Yesterday we learned about cranberries. We saw a short video of a cranberry bog and watched as the cranberries were harvested. We all thought it was cool how the cranberries floated to the top of the water before they were harvested. We also were introduced to a new word "bog". We talked about how it's a wet, marshy area where cranberries like to grow. We were each given a cranberry to smell and touch. We used our senses to describe how it felt smooth, it looked mostly dark red, and it didn't have much smell before it was cooked. Jonas was the only one brave enough to eat the cranberry before it was cooked. He said it tasted sour!!
Then we put our cranberries and the rest of the bag into an electric frying pan. We added 1 C orange juice and 1C sugar and turned the pan to 350 degrees. We listened as the orange juice started to sizzle and we heard the skins start to pop. The juice started boiling and we kept stirring the cranberries until some of the juice had evaporated and the cranberries had turned into a thick sauce. The cooked cranberries smelled really good!! While we were cooking the cranberries Mrs. Gould read us the story Gregory the Terrible Eater about a Goat who was a picky eater. Then we talked about healthy foods and the different food groups.
While the sauce was cooling we had music with Mrs. Jenkins. We've been working on our Holiday Show which will be in December. More info on that will be coming. Then we went outside and enjoyed the beautiful, sunny day! Back inside we had fun spreading our homemade cranberry sauce on Ritz Crackers and eating them, yum!!!
Today we talked about cows and food made from milk. We heard a story about A Big Red Barn that had some cows inside. Then we went into the big room, sat in a circle and poured whipping cream into small jars. We screwed the lid tightly on top and shook the jars as hard as we could. We had two jars going around our circle and we all took turns shaking. We called this "friendship butter" because we all worked together to make it. After about 5 minutes it seemed like the cream wasn't making a sound when we were shaking it. We wondered what had happened so we opened the lid and found out that our cream had become very thick and turned into butter!! It was so creamy and declicious. We spread it on bread and had bread and butter, a banana, and apple juice for snack. We're saving the 2nd jar of butter to use on our mashed potatoes tomorrow!!
We went into the church nursery today during activity time to use the fruit and vegetable stand that they have in that room as well as their kitchen and train set and some of their riding toys. It was exciting to have a chance to play in a different room!!
We finally finished with our hand print bats based on the story Stellaluna. We added glitter to put some stars in the night sky. Mrs. Chyko told us that Stallaluna means Starmoon in Italian!
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