G2T


 * Room 11 participate in the Garden to Table programme which runs at Meadowbank School. In 2009, our school was chosen to be one of 3 pilot programmes for this programme and we are loving the experience. The G2T programme follows 4 main principles; GROWING, HARVESTING, PREPARING and SHARING!**


 * Every 2nd Wednesday we spend the morning blocks either in the garden with Mrs Masters or in the kitchen with Mrs Silvester. During the gardening session we do a range of activities which include: harvesting the vegetables for the cooking session, planting new vegetables or plants in our many vege and flower gardens, collecting seeds, garden maintenance or other exciting hands-on tasks. While half of the class in is the garden the other half is cooking lunch for the class to enjoy together. We make a range of different foods which encourage us to eat our vegetables! Lots of us are more willing to try new things because we have grown the produce from scratch! Most of us have become fantastic cooks and therefore take our cooking skills homes and share them with our family - preparing meals on a regular basis!**

http://garden2table.wikispaces.com/
 * All of the recipes and other exciting news can be found on the G2T wiki space at**

**Below are some photos from different G2T session throughout this year. Most of the photos are from the kitchen but more gardening shots will be added soon!**

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**__Wednesday 5 May, 2010__ - During our session today we completed a Part/Whole map on the three recipes. Some of the photos are included in the slideshow above. Miss Bryant chose some of the key ingredient from each recipe and when we weren't cooking or preparing we could think about the function of that ingredient and what would happen to the recipe if we did not add it. This got us thinking about why we used certain things in certain recipes.**

**Wednesday 19 May, 2010 - Click on the following link to see a compare and contrast map we have done as a class about recipes using the chocolate and beetroot combination!** This week we made two different salads (roasted beetroot with feta cheese and a bean/pea shoot green salad). The children also made pita bread pockets and a white bean dip. We decided that the dip was very similar to hummus. For our sweet item we made Anakiwa Flapjacks - totally confusing as flapjacks should be pancakes but in this case it was more like a slice - this is because in the UK they call a slice a flapjack. media type="custom" key="6839485" media type="youtube" key="ilCc7lNnCOU?hl=en" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="X43JaVv8b2g?hl=en" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="9euRJ0Gb8vU?hl=en" height="344" width="425" align="left"