10/12/15
Question: What do we know/ want to know about bread? brainstorming session
- read aloud (From Wheat to Bread) add to chart with questions and what we’ve learned
Read aloud (The Little Red Hen Bakes Bread): Students use cut out pictures of breadmaking process and put them in correct sequence
Painted toast experiment: Review scientific method and record results.
Bread perimeter activity: Students predict how many cubes in length each side of the crust of bread is, then measure and record.
Survey: crust or no crust? Students chart the results on a bar graph.
10/14/15
- Read aloud “Bread, Bread, Bread”/discuss and record the types (shapes/sizes/names) of breads we see in the book. Identify and list the countries where they are located-- record what we know/want to know about these countries (look at maps of each country)
- Guess my shape (circle/oval) identify circles and ovals of types of breads from book, outside/around the room
- Kitchen science experiment (use our senses to record what happens to mixtures of baking soda, water and cornmeal with water and vinegar)
10/19/15
- Baking white bread
- Telling time exercises (alongside following recipe for timing--letting bread rise for an hour and a half, baking for 45 minutes, etc.)
- read aloud (Bread and Jam for Frances)
- Rhyming poetry for bread (adjectives)/list poetry
- Sensory journals about bread we baked
10/21/15
- Read aloud: “It’s Challah Time”, talk about food and traditions
- Make challah bread
- Guess my shape (rectangle/square) and explore
- Money math: observe coins and their values. Try to make a dollar using different combinations of coins.
10/26/15-
- Read aloud: Walter the Baker
- Pretzel Making
- Walter the Baker activities
1. Brainstorm characteristics with the whole class. For example: kind, mean, generous, selfish, fair, unfair, etc.
2. Read the book together. The first time, for the story content, and the second time, for character study.
3. Identify the traits of main character (Walter the Baker: hard working, generous, kind, fearful, etc.)
4. Children must prove what they say using evidence from the story.
5. Make a collage using one characteristic.
6. Illustrate the page using Eric Carle painted paper collage techniques.
10/28/15
- Bakery visit Cinderella Cakes
- Read aloud: “Tony’s Bread”
- Cupcake baking/Cookie baking for our own store
- Thank you cards for bakery visit
11/2/15
- Measurement activities based on measurements in recipes (fractions)
- Bake Challah loaf for our store
- Read aloud (Everybody Bakes Bread)
- Bake brownies for store
- Create menu/signs and invitations for store
- Money math/pricing of items/get classroom ready for bakery opening
11/4/15- Shopping day for families/friends.
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