Our Visit from Warren and Neil from Fonterra

Grass heads

Last week we made grass heads. We have looked at how cows eat grass and how it is turned into milk so thought we would grow our own grass (in a fun way).

Here are some photos:

What do you like about them?

What do you think will happen?

How do farmers take care of the environment?

This is a photo of an effluent pond at Miss Workman's farm.

This is what we know about effluent ponds. Listen to our audioboos. 

listen to ‘Courtney’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Ashton’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Katie’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Loren’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Megan’ on Audioboo
listen to ‘Aaron’ on Audioboo
listen to ‘Leah’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Makayla’ on Audioboo

We know that effluent ponds are good for our environment because farmers make fertilizer and spread it on the paddocks to make the grass healthy for the cows to eat.

What did you learn?

What do you know about effluent ponds?

Our Dairy Farm visit is tomorrow!

Miss Workman took some photos to get us thinking and excited about tomorrows visit to her Dairy Farm!
What can you see in these photos? What will it be like? What questions do you have?

Making Butter

Today we watched this video on how to make butter.

Then we made our very own butter!
Watch our animoto! We hope you enjoy it!



This is how we made our butter:

1. We poured cream into two glass jars for two groups and put the lid on tightly
2. We sat in two circles and shook the jars for about 5 minutes
3. We poured out the buttermilk out that had been separated from the butter
4. Then we rinsed the butter with water
5. Then we tipped out our butter
6. Then we spread our butter on bread and ate it!

It was yum and just like real butter! We thought our butter was much more yellow than the man that made in the video above. That's because our cows must have eaten more green grass. Greener grass = yellower butter.