Dec 14

What a fantastic day we had!!  I can honestly say that this day will go down as one of the best ever in my teaching career so far.  The excitement, smiles, and energy that we all had this morning made this such a perfect morning.

We started this morning by getting our room set up and ready for baking.  We tied our baking into our science unit on Liquids and as we mixed our recipe, we recorded some of the things we observed.  For example, what happens when we mixed two liquids?  A liquid and a solid? Two solids?

We each had a turn to add an ingredient, mix the ingredients, roll it, or cut out a cookie.  As we went, we smelled the different ingredients such as cinnamon, cloves, vanilla and even our dough.

Smelling spices

Smelling spices

 

 

Mixing Liquids

Mixing Solids 

 

Once we had our dough mixed, rolled, and cut, it was time to bake them. This was special for the class as we had the chance to go into the staff room.  Here we spent some time recording our observations, creating our own gingerbread kid, and reflecting about what we learned about solids and liquids.  We also did some writing using our sense of smell and sight that we will use tomorrow for some poetry.  

 

 

 

Finally they were ready!!! We offered some to our office staff and they all agreed they were delicious... but were they? When would the students get a chance to try them?  The delicious smells were making all of our tummies growl!

 Finally when we got back to class, we had a chance to try them.  They were flavourful, healthy, and decilious!!We started by only taking 1 bite and after our bite, we looked at what part of the gingerbread man we bit.  We used this to make a tally. This information will be used to make our own graphs. Stay tuned...

Coming Up:

• Red and Green Day tomorrow
• Early Dismissal Friday
• Report Cards home Friday
• Our class performs a dance at Caroling on Friday. Starts at 8:30
• Pyjama Day Friday
• Winter Holidays start Friday at 11:30am!!