Mother of Divine Grace Primary School

The Beetroot Project

One sunny day in September teacher took us out to our school garden. We were going to harvest the beetroot. All the children stood around the beetroot bed. We took turns to pull up the beetroot. It was easy to pull it up. We held on to the stalks and just . . . . . . . PULLED !
We put it in a bag and took it into our classroom. We examined the beetroot and noticed that it had green curly leaves, purple stalks and a purple ‘beetroot’ ! We drew ‘still life’ drawings using oil pastels.

We looked at a video – ‘How to cook beetroot’. Then teacher cooked the beetroot. We all tasted the beetroot when it was cooked. Colin and Marysia, from Poland, nearly ate it all !!!

There was a lot of beetroot juice. We painted patterns on kitchen roll with the juice.

Teacher found a recipe for ‘Beetroot and Chocolate Cake’ ! We all made up recipes in our ‘Free Writing’ copies.

Then teacher baked ‘Beetroot and Chocolate cake’ for us all !

It was . . . . . . . . . . . YUMMY !!!

We had a wonderful time doing our ‘Beetroot’ project. The bed is empty in the garden now but we will plant something else this week. Watch out for more ‘Garden Adventures’ from everyone in Room 18.