A Butter-Makin Day
2nd Graders experience pioneer life
by Ann Ellen Brown
March 25, 2008
Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Riner's classes met together in January to make butter to celebrate Kansas Day. Students enjoyed chanting a butter-makin rhyme while each got a turn cranking the antique butter churn handle. The students also shook a quart jar of cream to simulate the "constant jarring" of the covered wagon as the pioneers would make butter while traveling across the prairie. After comparing the two ways of making butter, the students all agreed it would have been easier to have the butter made by the jarring of the covered wagon. Afterwards, everyone sampled the taste of the butter on a freshly made corn-muffin made earlier in the day.
