Pumpkins Are Delicious!
10/27/2017
This was a very exciting week for our EK Explorers; we had our first family breakfast and we were baking. After learning all about the pumpkin life cycle last week we were ready to take the last stage of that cycle, a big orange pumpkin, and turn it into something yummy to eat. On Monday we used the puree from the pumpkin that we had roasted on Friday to make pumpkin pie. Baking with pumpkin that we had roasted ourselves was a great way to extend our study of pumpkin life cycles. Taking the final stage of a pumpkins life cycle and using it to make food gave value to pumpkins and meaning to the life cycle. Pumpkin pie was a new experience for some of our kids, but everyone tried it agreed it was delicious. On Tuesday we started getting ready for our family breakfast. The students decided they wanted to make pumpkin muffins for the breakfast. In baking muffins, we practiced our measuring and counting skills, and turn taking. The students had discussed making food with pumpkins early on in our study and they were excited to be able to actually bake. We ended our week with pumpkin ice cream. The students loved our family breakfast. Our explorers were ready to share all the learning they have been doing this month and eager to show off their classroom. It is wonderful that we get to have these events at PNA, and that you as parents get to see what your child is learning and that the students get to share with you why they enjoy school. It really gives them ownership and pride in their education. Thank you to everyone who came; I know it takes a bit of schedule rearranging to make it work.
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