Harvest Unit Week Two – Beatrice’s Goat

Butter Battle 2010

The Boy is 2 and 0 going up against the Kitchen Aid in the Butter Battle. For Week Two of the Harvest Unit our weekly activity was making fresh, homemade butter. We like to turn it into a contest… boy verses machine. Well the girls actually started the butter battle but just didn’t have the stamina for it. After rolling the mason jar filled with whipping cream across the kitchen floor for a few minutes they were done. Making the bread was more their speed. So they called in reinforcements. Bug was pulled away from his Legos and entrusted with the jar. And once again he achieved butter before the mixer. Ohhh so yummy on the fresh bread the girls made.

To make your own butter add a pint of heavy whipping cream and a couple teaspoons of salt to your mixing bowl (don’t add the salt until the end if you would like to save your butter milk). Mix on med-low speed until you past the point of stiff peaks. Keep going until you reach what looks almost like scrambled eggs in milk. You can use a strainer to drain away the butter milk.

You can also make butter by putting a smaller amount of cream in a mason jar, making sure the lid is on tight and then shaking away. If you have a group of children you can play a ‘Hot Potato’ game with the jar to keep it moving.

We also enjoyed our “Not Back to School Day” as our district started up again this past Tuesday with some friends at the farm. We took a sack lunch and met up with our great group of homeschooling friends after we finished our morning lessons. We got to see lots of goats… including some super sweet babies nursing. The kids also took a romp through the now ready corn maze and received an impromptu lesson on adobe building and maintenance as the staff at the farm was fixing an adobe building on site. They were quite happy to have children help and then told the kids they could pick as many green beans as they could find.

If you have been working on Tops and Bottoms and would like to share your adventures with us, remember to add you blog links in the comments below (if you have blogged about this week more than once you are welcome to add multiple links).

 

 

 

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Harvest Time Week Two – Beatrice’s Goat

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry I was late getting this week’s post up… everything was off due to the holiday on Monday. I had originally planned to post an introduction post every Monday but am now thinking that it might be better to just do one post later in the week that included some of our photos.

This week we are working on Week Two of our Harvest Time unit. I will be posting a weekly update to give everyone a space to chat about the program. If you would like more information about the program you can learn more and download the free homeschooling curriculum on our Harvest Time page. All of the directions for the art projects, recipes and activities are included in the curriculum guide. If your family is participating in the Harvest Time curriculum either for homeschooling or after school enrichment we would love to hear about it! Please leave a comment in this post in regards to your experiences with Harvest Time’s Week Two activities. You are welcome, and highly encouraged to leave links to your Harvest Time’s Week Two blog posts or pictures in the comment section of this post.

Harvest Time Week Two
Primary Book: Beatrice’s Goat,
Enrichment Book: Milk:From Cow to Carton,
Activities: Butter Battle,
Field Trip Idea: Bakery,
Art: Siyavush Plays Polo,
Poem: Little Boy Blue,
Flower Fairies: Fushia & Coloring Page

Links from Our first time completing the Unit…
Butter Battle 2008

If your family is working on the Harvest Time curriculum either full time or just for some family fun enrichment, you are welcome to add the Harvest Time button on your website. You can save the button to you computer and upload as a photo to your site (you may want to link it back to the Main Harvest Time Page https://weefolkart.com/content/harvest-time-preschoolkindergarten-curriculum) or just copy the green text below and add it to you site.