The ever present smell of
chocolate in the air from our nearby Hershey’s plant helped
to set the mood for our back to school chocolate unit. It
permeated it’s way into our reading, writing, computer and
math classes.
My local county librarian was helpful in locating nine
"chocolate" books for us from all over our province! The
read-alouds led into comparisons on Venn diagrams and
writing activities. We enjoyed the following books:
I Like
Chocolate - Robin Pickering
Beans to Chocolate - Inez Snyder
Wellington’s Chocolatey Day - Mick Inkpen
Max’s Chocolate Chicken -
Rosemary Wells
Seven Eggs - Meredith Hooper
The Chocolate Cow -
Lilian Obligado
Chocolatina - Erik Kraft
Cam Jansen and The Chocolate Fudge Mystery -
David Adler
Curious George Goes to a Chocolate Factory -
H.A. Rey
We are fortunate that Hershey’s
is located near our school. After reading and discussing
Curious George Goes to a Chocolate Factory we decided to
go to our local chocolate factory. We walked the 1.3 km to
the plant. We made a Hershey kiss caterpillar craft, went
for our own tour and bought chocolate.
Quite a few of the student's parents and
grandparents work at the plant and waved to us as we toured
the plant. Luckily none of the students were as curious
as George. Once back at school we decided to create a slide
show on KidPix3 of our trip and tour of the chocolate
factory.
Keilan
While at Hershey’s, Mrs. Ireland
bought bulk Reeses Pieces, Hershey’s Kisses and Jolly
Rancher candies. We used the candy during our sorting and
patterning math unit to create patterns and then wrote about
them. We made a class Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. Of
course when we were all done we got to EAT OUR MATH!!!!
The pattern core is a gold
Kiss, blue Reeces, brown Reeces, brown Reeces,
green Reeces,
and a brown Reeces.
It is an ABCCDC or a
1,2,3,3,4,3 pattern.
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Our Ontario Curriculum
connections are:
Data Management:
q
demonstrate the
ability to organize objects into categories, by sorting and
classifying objects simultaneously using two attributes
Patterning and Algebra
q
create a
repeating pattern by combining two attributes
q
demonstrate,
through investigation, and understanding that a pattern
results from repeating an operation
q
represent a
pattern in a variety of ways
Writing
q
use words and
pictures to create a message
Oral and
Visual Communication
q
create simple media works |
