Grade+5+and+6+Cow+Tails


 * The Cow Tales of Grade Five and Six. **

Our goal was to learn about Dairy Nutrients as part of the Picasso Cow Project. All of us were involved in individual or partner activities relating to this. Please read on and share our journey. It has been fun and we have learned a lot.

** The Picasso Cow arrived at Swifts Creek Primary School in a horse float. There was lots of excitement and Michael was wondering just what Ms Lumby had got us into now. **

Mae, Melinda, Jess, Sarah and Brodi helped carry the bubble wrapped white cow into an unused classroom.



Brodi really is there; he's at the back end. No pat on the head we hope! Our cow visited the Principal's office for some weeks because it was "naked".

As an introduction to the Dairy Nutrient section of this project, all students and staff drank cold milk with a choice of Nesquik or Milo. A table was set up under one of our shade trees, and Ms Lumby and Anne Richardson (a parent), prepared healthy dairy drinks for us all. This was also the day we first met our new Art teacher - Mrs. Vuk.
 * //__ The Launch! __//**



Our Jess decorated a box in black and white patches to look like the skin of a dairy cow. It was to hold the name suggestions from all students in the school.
 * __The Naming Process__ **



The Grade 5 / 6 recorded all the suggested names on the board and then we voted for the best five names. These were: Squeeze For Milk -24 - 24 - 27 - 28 - lost Daisy -11 - 11 - 13 - eliminated Tinkerbell -1 so eliminated Peanut -7 - 7 - eliminated Milky Whey - 14 - 15 - 17 - 29

Every classroom was given a list of these names and each student had to number the boxes from one to five, one was the favourite.

We then made a tally of all the votes and the decision was ~

**Squeeze For Milk** -24 - 24 - 27 - 28 - lost
 * Daisy ** -11 - 11 - 13 - eliminated
 * Tinkerbell ** -1 so eliminated
 * Peanut ** -7 - 7 - eliminated
 * Milky Whey ** - 14 - 15 - 17 - 29


 * //And the winner was ...//**


 * //__ MILKY WHEY __//**



** As part of our Prep - Twelve investigations ..... **

On the 21st of May 2009 some of the Year 8s and 9s came to our class to tell us about the //**Cows Create Careers**// program. The first thing they showed us in a picture, was the pen where they kept the calves. Then they showed us a power point about the program in general.



**Today some of us went over to the high school and we made Yoghurt Apple Slice.**

//**Base ingredients: Step 1**// 1 cup of plain flour 1 cup of sugar 1 cup of coconut. 125 grams butter Put together everything except the butter in a bowl and mix. Melt 125 grams of butter in a hot pan Add melted butter to flour and mix. Place on tray and flatten with fingers. Cook in moderate oven for ten minutes.

2 cups stewed apples OR can sliced apples 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon Dutch cinnamon Spread on top of base.
 * //Filling Ingredients: Step 2//**

Put one cup of yoghurt in a bowl. Crack two eggs into the bowl of yoghurt. Cook in oven for twenty minutes. When it is cooked and golden brown, remove and cool, then eat.
 * //Topping ingredients: Step 3//**

Jacinta researched people's knowledge of Nutrients __//**
 * //__ Classroom Studies

I asked people in the 5/6 classroom if they have heard of these things. Calcium Potassium Magnesium Zinc Phosphorus Carbohydrate Protein Vitamin A Vitamin B12 Riboflavin This is the result.



And I also tested on which dairy foods they like best

**Cheese Milk Yoghurt Cream**

and here are the results.




 * //__ Michael's and Brodi's project on bones. __//**

We chose this topic because we thought it was interesting, and it had lots to do with milk, because milk has calcium and calcium is needed for healthy bones.



Brigette + Daisy's Project on Yoghurt! //**

For our project, we decided to do a powerpoint on Yoghurt! The slides include 'How to make Yoghurt', 'Types of Yoghurt', 'Why Yoghurt's good for you', 'The healthy living pyramid' and a couple of other interesting slides! We chose this topic because we like yoghurt and thought it'd be good to learn some more about it... and we definitely have! We hope you love our powerpoint!





**//__Jess's Cooking Experience __//**





__//Elizabeth and Conor's Dairy Project// __ Look at our powerpoint to hear about our project.





Sarah's Bone Project

// I decided to do a project on bones because they really interested me. I have learnt a lot about bones doing this project and I hope you will learn a lot too! My project (a powerpoint) is below. Also here is a picture of me painting my first picture on Milky Whey! I loved painting on Milky Whey and I think she looks a lot different from when we first got her!! //



//__** Erik and Kyles' Milk Project **__//

We started on our Power Point unsure of what we would do. We decided to research the nutritional value of milk.




 * //__Jessica and Monica's Project __//**

We did our project on the food pyramid. We decided to do our project on the food pyramid because we thought using it was a healthy way of living. We learnt the order of the foods in the pyramid and we also learnt that the dairy foods in the pyramid are a very important part of our diet. It was a very interesting topic to choose.



**Mae and Melinda's cheese project.** We chose to do our project on cheese because it was the only thing left. We learnt a lot about cheese during our research.




 * Daniel and Blaize's Powdered Milk Project **

We chose to research powdered milk because we wanted to see the difference between powdered milk and ordinary milk. We also wanted to see how the process worked.