We are learning about the food groups this week...

	Monday, we made fruit salad.  We added mango, strawberries, kiwi, oranges, pears, apples, pineapple, and bananas.  We learned about halves and fourths as we were cutting up the fruit...by the way, did you know that oranges float if they have their peeling.  Once they are peeled, they sink!
Tuesday, we learned about the vegetable group.  While our soup was cooking, we created a vegetable soup mural.
	Here's the recipe!
Wednesday, we discussed the dairy group and  made butter.  Making butter was amazing.  All that we had to do was put whipping cream in a container and shake, and shake, and shake!
	Thursday, we baked bread and ate it with our homemade butter.  We each shaped our dough into a letter.  L was a popular letter for this project.
Friday, we made homemade ice cream.  Here's the recipe that we used if you want to try it at home, too. Homemade Ice Cream 4 cups whipping cream 2 cups sweetened condensed milk 4 cups cold water 2 Tablespoons vanilla   While our ice cream was freezing, we graphed our favorite flavor of ice cream.  Here are the results...Ask your favorite "K" Kid which had the most, least, and how many more, or how many less?
	Ice cream is worth celebrating.  The "K" Kids did a spontaneous cheer and toasted to the delicious ice cream!
We watched "The Magic School Bus, Ready, Set, Dough".  Ms. Frizzle and her gang learned about the kitchen chemistry that happens while making a cake.  After the show, we tried a little chemistry of our own.  We put baking soda in the balloon and vinegar in the bottle.  Before we dumped them together, we predicted what would happen.  A scientist's prediction is a hypothesis.  That's a big word...and we love big words!!
	It caused a chemical reaction and blew up the balloon!

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