Merry Thoughts!
12/21/2018
As we end the last week of school before winter break I wanted to express how grateful I am to be able to get to know all of our wonderful Explorers. To learn what makes them laugh, what makes them excited, what brings them joy. It has been a privilege to watch them learn, to see them connecting ideas and experiences, and to see their faces when they discover something new about our world. I am so grateful to have such engaged learners who readily share their ideas and love. Thank you families for sharing your students with me and giving me the opportunity to be their teacher. This has been a great semester and am looking forward to the next. A Recap from Last WeekWe started last week with a bread taste test. Everyone had a chart to fill out and we tasted different breads that they had suggested wanting to try at the beginning of our study. We tasted 8 different breads including bagels, cheese breads, raisin breads, tortillas, and pitas. We had discussions about what flavors surprised us and what we learned about what we liked. Our Explores were very into this activity and the excitement of experimenting with new flavors. We added one more baking tool to our study last week: a bread maker. The bread maker was a wonderful way for the students to watch all steps of the breadmaking processes, especially the rising. We attempted two different loaves with two different yeasts. This turned out to be a happy accident as one yeast was no longer active and perfectly demonstrated the work that yeast does in dough. The bread maker bread turned out to be our favorite yet! Our final bread activity was to make and write new sandwich recipes. We used breads from our taste test and common sandwich ingredients to put together new flavor combinations. A popular choice was jam, turkey, and cheese! Some sandwiches were on classic bread, others on rolls or tortillas.
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