StoryWeaver Grades 1 and 2📖 Stories⚙️ How Things Work

Ammachi's Amazing Machines

Rajiv Eipe · StoryWeaver · 1 min read
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An old lady with her tool kit and a boy washing his hands in the garden
An old woman and a young boy out in the garden

"Ammachi! Ammachi! Could we make coconut barfi today?" Sooraj asked his grandmother. "PLEEEEEAASE?"

A boy jumping with joy, a smiling old woman

"Hee hee hee! Only if you help me make it, eh?" replied Ammachi. "YAY!"

A boy helping his grandmother pick coconuts

"Ready?" shouted Sooraj.

"Ready!" said Ammachi.

An old woman picking coconuts with her grandson

"We’ll only pick the ripe ones, okay? The ones that are brown all over... Watch out! Here they come!" WHOOOSH... WHUMP!

A boy and his grandmother trying to cut open a coconut

"Now to get the husk off…" POTCH! CRAANKK!

A hungry boy and his laughing grandmother

Sooraj’s stomach went: "GRRRRRR!"

Ammachi giggled.

A grandmother cutting open a coconut, a boy with a bowl

"Then we crACK the shell… like THIS!"

KHATAK!

A boy grating coconuts in the kitchen

"And grrrrrraaaaate the frrrrrrrruuuit!"

Grandmother cooking and boy watching

"Toss it into the pan with all the other ingredients…" "It smells SO good, Ammachi!"

An old woman pouring food into a tray

"Then we pour it all out on to a tray… Wait for it to cool, baba!"

Grandmother cutting slices of coconut barfi

"Now cut it into neat little slices…"

SQUEAK SQUEAK

Grandmother and her grandson eating coconut barfi

"YIPPEE! Our coconut barfi is ready to be eaten!"

"YUM YUM YUM!"

Simple machines

Ammachi's barfi was made using SIMPLE MACHINES! Simple machines make it easier to do work. There are six kinds of simple machines:

1. Inclined plane
2. Lever
3. Wheel and Axle

Simple machines - Wedge, Pulley, Screw

4. Wedge
5. Pulley
6. Screw

Can you identify the simple machines that Sooraj and Ammachi used in the process of making coconut barfi?