Mrs Elliot came to visit us in her ambulance. She is training to be a paramedic. Shad put it perfectly in his story when he wrote, "Her work car is so cool!"
Mrs Elliot talked to us about the equipment they carry in the ambulance. She is showing us the defibrillator.
Shad got his heart checked! His heart beat was very healthy. 💓
James listened to Mrs Elliot's heart with a stethoscope.
Mrs Elliot's big bag has everything...
...even a sick bag
This is the bleeding pocket.
We know all about plasters but inside the bleeding pocket was something new to us. It is called a tourniquet. They use this most often with the army to stop bleeding when people are a long way away from a hospital.
We got to walk through the ambulance.
We are SUPER glad there are people like Mrs Elliot to help us when we are really sick or injured! 😊👍
In our big book this week all Hetty Hacket wanted was a farm with animals that were quiet. She tried having different farm animals on her farm but each kind made a racket all day... and all night! Finally, she had had enough so she had a worm farm.
We went on a worm hunt so we could write about these wiggly squiggly creatures!
We found long thin slimy ones, big fat juicy ones, incy wincy squemmy weemy worms. See how they wiggle and squirm! We hope to share some of our stories with you once they are finished!
Xin Rui has all the ingredients
of a Cornerstone Kingdom Kid. She is respectful, diligent, honest, kind and
humble. To this she adds a large dollop of joy. The result is a person we love
learning with and being with. Xin Rui you make our classroom better just by
being you.
On Fridays we do all sorts of things with our sound of the week. Here is what we did for 'b'
Friday Poem: Betty Botter - A Tongue Twister
We practised our tall lower case b's. Terrific letter height Xin Yun and Eric! We sounded out and wrote words with the 'b' sound.
Our big book this week was called Mr Bitter's Butter. Poor Mr Bitter had no butter for his best baked bread so we made him some. We hoped it wouldn't be bitter butter, but better butter than Betty Botter's butter.
Webrainstormed what is in butter we thought maybe eggs, milk, sugar, flour and water. It turns out all you need is CREAM!
We all had a go beating the cream. The cream was very thin and runny to start with. We had to beat the cream really fast to cause the change we wanted!
The more webeat the cream the thicker itbecame! Eventually, the cream started to separate and we could see a liquid (buttermilk) and a solid (butter). This happened more and more until we could see a whole lot of solid and a whole lot of liquid. The solid got harder as the liquid separated from it. This is the solids we took out of the buttermilk.
Then we wrapped it up in a tea towel and squeezed it until there was no more liquid coming out of it. Ta-da! We had made butter! It was perfect the our best baked bread. Yum!
Everybody knows thebest way to eatbread andbutter is under bubbles!
