Mark.

 

Mark showed us the truck, the hoses where the milk goes, 

the computer in the truck that counts the litres of milk, 

the little sample bottles and inside the cab of the truck.  

Then it was time for our visit to end. 

We thanked the people from Fonterra. 

Finally we went back inside and talked about what we had learnt. 

And it was a lot!!

We felt… happy, amazed, excited, good, amazing, 

fabulous, spectacular, proud and awesome

… about our visit from Fonterra.