Six more boxes full of sweet fun today!
Box #1
Elijah and I did another graph. We polled friends & family members (via Facebook) to find out their favorite kind of candy.
I printed off all the data for Elijah to compile and chart.
After Elijah finished with his bar graph, I took him to Create A Graph where we made a line graph and a pie graph.
Box #2
Psalm 34:8 copywork
Box #3
Story Problems (with a treat tucked in the box!) You might need to create your own problems to fit your students' current math level.
Box #4
We read "Circle of Sun" from the Here's a Little Poem poetry anthology. We discussed list poems, alliteration, repetition (the -ing words), and rhyme. I had Elijah list all the words he could think of that related to candy while I recorded them for him.
After we had a good list, we went to the computer to compose a list poem. I asked him how he wanted to start the poem. I asked him to find words that were similar (referring back to the alliteration, repetition, and rhyme). I asked him what phrases he thought sounded good together. I kept asking questions to make him think about how he wanted to construct the poem. I helped him here and there, but this is mostly his own work.
I helped him group the words together, and here is his finished poem:
Candy
Delicious
Mouth watering
Tooth rotting
Lip-smacking
Melting
Treats
Brown
Dessert
Crunchy
Cherry
Carmel
Candy
Lick-able lemon lollipops
Bubble-blowing gum
The bigger the better
More
MORE
Oh no!
Box #5
Science Experiment #3- Chromatography (color separation)
We only used the brown M&M's for this.
It worked! The brown separated into a rainbow of colors!
Box #6
Science Experiment #4- Dissolving Hot/Cold
We used boiling water for the hot water. The Milkduds dissolved very quickly! This was a simple (but effective) experiment.
Here are the printables we used today.
Do you need more ideas for Candy School?
~play Candyland
~set up Candy Shop; we will be doing this in the days to come…I am stashing candy away just for this purpose
~Write a story — "Chocolate for Lunch"
~make M&M pancakes for breakfast or lunch
~use M&M's or Skittles to make an artistic mosaic
~estimate how much candy you have then count it. Figure out how close you were to the actual amount.
~complete more Candy Experiments
~Hang out at Wonka Land
~compare & contrast the amount of sugar in different kinds of candy; graph or chart the information
~review the Food Pyramid and discuss why we should limit sweet treats
~use different candy shapes to make caramel apples with funny faces
~make candy jewelry – for your preschooler, start a pattern for her to finish
If you decide to do candy school at your house, I'd love to hear about it. Please leave a comment or a link!
Happy Candy-Schooling!
P.S.
LOVE your ideas!! So glad I found the site
I am doing a weekly blog carnival called Playing with Our Food. I mentioned your post. š
This was so great, I was planning to do the same thing, and was so happy to see all your printables! Thanks so much for sharing. If you’d like to see what we did here’s the link:
http://redflyerschool.blogspot.com/2009/11/candy-school.html
Candy school is a great idea. I love the worksheets with the spaces for observations. When my family started candy experiments, we didn’t always know what to look for, so my kids learned to pay attention. That’s how we discovered that the m’s float. Good luck with your candy curriculum!
Look into the history of candy too! A quick internet search of “history of ____” will give you LOTS of resources. Many of our modern day candies are relatives of “old fashioned” candies.
Also, the chemistry of how different “hard” and semi-hard candies are created is FASCINATING. The temp and length of exposure to that temp is what creates different textures. Make a basic “hard candy” and play with it at different temps to learn the differences!