Exploring Bread
11/10/2018
This week we began exploring our new study topic: Bread. We had group discussions and shared writings about what we already know about bread. We sorted different toy breads into different categories to get us thinking about bread: flat bread and rounded, circle shaped bread and not circle shaped bread. The explorers cut out food pictures and glued them onto a graph of bread and not bread. This activity brought up questions about what makes a food bread. Some thought a taco was bread because on "the outside of the meat there is bread," others thought tacos were not bread because they had lettuce and tomatoes in them. Spaghetti was also a gray zone, some sorted it into the bread category because noodles are "the same color as bread and soft and chewy." This led us into a discussion of what we wanted to learn about bread during our study. The explorers also became excited about having a pretend bakery in out classroom. We worked together to transform our tree center into a bakery. We made bakery signs and collected items from the kitchen to mix pretend breads and cakes. On Thursday we made salt dough and sculpted models of different breads we wanted to have in our bakery center. The students made bagels, pretzels, long breads, gingerbread men, round breads, and flat breads. On Friday we read "The Little Red Hen" and then went through some of the same steps to make our own loaf of bread. The explores enjoyed being bakers and learning how to knead the soft dough. (Unfortunately we had oven difficulties and the bread was not fully baked by the time school was over. We will get to try the bread on Monday. ) More highlights from the week: art projects, tall buildings, and a Spanish fiesta.
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