Monday, June 11, 2012

Milk And Butter

I've written before how impressed I am with DD's nursery and the fantastic ideas the fantastic staff (Raheli, Linda, Tina, Ruti and Na'ama) come up with. A couple of weeks ago they learned about where milk comes from. They actually got to milk a cow without leaving the nursery.


I can't show the whole cow as the pictures the nursery teacher sent us (both photos are from the nursery) each show a different child milking her (with rubber glove udders) and I don't want to post other children online. Suffice to say, it's a big smiling cow that looks like she's standing on the table.

The next day they put some milk and a little salt in a bottle and shook things up to make butter, which they ate spread on bread for their snack.


We're going to miss this nursery next year :(.

12 comments:

  1. This is a super idea. I've started a gardening club at my children's school and am amazed at how few kids know what food grows naturally and how.

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    1. Gardenng club sounds good. Your comment reminds me of the BBC APril fool spoof about the spaghetti trees in Italy.

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  2. That's really great. How inventive. Sounds like a wonderful nursery.

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    1. It's the best. Even people who've left say there's no one like Raheli.

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  3. Wow, that is a very clever nursery! I hope 'big school' is as inventive.

    xx Jazzy

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    1. We have two more years of kindergarten but I have high hopes for next year when we start in a new place.

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  4. Nothing like hands on activities to learn from. What a great nursery. It sounds as though you will miss it as much as DD.
    I had never seen how brussel sprouts grew in spirals on stalks until I saw them being sold in the grocery store here. My boys' school has a school garden. I think it's great that they are being reminded that fruit and vegetables do not grow pre-washed in plastic bags and that milk was not originally from a carton.
    Gillyx

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    1. I'd forgotten about brussel sprouts growing in spirals. I haven't seen that in years.

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  5. I'd forgotten pre-washed vegetables in plastic bags :)

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    1. I assume you mean you'd forgotten what veg was like before they came pre-washed in plastic bags rather than you'd forgotten about the pre-washed bags of veg - seeing as you go to the supermarket every week and there they are. Thanks for commenting Steph. :)

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