Cranberry Thanksgiving-- a FIAR book

 We spent the week after Thanksgiving rowing this delightful book.  I had planned to do it earlier, but it wasn't available at the library.  Someone else must have loved it too!

Here's what we learned:

Social Studies--  Pilgrims, Traditions, New England States and customs, and of course, Thanksgiving.


Language Arts:  Repetition with in text of the story and similies






Some of the pages of our notebook....

 

Science-- We learned about starch....what it is, where it's found and what it's used for.  We had fun with this simple experiment using iodine.  I gathered together some different food items and had Delaney and Liam make a guess as to whether or not the food contained starch.  She said, "yes", all the items had starch. So, we then placed iodine on each food item.  If the iodine turned dark brown or black then starch was found, if not, then it was starch free.

We also learned about cranberries.  We watched some you-tube videos about the planting and harvesting process of these tart berries.  We read some books about them and then counted a bagful for some fun Math.

Math continued with fractions in baking. Delaney enjoyed making the famous cranberry bread from the book.  Our oven was still out, but we managed to bake them on the stove.  Most of it came out great...only a portion was burned.

There were so many more fun activities that I wanted to explore with this book but it's so hard to concentrate on Thanksgiving once it has past....we're now on to The Mitten  by Jan Brett.