Cooking Again! This Time Crepes with Ms. Will's Mother!

This past Friday Ms. Will was lucky enough to have her mother visiting from Calgary, Alberta.  Ms. Will's mother also works in school so she was pretty curious about learning about our school, and about the wonderful children Ms. Will has been teaching.  She also volunteered to cook with some of us as part of our Flat Classroom project.  What a treat for us!

Here's a video showing you how to make crepes. Again you will see that we had a lot of fun making the crepes, and even more fun eating them.  Cinnamon sugar makes everything taste better.  Maybe you'll try to make Ms. Will's mom's crepes in your classroom too?

Making Baclava with Cream with Lawrence's Mom

Yesterday Lawrence's mom came and taught us how to make Baclava with Cream. It is a special recipe from Iraq and it was very delicious. Again, we have made this special dish as part of our global flat classroom project. Here is the video of us cooking. As you can see it was a lot of fun, and pretty easy to do too. Maybe you will try to make it in your classroom or home.

 

Making Applesauce

For the past few weeks we have been cooking with some of our parents. It has been a really fantastic experience for everyone. We still have at least one more family coming to cook with us too. But today we did something a little different. Today we worked on the collaborative/sharing aspect of the project and we cooked something one of the other classes in our group made. Today we cooked Mrs. Kaput's classes applesauce. First we watched their video to get our directions.

Then we made our own applesauce. As you can see from the movie below we really enjoyed the applesauce.  We also learned that it's really great to learn from another classroom in another country.  Hopefully soon we will get to try other things that the classes have made and maybe they will be able to try to make something we've made too.  In the meantime enjoy our movie.

Flat Classroom Update - Cooking with Menura's Mom

Yesterday Menura's mom taught us how to make Sri Lanka Coconut Toffee as part of our Flat Classroom project.  As we were making it we were naturally curious. We made many connections and asked a lot of questions.  The final product (for those that like coconut) was very delicious.

Here's a little video of us cooking.  Maybe you'll try to make this in your homes too?

This Plus That

A couple weekends ago Ms. Lirenman was at workshop and she learned about a book called This Plus That by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.  

Ms. Will knew about this very special book and wanted to do a writing lesson with it.  As you can imagine we loved the book. We were so inspired we created our own little equations.  Here is a small sample of some of the writing we did.

Oreo + crumbled + jello + cool whip + gummy worms + pot = dirt and worms

by Paul

Three sides + three vertices = triangle

by Eric

Hockey + killer whale = Canucks

by Lawrence

Red + orange + yellow + green + blue + purple = rainbow

by Soeun

Gym + learning + fun = school

by Julie

Pencil + paper = writing

by Lawrence

Moon + stars + dark = night

by Soeun

Mom + dad + sister + brother = family

by Julie

Adrian + Paul + Jesse + Lawrence + Eric + Marcus + Menura + Alicia + Christine + Koden + Huda + Brooklyn + Julie + Jennica + Urim +Trista + Liliana +Soeun + Ms. Will + Ms. Lirenman + Ms. O  + working hard = best class ever.

by Paul

Working with 3D Shapes

Ms. Will has us working through 2D and 3D shape centres as we learn about those different shapes. For one of the stations we have been creating towers with 3D shapes then filming one another talking about our towers. Here is a small sample of our learning videos.







In another centre we have to sort 2D and/or 3D shapes by a sorting rule that we create. We have to write our rule, then demonstrate our sorting rule by cutting and gluing shapes into our notebooks.  We've come up with some very creative sorting rules.

In our third station we have been trying to cover a predetermined shape with 2D shapes.  This has been a lot of fun too. Here are a few pictures of us hard at work.

In the final centre we are looking for shapes around the room. We have searched for both 2D and 3D shapes.  We're sure you're not surprised but we have found MANY shapes around our classroom.

Flat Classroom Project Update - Cooking with Brooklyn's Mom

Today we had the pleasure of cooking Adobo chicken with Brooklyn's mom.  While Brooklyn's mom is not Filipino Brooklyn's dad is.  Her mom has learned how to cook Filipino dishes and today she taught us how to make Adobo chicken.  Boy was it ever delicious, and so easy to make that Ms. Lirenman is thinking that she may make it for her family too.

We are hoping that maybe our Flat Classroom friends will try to make this recipe too.  Stay tuned as we will be cooking some of their dishes as well.  In the meantime here is a video of us making Adobo chicken.  In this group of six children we have four different cultures being represented.  Quite a multi ethnic class we have and we LOVE IT!

Enjoy the movie recap of our cooking experience.