2020 Garden to Table: Lemonade

 
Miss Donnell showed us the lemonade tree growing outside Room 26/27. There were so many lemons growing on the tree but no one was using them! We decided that we would make some lemonade. First we had to pick the lemons off the tree. It was quite tricky to pick them all off.

 

We picked off so many lemons but we didn't know how many we had! Miss Donnell showed us how to put the lemons into groups of 10 so we could use our skip counting knowledge. After we had put them all into groups of 10 we counted each group. We had a total of 268 lemons.

 

Then we had to sort the lemons. Some lemons were bruised, were too small and had green on them. We made a pile of lemons that we could use for our lemonade, and the rest of them lemons went into our compost bin.

 

 Miss Donnell found a great lemonade recipe and an activity to show us how we make the lemonade and what ingredients we need. Our biggest job was juicing all of the lemons. It was tricky to try and squeeze all the juice out.

While we were juicing the lemons, Miss Donnell mixed the sugar and boiling water together to make a syrup. Once we had all the juice, we mixed the syrup, lemon juice and cold water together. We had to put our big pitcher of lemonade in the freezer to cool down.

           
                                                                 Here is us having our first taste of lemonade!