Our Gardening journey!

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Handing over the gardens to Year 1 students

Yesterday we invited Room 4 to come to Room 9 so we could talk to them about all the things we have been doing this year in our gardens and what we have learnt.  Then we all went out to the garden and helped pull out the old vegetables to make way for new planting next year.  The Year 1's are very excited about gardening!

We're famous!

The Eastern Courier visited and took photos and published an article about all our hard work and celebration lunch. Click here for the link

Harvesting for shared lunch

Room 9' s job for the shared lunch was to harvest and cook the kale.  We picked lots of kale leaves, washed them carefully, and then everyone had a turn at taking the stalks out and tearing the leaves into small pieces.  Then we put the kale on trays with oil and baked them in the oven - kale chips - yum!

Harvesting

Room 27 harvesting of the cabbages.

Harvesting

We are very excited about our shared lunch today. We harvested our beans this morning just before it started to rain. Lucky us! There were heaps and heaps of beans in the vege beds. Mmm!! It's going to be a yummy shared lunch. Can't wait!!

How to make Roast Potatoes

Ambury Farm

Room 27's visit to Ambury Farm

Ambury Farm

Trip to Ambury Farm

As part of our inquiry into sustainable communities we visited Ambury Farm to learn about where our food comes from.  

In this photo we saw the cows being milked and learnt that there is cream in the milk.

In this photo we made butter by shaking the cream in ajar with a marble lots of times and then we ate the butter on bread! It was delicious!

Carrot cupcakes

Yummy potatoes!!

Thank you Rooms 27 and 11. 

Room 8 really enjoyed the yummy roasted and boiled potatoes and the kale chips. We finished EVERYTHING on the plate. 

Yum, yum!!

Carrot cupcakes

We followed this recipe to make delicious carrot cupcakes. More photos to follow.

Kale Chips!!

Look at us enjoying our kale chips! We made them with some children from Room 27. First we harvested the kale. Then we broke the kale into bite sized pieces. We sprinkled olive oil and himalayan sea salt over them and baked them in the oven at 150 degrees for 15 minutes. They were so delicious Mrs Millar had to make more for all the Year 2s to share the next day!! Yum yum.

Recipe for kale chips

Kale chips anyone??

We love our yummy vegetables

Room 27 getting ready to harvest

It's potato time! Room 27 were so amazed at how big our potatoes have grown. We are looking forward to doing some exciting things with them over the next few weeks whilst we learn what we need to do to go from field to table.

The garden is nearly as big as us!

These beans have grown so much...just like us.

Harvesting and cooking

Spinach dip!

Thank you everyone in Room 10 - we thought your spinach dip was delicious especially with our own carrots from the garden - yum!

Spinach Dip

Room 10 went and harvested some spinach today. We shared it around with all of the year 2s and managed to polish off 1kg of sour cream and LOTS of spinach! Check out our recipes and see if you can make it at home. It's very easy and almost everyone loved it!

Kale and Spinach!

Next week we are going to make our very own kale chips! Today we decided to go and look at our gardens to see how they have grown over the holidays. Wow! We noticed lots of our plants have grown really well. We tried a little bit of kale raw to see what it tasted like. We also got to try some yummy spinach dip that Room 10 made with crackers. We thought it was delicious!

Amazing gardens!!

We were so amazed to come back to school after the holidays and see all our vegetables growing so well. We saw some carrots, cabbages, broccoli, spinach and some pretty flowers as well. Wow! We can't wait to harvest and cook our vegetables!

Who is hungry???

On the last day of term 3, Anthony brought in a recipe book to share with the class. Anthony had been talking about the vegetables at home. Anthony and his Mum had marked some pages in the recipe book, which had recipes that we could use next term. How exciting!

 

Yum Yum

During the last week of Term 3, Room 11 had some very welcome visitors from Room 9! Stephanie and Skye brought us their yummy spinach smoothie using our own spinach to try. Thank you Room 9, we loved it!! 

Spinach smoothies

How to make a spinach smoothie First we picked a spinach leaf each and washed them. Next we put the spinach in the blender with some pineapple, kiwifruit and banana. Then we blended the smoothie.Finally we drank the smoothie. It was yummy!

Garden acrostic poem

Progress!

We went out and took some great photos of our garden yesterday and it was really cool to look back at all of the changes! So much is growing! We cannot wait to pick some of the vegetables and make some delicious creations!

 Look how much it has changed!