Week 2: June 8 - 12 - Farm to Table

Farm to Table

Week 2 - June 8 - 12:  Making Food with items from the Garden and Farm

Building upon our 5 senses that we explored in Week 1, we will go into the garden, making pickles from cucumbers, jam from berries and butter from cream. 

Chef Buchanan visits again with his chickens and we'll taste hard-boiled eggs. 

The Botanic Gardens will wrap-up the week with a presentation on worms and dirt, helping us to understand the importance of worms in producing healthy soil in the garden to help us grow produce. Next week, we'll move into bugs, and explore insects and spiders. 

Our originally scheduled Petting Zoo has been postponed until June 26th with the sudden passing of a beloved Holy Rosary parishoner. The Petting Zoo is in Spalding Green - a park section of the Parish parking lot; many people will attend the funeral mass and a petting zoo would be disruptive. We can't wait to see the goats, lama, pony, pig, chickens, roosters and bunnies on Friday, June 26th.

June 8:     Cucumber to Pickle

• 9:00 -    9:45       3K
• 9:45 -   10:30     4K1
• 10:30 - 11:00     4K2
• 10:00 - 10:45       K1
• 10:45 - 11:30       K2

Using simple ingredients (salt, sugar, peppercorns, mustard seed, dill, garlic and cucumbers), preschoolers will transform cucumbers to pickles! They will practice fine-motor skills while measuring, pouring and shaking the ingredients! 

They will use their sense of touch, smell, and taste while preparing the recipe. 

They will practice patience while waiting for the brine to work it's magic on the cukes!! 

June 9      Strawberry Jam

Using 3 simple ingredients, (fresh fruit, sugar and pectin) children will make a homemade berry jam that they'll test on bread with homemade butter we make on Thursday! 

Strawberry jam will be made in 4 classrooms; blueberry or blackberry will be used in the 4K1 classroom with a strawberry allergy.

June 10     Water Wednesday

Please send your child in a swimsuit with a towel and change of clothes!! Please label all items!!

June 11      Making Butter from Cream 

Children will shake, shake, shake jars of cream to create the best butter ever! We'll try it on bread with homemade jam!! 

June 12     Botanic Gardens - Worms and Dirt

The Botanic Garden visits to introduce us to worms and the important job they do to create healthy gardens. 

also on June 12: Chef Buchanan and Chickens! 

The amazing Chef Jordan returns this week with backyard chickens!

and Ice Cream Dream Machine:

An ice cream truck will visit our school in the afternoon. Preschool children will enjoy snacks after nap. Kindergartners will enjoy snack after story time with Mrs. Douglas.