Making Butter

We have been looking at Information books this term and have learnt many new things. We have read about pigs, cows, goats and many other interesting animals, people and topics. 
Did you know that an information book has a Contents page and a Glossary? Did you know that the author uses real photos? Or, did you know that each page has a different title?  No - well let us tell you all about it. All you have to do is ask me and I will tell you everything I know?

One of the facts we read, is that a goat produces more milk than any other farm animal. Even more than a cow. Did you know that milk can be used to make many different things such as yoghurt, thick cream, ice-cream, cheese and even chocolate!!!

Well today we decided to make butter and we learned that the things we need to make butter are called ingredients or materials.  Here are the ingredients we needed to use today:-

• one bottle of thick cream
• one container that has a lid and
• one marble

Next we had to predict how we were going to make the butter using these ingredients and materials and guess what - our predictions were right,

These were the steps we had to follow:-

1. OPEN the lid of the thick cream.

2. POUR the cream into the container just like this.

3. PUT the marble in the container with the cream.

4. SCREW the lid on the container (or jar) and make sure the lid is on tight.

5. SHAKE the container up and down just like this.

Oohhh not ready yet, keep shaking

Wow, getting there but still not ready. Keep on shaking.

            

Now just spill the water and give it a few more shakes. Can you see how the colour has changed?

And there you go....you have butter. You can even see the three different stages of making our butter.

This was so much fun that we are now going to use our butter to make some fairy bread. We can't wait. to taste our butter. We wonder what it will taste like?

Well...... guess what??? The butter tasted just like any other butter!

We used our butter today to make our Fairy Bread. Here is our procedure for making fairy Bread.

Our Title: Fairy Bread
Our Goal : To make Fairy Bread.
Our Ingredients:-

1. Butter
2. hundreds and thousands or sprinkles
3. sliced bread
4. a butter knife
5. a plate

The steps we followed to make our Fairy Bread:-

Step 1: Place a piece of bread on a plate.

Step 2: Cut the piece of bread in half.

Step 3: Put some butter on your butter knife and then spread the butter on your piece of bread just like this.

Step 4: Sprinkle some hundreds and thousands over your buttered bread just the way I am.

Step 5: Eat your fairy bread and enjoy! I know we are!!

Did you know that the words take, place, cut, spread, sprinkle and eat are all verbs. That means they are action/doing words. Can you think of other verbs that we can use when following a procedure???