Chopsticks

Amy Krouse Rosenthal is one of our favourite authors. This week, we read a book of hers called Chopsticks.

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Most of the students in the class had never tried chopsticks or eaten sushi, so we gave it a try. First we rubbed them together to get rid of any splinters…

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..and then we gave using them a try. There were lots of different techniques.

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Finally, success!!

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Incidentally, almost everyone loved the sushi.
The students’ writing about the possibilities of chopsticks will begin appearing on their blogs later today.

Skating

The children are having a blast skating! I’ve been impressed by how hard they are trying and by how uncomplaining they are about sore feet and falling down. Just look at these smiles.

Making Butter

As part of our study about how people lived in the past, we made our own butter out of cream. We shook the cream…


…and shook it a lot more…

…until it finally became butter. Yum!