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| Ms. Sara Showing Us Golden Wheat |
When Roan brought in his
treasure hunting gear last Friday for sharing and I realized how crazy the kids were about treasure hunting, our curriculum night study transformed into a Great American Treasure Hunt looking for the American Breadbasket. Here are the hints we have collected so far…
- Hint #1 - Whole grains are healthy foods.
- Hint #2 - We live in the United States of America.
- Hint #3 - Some of the landforms in (or bordering) the United States are mountains, canyons, plains, lakes, oceans, deserts and forests
- Hint #4 - The seeds from wheat can be ground into flour which we use to make all kinds of breads and pastas.
Ms. Sara and Ms. Dana from the Brown County Bureau helped us with Hint #4 on Tuesday. They shared Soil Sammy with his shock of hair made of newly sprouted wheat and golden stalks of mature wheat. They read the book From Wheat to Pasta. We got to grind wheat kernels into flour and make necklaces out of different types of pasta. We leaned a lot about wheat which took us one step closer to discovering the American Breadbasket.
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| Drew Using His Muscles to Grind the Wheat |
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| Making Pasta Necklaces |
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| Kayla Grinding the Kernels of Wheat into Flour |
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| Work those muscles, Lilie! |
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| Making Pasta Necklaces (There's Soil Sammy in the lower left hand corner!) |
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