Trips Sept - Oct

15/9/16
On Ben's first day at college, Luke, Amy and I headed to St Annes to make the most of the lst of the summer. It was a bit hazy during the morning but brightened up after lunch. Here they are on the prom

and doing some Maths on the beach

It was a long way to the sea so we just made our own moat!

Muller Wiseman visit 23/9/16

Learnt all about the process of milk getting from the farm to the fridge. The dairy works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year so we can have our milk for breakfast!

The tankers can hold up to 30,000 litres and are insulated to keep the milk cool. They collect the milk at each farm once a day and the driver checks the quality and takes a sample. This is tested again when the tanker returns to the dairy.

Once the tanker arrives at the dairy, another sample is taken before the milk can be transferred to large chilled silos. Each of these holds up to 250,000 litres.From the silos, the milk goes to be pasteurised, which involves heating the milk very quickly to 72oC for a minimum of 25 seconds and then cooled to ensure there are no germs.

The cream is then separated from the milk before being combined to make the different types of milk, including whole milk and semi–skimmed milk. Whole milk is homogenised to mix the cream with the milk.

The milk is then packaged into cartons, plastic or glass bottles. All of which are colour-coded into the different types of milk, skimmed (red), semi skimmed (green), whole (blue) and 'the One' (purple).

Dewlay Cheese 29/9/16

Thought we would follow up the milk visit with a trip to a cheese makers as I'd spotted this place close to Bens college

We were surprised how much was done by hand.

We purchased some yummy creamy Lancashire from the shop ;)

6/10/16 Visited Andrea in Blackpool and had a walk along the front

13/10/16 Afternoon walk with the Welbys

ENWC Oct Pond Study

On Friday we visited out local park to see what was going on at the pond in Autumn

Three pairs of Mallards watched us carefully

Emergent plants

Think these are flag iris

Water lilies (partially submerged)

Lots of duckweed at this end

A view from up the hill

Here are our nature journals

ENWC Sept Seeds

We have started to look at Exploring Nature with Children.

We took a walk round Kersall Moor with some friends and observed different types of seeds and discussed how they were spread - by animals, wind or self dispersal. The favourites were these balsam seeds which they had great fun "popping!" Oh dear - not helping to reduce their spread are we.

Here are our notebook pages 

Summer crafting

I have been making and selling some small crochet items in aid Of The Message Trust where Paul has just started working