On Monday the kiddos got to add a couple of small coloured candies onto
a gingerbread man. This little 'eating' activity served two purposes.
The students will be exploring their five senses in a future science unit,
so we did any activity with adding a word to how the cookie tasted, smelt, felt,
looked and sounded.
The second part was an activity that involved recording how the
cookie was eaten. (By the way, did you know that they proper
spelling is actually cooky?)
For the first bite, the students coloured the part of the gingerbread
man on the recording sheet red. The second bite was recorded as
orange, the third bite was green and the fourth was blue.
Once the cooky was eaten, the whole class shared which part
they chomped on first. The class completed a graph with this information.
In the end nine students ate a leg first, seven ate an arm first and
two bit into the head first!
On Monday afternoon we received a special delivery package from
SANTA!
Seems he had received the letter I had sent him earlier in the month
requesting a little elf to come and be with us for the last two weeks
before Christmas holidays.
Here she is!
This is where she was when we walked in this morning.
The gingerbread learning doesn't stop!
We wondered what would have happened if the gingerbread man
had just tried to swim across the river instead of getting onto
the fox's back. The students wrote out their hypothesis, which is what
scientists do. The cookie was placed in a glass of water and once
we knew it had been in for a while, we made our observations. That's
also what scientists do. We noticed that the cooky got bigger,
soggy, changed colour, and when you tried to take it out of the water,
it fell apart and was really mushy.
Wait until you see what we do next! Tune in tomorrow!
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