Bread Baking with Shelburne Farms!

We had a great time on Thursday baking bread with teachers from Shelburne Farms!  We began the morning by making the dough.  The children measured, mixed, and shaped the dough! Then the children participated in three stations: wheat grinding, butter making, and felt soap making.  The best part of the day was the taste testing!  We had fantastic time!  What was your child's favorite part of the process?

We also finished our Ecosystems unit with an engineering task!  The children made a plan with their groups about how to clean up a river oil spill. They had to design a 4-step cleaning process and choose tools that they thought would work best to contain and eliminate oil.  After testing their plans, they pressed a paper to the surface of their "river" to see how much oil was on the paper.  How did your child do?  Was he or she able to clean up the oil and save the river ecosystem?

 Enjoy the long weekend!