Thursday, July 28, 2011

Our Reports on Apples

As part of our inquiry we are learning about different fruits and vegetables. Today we discovered some interesting facts about apples. We have read some of our reports for you.

Even More About Apples (mp3)
All About Apples (mp3)
More About Apples (mp3)

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Our Cooking Experiences

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Over the weekend we made different dishes and then we discussed whether or not they were healthy.
We thought that the Spring Rolls that Will made were sort of healthy. We thought that the fish sauce and soy sauce had too much salt but the ingredients of carrots, ginger, onion, garlic and cabbage made the Spring Rolls healthy.
Natasha's meal of Roast Lamb with rosemary and salad was healthy because it had lettuce, broccoli, carrots, beans and meat.
Peter's Chicken and Vegetable Stirfry was healthy because it had a lot of vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, leeks, baby corn, snow peas, beans and carrot).
Piers' Stirfry was also very healthy because it only had vegetables.
Adol made Chocolate Cookies and our class thought that they were not very healthy because they had one cup of sugar and a lot of chocolate.
Ben's Honey Carrots were sort of healthy. The carrots were the healthy part and our class thought that the butter and honey made the carrots unhealthy.
We thought that Jasmine's Vegie Man was very healthy because it was only made out of vegetables.
Grace made a Funny Face out of cheese, tomato, beans, carrot and lettuce. We thought that this was a healthy meal.

Our Investigation Continues



We were given the task of making a meal at home with our parents help. Our meal had to include at least one of the ingredients from our school vegetable patch. Lachlan made magnificent minestrone!
We then shared our recipes and discussed whether they were healthy. We had to share our ideas about what we think 'healthy' food is.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Our Investigation

As part of our inquiry unit 'Masterchef' we are investigating types of food and deciding whether they are healthy or unhealthy.
Today we went out to our vegetable patch where we planted vegetables and herbs last term. Our task was to investigate the types of vegetables that we planted and how they are growing. We listed the vegetables and herbs -

*beans
*parsley
*cabbage
*beetroot
*carrots
*chives
*spinach
*spring onions
*rosemary
*coriander
*capsicum
*broccoli
*leeks

When we came back in to our classroom we had to share recipes that we thought we could create using some of these vegetables. Some of the recipes we came up with were beetroot chips, vegetable soup, vegetable spring rolls, roast lamb with rosemary, salad and potato and leek soup.
Our challenge this weekend is to follow a recipe which incorporates one of these food items and photograph our creations. We will share some of these with you next week.