Celebrations around the world!

Our home task was to research a celebration from another culture and discuss the food the people might eat.  

Lily chose to interview her aunty Dianne, on the celebration Perahera (Budder's tooth) from the country Sri Lanka. 

Question 1: How many times have you been to Sri Lanka? 
Answer 1: Two times 

Q2: What was the best thing about Sri Lanka? 
A2: The people. They always have a smile on their face and they are really poor. 

Q3: What was your favourite area? 
A3: Galle

Q4: What was your favourite food? 
A4: Her favourite food was they tasty bananas. 

Q5: What what was your favourite thing about the Perahera? 
A5: The elephants, because they are covered in jewellery and beautiful cloth.    

What food do you enjoy in Sri Lanka? Is it different to my aunties? 


Edie chose to research Thanks Giving, a celebration from North America.
She discovered from using Wikipedia that in America they eat deer, corn, self fish, roasted meat and cranberries.


Do you eat different foods at your family thanks giving dinner? 

Ella chose to research Carnaval from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
She discovered three days before Ash Wednesday in lent, one of the worlds most spectacular Carnivals takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Carnival means carne vale 'good bye to meat'
In the performances the percussionists wear 3 colours, pink, green and silver. The food that you will see is, Pineapple, Linguica (sausage on a stick), Guava, coconut milk, chicken parcels and pipoca (pink popcorn).    

By Ella



Lily asks: What food do you enjoy in Sri Lanka? Is it different to my aunties? 

Edie asks: Do you eat different foods at your family thanks giving dinner? 

Ella asks: Have you enjoyed a Carnaval experience? 

Discoveries at the Little Saigon Market and a Vietnamese Restaurant.

Little Saigon Market

The Grade 3/4's went on a long journey to the Asian Market in Footscray.
There was a range of fruits and vegetables, meat and fish, and a deli market. We saw and tried lots of different foods we have never seen before such as Pomelo, Mangosteens and Kwima.

We had a task to buy one or two ingredients for an Asian inspired dish, that we planned to cook for our families at home. We recorded the cost of our food.

After we did our shopping at the market, we visited a Vietnamese restaurant and ate delicious, fragrant, sweet Pho with noodles, bean shoots and side of green tea.

We really enjoyed our experience at the market.

Edie's Fried Rice

Xander's Chicken Stir Fry

Jack's Fried Rice

Emily's Drawing of a Pomelo

Ella's drawing of a Bitter Melon

Alex's drawing of a bitter melon

Eleanor's Lamb Salad 

What is your favourite Asian dish and why do you like it? 

What interesting foods do you find in your local market that we might not see in Melbourne? 

Welcome to MSC and MSD Inquiry Blog

Our focus for this term is 'What do other children around the world eat and why?'
We have written key understandings to help us with our inquiry.
Our key understandings highlight how important food is for everyone's life
1. Why do some children not get enough food.
2. Food and the rituals around food are an important part of all cultures.

The first part of our inquiry was to predict what children eat in other countries. We then began our own research to find out what children eat in other countries and why?
This will help us to compare other countries food to ours.