Colonial Day for 3 classes of 26 kids...

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carianna-in-wa

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The woman I'm subbing for is coming back from maternity leave in a week. smileys/frown.gif We've been studying the early colonization of America in our Social Studies classes and I'd like to end with some kind of Colonial Day with the kids.

I was thinking about making the bread below and then having the kids make butter in class.

Technical issues:

1. I'd need enough bread to feed around 80 kids, and it has to be baked ahead of time at my house since I don't really have a way to accomplish that at school. Freeze the loaves ahead, do you think? Make 8 loaves?

2. The kids are already grouped into "colonies" of 5 or 6 kids. I'd like to have each colony make butter so they can take turns shaking. How much heavy cream will I need to make enough for each colony to share their own butter? 1/2 cup? 3/4 cup?

3. There is very little time between classes, so I need clean up and set up to be quick!

Thoughts?

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Colonial-Brown-Bread/Detail.aspx

 
Any chance they would let you use the school cafeteria's ovens? Interesting,

the bread recipe only has 6 ingredients, and your colonies are 6 children. Perhaps make it a 2 day project? Day 1 have them make the bread? (each colony make a mini loaf, (1/4 recipe), baked in cafeteria, then day 2 make the butter???

What a nice thought out activity that you are doing for the last week with "your kids." I am sure you were a wonderful sub, and the teacher was able to enjoy her time with the new baby knowing that the class was in your capable hands. They were all very lucky to have you.

Good luck in your next assignment and have fun with this project.

OH, ALSO, highly recomend a test run of the butter. I made this years ago, and it took alot longer than expected. Seriously test it out with not only the measurements, but also the exact jar or container that you will use. Would recommend some quick moving colonial music in the background to ensure the kids shake it well!!

Best,
Barb

 
Props to this quick bread... I was amazed at how it turned out given the limited ingredients.

I made 8 loaves tonight, and I'm bummed I didn't buy more ingredients. I wish I had made one more batch for the family. This is definitely on my "bake" list for this weekend.

Fast, fast, FAST and nummy! I made it as the recipe stated except I added one generous T. of molasses.

 
What a great thing to do with the students Carianna. Did you do the

butter and if so how did it go?

 
We did it yesterday... as my facebook status said, "Houston, we have BUTTER!"

It worked great! The kids shook a pint canning jar of 3/4 cup heavy cream and it turned into butter in about 6 minutes or so. Only 5 kids out of the 78 didn't care for the bread, which is a pretty good ratio. Lots of kids wanted seconds.

It was tons of fun and a nice "goodbye" for me since Monday is my last day teaching these kids on a daily basis. I've been doing a maternity leave since October, and the teacher is coming back on February 1st. Back to regular subbing for me. smileys/frown.gif

 
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