We had a short week but accomplished so much! As a pre-Thanksgiving activity, we baked our signature bread, Huck-A-Buck Bread! We were so excited because this was the first baking activity this year. The children were very careful measuring ingredients and following directions. Of course, the children did not forget to sing the Huck-A-Buck Bread song while kneading the dough! Oh, what beautiful bread the children made! Before we tasted our bread, we had a science lesson making butter the old fashioned way. First, we discussed characteristics of liquid and solid. Next, we put heavy whipping cream into the jars and started shaking them like crazy! Soon Heavy cream started thickening and we did not hear it sloshing. We checked what's happening in the jars...the butter was forming! We continued shaking the jars. In a few minutes, we started hearing sloshing sound again. We opened the jars and saw two different matters, solid and liquid! Each jar had a lump of butter and pale white liquid. How interesting! The children learned that heavy cream has small globs of butter and they stick together when we shake the cream. They also learned that the pale white liquid was buttermilk. The children enjoyed their handmade bread and butter! They were so delicious!! Enjoy more pictures! The children made their mind movie films of Tomie dePaola's visualizing lesson and more attribute charts.
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The children enjoyed another Tomie dePaola's book, "The Baby Sister" creating a mental image/mind movie. It is important for readers to create pictures in their minds as they read. Since the brain likes to see pictures of what we are asking it to comprehend, visualizing will help readers to have a better understanding of the stories. Visualizing is an essential comprehension skill. I read the book aloud to the children at a moderate pace and paused to let them close their eyes to visualize the story. And then, the children transferred their mental pictures and some words from the story on to paper. We repeated this process until I finished reading aloud the story. After sharing what they visualized, sketched, inferred, etc., it was time to unveil the real illustrations. The children enjoyed comparing their mind movies to the illustrations in the book. When we entered our classroom Friday morning, we could not believe our eyes! Toy dinosaurs had invaded our math corner!! Yes, it's "Dinovember," when plastic dinosaurs come to life while we sleep. They made a huge mess! However, we were so glad that some dinosaurs enjoy math as much as we do. HAPPY DINOVEMBER! Our field trip to the JCA Magic Wardrobe Theatre was fun! We enjoyed the play, "Welcome to America: The First Thanksgiving." We had lunch during the character meet & greet. At the beginning of the show, Finn and Myo were invited to the stage and did the Hokey Pokey with the actors. Wow! They showed cool moves and steps on the stage! Thank you for sharing the video, Mrs. Harnek! On Friday Ollie gave us a presentation of his recent trip to Philadelphia and San Francisco. He shared his travel journal and souvenirs, including beautiful leaves from Philadelphia. Thank you, Ollie!
We planted some vegetable seeds into our class garden two weeks ago. They, especially the radishes, are growing very well! On Tuesday we thinned out some of the radish seedlings. Since radish sprouts are very nutritious, we did not throw them away. Instead, we ate them for our afternoon snack. Some children had never had radishes or radish sprouts and did not care for the taste but it's okay. The children have been enjoying Tomi dePaola's author study. We have read four books so far. I thought it was time for them to create attribute charts. I divided the class into four groups. Each group was assigned to one of the books and made a beautiful chart! I knew they would since they did a super job on Kevin Henkes' books last year. We will be adding a few more charts before we complete this author study...so stay tuned. |
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