July 26, "Milk Products"

This class was devoted to farm animals again, cows mostly. We remembered the song “Old MacDonald had a Farm”. Then we talked about what cows give us. As we found out, cows give us milk. But how do we get milk? We have to milk the cow.

We then learned a song “Milk Your Cow” as the literacy activity:

Milk, milk, milk your cow,

Sitting on a stool:

Pulling, squirting, pulling, squirting,

Till the bucket’s full.

The hands-on activity for this class was making a butter and ice-cream.  For butter we used a container that can close tight. We put some marbles in and had to shake it to make it thick, like butter. For ice-cream we used special containers, “Ice-Cream Magic”. We had to put ice and salt on the bottom, whipping cream, with added drops of vanilla and sugar in the top container. We all shook al the containers taking turns. The product of our cooperation was then split into cups and shared. It was delicious!

Home practice: Make a flavored ice-cream. You can take heavy whipping cream and add vanilla or chocolate extract or powder and freeze it! Your scientist will love that!

July 22, "What is a farm?"

This class was the introductory class about animals.  We began by sharing what we already know about farm animals.  Then we sang a song “Old MacDonald had a Farm”. We then talked about the sounds that different animals make.

Our literacy activity was to portray an animal with sounds and mimicry and the rest had to guess the animal. The scientists loved it! They had to pick an animal puzzles pieces and mimic them. It was a lot of fun!

The hands-on activity for this class was making a paper bag puppet – a sheep. This took a little longer than expected, mostly because every child liked it so much that they wanted it to be perfect, so all needed “help” to some extent.

Home practice: I recommend to sing “Old MacDonald had a Farm”