Beet Cupcakes

The January Harvest of the Month was Beets.  We decided what better way to eat them, than to bake them up in a delicious cupcake! Needless to say we all enjoyed them! 

                                                            Mixing the batter... 

                                                             Measuring ingredients- 

                                                Pouring the liquid mixture into the dry mixture

                                                                      Filling the cupcake liners! 

                                                                Fresh out of the oven! 

                                                  Making Butter! 

We have been studying states of matter in science and wanted to see what happened when we took a liquid, heavy cream, and really shook it! Well, after a lot of shaking we found a couple different things, we made whipped cream, which turned into butter and strained out some buttermilk. So we ended up with a solid and a different kind of liquid. Wow! Second graders have really been enjoying eating butter on crackers. We are hoping to use the buttermilk to bake with soon too! 

                                                             Enjoying the butter! 

                                                                     Shaking the butter!

                                                     Nature Art

We had a great time collecting items from nature, arranging them in trays and pouring water in to freeze them. Once frozen we hung them in our forest space!