Butter is actually quite simple to make so it's a great choice of activity if you want to demonstrate a food process (minus milking the cow)! Although, you need to work those muscles so a little strength is required. We watched a video to start, which I embedded below. It is short and informative :) The kids shook away until the the butter separated from the butter milk and solidified. We poured out the butter milk, added water to the butter and gave it a shake to get rid of any butter milk left over and then poured that out. What was left? THE BUTTER!! Tomorrow we are going to make pita bread and enjoy our butter! :) Check out the kindergarten blog to see more pics!
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During our unit exploration today, we talked about food choices. Some healthy and some...well, not so healthy. After our short discussion, it was time for an imaginary grocery store visit. We planned to fill two grocery carts, one with healthy food choices and one with junky food choices. The students cut out different images of food that they would later glue onto their grocery cart. They worked really hard to cut out the food as they followed the lines...a little fine motor practice ;) Check back soon to see our finished products! First off, thank you Pinterest for being a fun tool to find all sorts of creative learning activities! I introduced this game to the kids last week and after a few times of playing with them, they will be able to play it on their own and explore the world of addition and subtraction a little more! They played in groups, practiced taking turns and used math vocabulary! Using a number line and homemade dice, we roll away and add or subtract whatever number we land on. Since our unit relates to food, we used pictures of food as the game pieces. When students land in the negative they start back at one. As we are a little young to start introducing negative numbers...they at least get some exposure to the math vocab! At the start of our unit, From Field to Table, one of the student questions was "Where does honey come from?". Well, we inquired into this through books and videos and found out how bees make honey but there was one part that we didn't cover...that is until yesterday! I found a fantastic document online detailing the process honey went through in the factory before it was delivered to stores for purchasing. After printing and laminating, we were ready to check it out and make our own honey factory! The students got into groups and planned how they would go about making their honey factory. They decided on what materials to use and delegated parts of the factory to each of their team members. They referred back to the plans every so often. Their creativity and teamwork was spectacular and their factories were fantastic! Proud of those little monkeys! Below is the PDF we used, check it out and look it over with your kids!
To start English class today, the students listened to a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. A little exposure to classic literature ;)
Mme Alex asked the students if they knew who he was and one of the responses that I had to share was "Yes! He's a bird!" Oh kinder kids...never fail to put a smile on our faces! |
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