Brush, Brush, Brush....

 

Open Wide!!!! We have been fascinated with our teeth and learning all about the care of these pearly beauties! We can tell you all about dental instruments, cavities, plack, bacteria, brushing, flossing, foods that are good or bad for your teeth, baby teeth and permanent teeth! Completing dental surveys in the morning has been quite informational. Inquiring minds want to know...Did you brush your teeth this morning?

Have you ever had a tooth x-ray? (Harry's idea)  Have you ever lost a tooth? Do you have a loose tooth? We chart our ever changing results each morning.



 

 

 

 

Mr. Mouth helped us know how to brush our teeth. Look at these chompers!

 

We practiced brushing our own teeth.

 

 

 

Jordan's mom, a dental hygenist, visited our class to talk about taking care of our teeth.

She brought each of us an electric tooth brush and toothpaste.

Thank you, Jordan, for sharing your mom!!

 

 

 

 

What sweet smiles we have!!

 

 

 

 

Fishy Fun!

Our last Sea Life activities allowed us to use our creative juices, using paints, sand, tissue paper, goldfish crackers, and salt dough, which we made in class! We completed a Venn Diagram comparing seahorses with farm horses. Listing differences was the easy part. We came up with a few things that were the same...not quite so easy! Our seahorses found homes in three dimensional fish bowls, complete with seaweed, and "goldfish".  We learned all about starfish, and anxiously waited for our creations to dry so that we could paint them. Adding a bit of glitter helped them sparkle in our hallway display.

 

We mixed the salt dough for our starfish...

 



Next, we kneaded the dough until it was soft.

 

Rolling the dough was not as easy as it looked....

Almost completed......

Our finished product, ready to dry and paint!

 

 

Our three dimensional fish bowls were a great home for the seahorses!

 

 

 

If you didn't get a chance to see our fabulous hall display, here it is!

 

 

 

 

We've been cooking in 6C!

 

 

Zyon's Aunt Jessica and mom, Jasmine, taught us how to make caramelized bananas, a West African dessert.

We began by slicing the bananas and adding them to melted butter.

 

 

 

 

 

The bananas were sauteed in the butter with brown sugar until syrupy (is that a word?) and browned.

 

 

We ate this delicious dish with vanilla ice cream! Yum!

Harry and Ella had at least 3 servings of bananas!

 

 

 

 

Thank you, Zyon, for sharing your family and delicious dessert!

 

 

This past week we also made Vanilla Wafer "oysters" with marshmallow "pearls" after reading "Pearly, the Oyster."

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coming soon....starfish!!!

 

 

 

 

 



International Week!

This week was packed full of special presentations, displays, music, food, and activities for Calvert as we celebrated International Week! Haiti, The Netherlands, Brazil, South Korea, and Chile were highlighted. Each of us tried new foods every day, and found that we liked many of the dishes made by Chef James and his staff in the kitchen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



African Houses!!

 

 

What fun we had, making African houses with our fabulous family helpers!

I was so proud of everyone for their best efforts to complete this project.

Thanks so much to our helpers...we couldn't have done it without you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By the way, our box of supplies to the Sarah Jr. School in Nairobi, Kenya, was mailed this past Saturday. It should arrive in 8-10 days. We are very anxious for Miss Judy's response when she receives the box. Thank you to each and every one of you for your generous donations!