Yummy Wednesday

Today it was cold and rainy again. We made ourselves warm by making yummy vegetable soup. First we looked at lots of different vegetables and had to tell Mrs E what they were. No-one knew what the parsnip was but Harry guessed that it might be a raddish because it looked a bit like one. We had parsnips, turnips, carrots, butternut pumpkin, Queensland Blue pumpkin, celery, zucchini, potatoes, sweet potatoes, broccoli and onions. For the soup we also had soup mix, chicken stock and pasta shells.
We got into groups and washed our hands. Then the adult gave us a knife, a plate and some vegetables to chop. Did yoou know that when you make soup and cut the vegies it's called dicing? We had to be VERY careful when we used the knives.
While we were cutting the vegies, Mrs N put some water, soup mix and chicken stock into three big pots and put them onto the stove top. We weren't allowed to go near them because they got very hot. When we had finished dicing the vegetables, Mrs E and Mrs N put them into the pot of boiling water. Mrs E took a video of the boiling soup so that we could see what was happening without getting burnt. Mrs M looked into the pot and couldn't see because her glasses got all fogged up!

Emily showed Callum how to cut the vegetables and he did a really great job. The celery was easy to cut.

Mrs E said that Sam was amazing at dicing. She said that she couldn't do it as good.

Ruby was very careful not to spill her vegetables.

Ella and Shannon cut up lots of sweet potato and zucchini.

When all the vegies were cut up they looked great. We were happy because Mrs E said we could eat any raw vegies we wanted to taste before we put them into the pots.

After computer and Phys Ed we came back into the classroom and tasted the soup. We all had to have at least one taste - and everyone liked it. We were allowed to have seconds if we wanted.

Mr C, our PE teacher, was happy that we asked him to stay for lunch. He said we were clever cooks. Maybe we should be MasterChefs!

                                                 YUMMY!


After the soup we went out to eat some lunch and have a play. SUDDENLY a big storm came and it started to rain and blow and hail.

                                     Rain and hail in the playground.


What a yummy day we had. We can make the soup at home too because we all told our adult helpers how to make the soup and they wrote it down for us. Mrs E called it "Pot Luck" soup!