Food of the Week...

Pumpkin/Paukena

Week 1's food of the week was Pumpkin/Paukena. We really enjoyed learning about this vegetable check out some of the things we learnt and did below.

• Did you know the biggest pumpkin in the world weighed 911kg!! 
• We learnt that in New Zealand we grow Crown, Butternut, Buttercup and Halloween pumpkins. 
• We made delicious pumpkin dip made out of a Butternut pumpkin (Everyone tried it). 
• We also did a science experiment to see whether pumpkin would sink of float. 
• We found out that our cut up pieces of butternut pumpkin sunk but cut up pieces of crown pumpkin float, and that a whole pumpkin floats too not matter what kind! 
• We tried pumpkin seeds and really liked them
• We learnt that it takes around 110 days to grow a pumpkin and that they the seeds should be planted in November/December

We are all really looking forward to the new food of the week next week which is ....CELERY!

Check out this pumpkin paddling video!!!