Spaniards consume an average of 254 eggs a year, more than their French, German, and British brethren—and who could blame them? In Madrid, a city even the simplest huevo frito is an artform with golden, lacy edges and an impossibly fiery yolk.
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The Kitchn’s Baking School Day 1: Learn all about eggs. Join The Kitchn’s Baking School: Sign up and see all The Kitchn’s Baking School assignments Welcome to Baking School! In day-to-day cooking, eggs can be scrambled, poached, or boiled to create easy, straightforward dishes all on their own. But when it comes to baking and pastry, the importance of their role changes from breakfast food to a vital ingredient for giving structure, texture, and flavor.
If you want this delicate custard wrapped up by layers of thin, crunchy phyllo bathed in delicious, succulent syrup, you should make galaktoboureko, the famous Greek custard pie.
Hi guys! I'm here to share all about our bee inquiry that we just wrapped up in our classroom. It all started when we were learning about where bees go in the winter during our animals in winter inquiry. You can read the blog posts for that inquiry here (part 1) and here (part 2). When we were learning about what animals do in the winter, the question I had was "where do bees go in the winter?" We read a website and found out that the bees stay in their hives and they huddle around the queen bee. The worker bees work together and rotate being on the outside of the huddle and near the middle so they don't freeze but the queen bee always stays in the middle. After we learned this one of my students asked "Why doesn't the queen bee have to move? Why is she so important?" I thought that was a great question and since we were just finishing up our animals in winter inquiry, I thought it was a great time to move on to the next one! So first, we started with a K-W-L chart. First we recorded what we already knew about bees. Then the students shared what they were wondering about bees. I recorded the information on sticky notes and put them on the K-W-L chart. Then I took those questions, grouped them in categories and started researching and lesson planning! I reserved books at my local library and also asked my librarian at our school to pull some books about bees for us. I also hopped on Pinterest for some art and centre ideas. After I gathered my books, I read the books and started to plan my lessons. Here is what I came up with. You can download my bee inquiry plans to use a reference if you need ideas for planning your own inquiry! Click here or on the image below: For the first lesson, we read "Give Bees a Chance" by Bethany Barton (which I highly recommend, lots of cool facts and it's written with lots of humour, great for Kindergarten!). We talked about why bees sting us (self-defense) and then I invited any student who wanted to to come to the guided table and write a sentence about something new they learned about bees from the book. Here are just a few examples: "I learned that bees have 5 eyes." "I learned that bees have 2 stomachs." You can find these inquiry writing sheets in my "Inquiry Writing Templates for Kindergarten" pack. You can click here if you are interested in checking it out! The next day we read a page from "Buzz About Bees" by Kari-Lynn Winters to learn about what makes the queen bee important. Then we wrote what we learned on the easel. During centres, I had the girl who originally asked the question about queen bees come and record the information on paper and add a picture so that we could display our new learning on our inquiry board. The next day we read the book "Bee Dance" (which was suppose to be lesson #4 but I switched lesson #3 and #4 from my original plans because I wanted to introduce the centres that go with lesson #4 earlier) and learned why bees fly and how they communicate with other bees. Then I introduced these three centres: 1. NECTAR TRANSPORT CENTRE Students were asked to pretend that the eye droppers were bees, suck the nectar up from the flower (the "nectar" is just water with yellow food colouring!) and transport it to the hive. I have these hollow hexagon pattern blocks that were perfect for this activity! The kids absolutely LOVED this centre and it's great as a small world play/fine motor centre too! 2. POLLEN TRANSPORT CENTRE We also learned that bees carry pollen back to the hive so we pretended that the yellow tweezers were bees and we practiced flying the "pollen" (yellow pom poms) to the hive. 3. BEE SMALL WORLD PLAY We used regular wooden pattern blocks, some bee figurines, a grass mat and fake flowers for the students to create their own bee story or to retell "Bee Dance". The bee figurines are from Michaels and the grass mat and fake flowers are from Dollarama! There was lots of amazing stories being created here and I was happy to hear some of them using the vocabulary that we had talked (e.g. nectar, hive) about during our inquiry lessons! We also jumped ahead the next day to lesson #8 since I wanted to put this craft out asap during centre time! We that bees have three body parts, the head, the abdomen and the thorax. Then the students were invited to show the three body parts and look closely at the book/example to create a realistic bee! I provided tracers for the head, abdomen and thorax and some punched out circles for the small eyes (I used our hole puncher). Everything else they had to cut out themselves! It was a bit of a challenge for some of them but they did a great job! And they all came out so unique! Here is a picture of the set-up for the centre. I had the students use laminating film scraps for the wings. You can see the students' paper bees on the bulletin boards at the end of this post! I also put out this invitation to draw and label a bee as one of our centres! My kids love to draw so this was a perfect way to have them practice drawing realistic bees and identifying their body parts. I drew and made the directed drawing cards myself (I also made a more cutesy bee, not pictured here). I've had some requests to share these so I made them both available as a free download. You can click here or on the image below to grab them! Next we moved on to lesson #3 and #5. We read "The Bee Book" by Charlotte Milner and investigated why bees come out when it's summer and why bees make honey. We then recorded our new learning and added the writing to our bulletin board. The next day I set out this invitation to create a hive for the bees with paint! Students were asked to stamp the hexagons with yellow paint on the first day to make the hive and let it dry. The next day they were invited to add paint to the bee stamp and stamp on some bees! The bee stamps didn't show up well if there was too much paint on them, so I made sure to model to them how to use a paint brush and brush paint thinly on the bee stamp. I also had them practice stamping on GOOS paper first before stamping on their hives. I got the bee stamp from Michaels. Lastly, we read about how wasps and bees are different from "Buzz About Bees" (we used this book a lot during this inquiry!) and created a t-chart as a class. Then we had the students who had this wonder originally come and record some of the information we learned to display on our bulletin board. Here is a look at our bookshelf during our bee inquiry! Some books we read together and some were for independent reading during centre time. Finally we transferred our work from our inside bulletin board to our outside bulletin board to make space for new inquiry documentation and to share our work with the rest of the school! I printed some pictures I took while students were playing at centres and had some students come and write about what they were doing. We talk about the purpose behind this (so when other teachers and kids from other classes are looking at our bulletin board, they will know what we were doing) and the kids get really good at explaining what they were doing! The kids also made these egg carton bees with our CYW placement student (who is FANTASTIC. I have her for one more week and I will sure miss having her in our room!!). They LOVED making these and it was also a hands-on way to review the parts of a bee (e.g. it has 2 antennas, it has 3 eyes, it has 3 body parts etc.) The students used yellow acrylic paint to paint the head, abdomen and thorax on the first day, black paint to paint the eyes and stripes on the second day, and added the legs, antenna and wings on the third day. I had my CYW placement student hot glue the egg cartons, and cut small slits in the egg cartons to thread the antennas, wings and legs into. And that's it for this inquiry! Now we have some wonders about the sky (particularly about clouds and thunder) so I'll be doing some planning over spring break to bring those wonders to life! It also looks like it might lead into a space inquiry! Looking forward to sharing that with you in a month or so! - Yukari
Did you know that your grandmothercarried part of you inside her womb?But how? Well. A female fetus is bornwith all the eggs she will ever have in her lifetime.
Egg size conversion charts plus the 8 BEST egg substitutes. How many medium eggs are in one cup? What happens if you use the WRONG sized egg?
Easy osmosis experiment for kids that will make a fun science fair project! Learn all about cell membranes and how osmosis works!
Two of the most common questions I get are how to lengthen your luteal phase and how to lengthen your cycle in genera. Great questions indeed because I am personally familiar with the issue of having a too-short luteal phase and the suffering it causes me and the people around me (hee hee).
Daylight Savings was last weekend. But despite what you may have heard — it’s still soup season! And like I mentioned in my Hủ Tiếu post, soups are all about comfort foods for me. For D…
Delicious sweet Thai custard that has a few simple ingredients with sweet and savory flavors.
Should you exercise while in an IVF or fertility treatment cycle? What are the risks and what should you avoid? In this post we go over the Do’s and Don’t of exercise during IVF preperation and an IVF treatment cycle.
These 20 SUPER FUN home science experiements will teach your little ones all about science while keeping them busy and having a great time!
In this Virtual Field Trip, students visit various egg farms to learn about chickens, various poultry methods and how its produced.
The gut is a biological niche, home to a diverse array of microbes that influence nearly all aspects of human biology through their interactions with our bodies. Learn about the gut microbiome, how it relates to health and disease, and what diet and lifestyle choices best support a healthy, diverse gut microbiome.
Doesn't make it any less cool to find them, though.
Crafts and activities for kids
Easy at home science experiments using simple materials: salt and water experiment, egg in salt water, salt and ice. No-prep quick STEM activities kids love.
January’s challenge is all about food! Each day of this challenge you’ll be cooking it up in the kitchen ;). So grab your spatulas and get ready to discover some new skills.
{this post contains affiliate links, thank you for supporting this blog!} Since we were getting new chicks as a family, I wanted to incorporate this into our schooling…and we did! And it’s been great!! Here are tons of ideas & books & resources we have used! We started off with the free lapbook from Homeschool …
The Kitchn’s Baking School Day 5: All about dessert soufflés. Join The Kitchn’s Baking School: Sign up and see all The Kitchn’s Baking School assignments Soufflés tend to get a bad rap for being fussy and finicky — so why bother making them, you ask? Are they worth all the trouble? The answer is a resounding yes, and as you’ll learn in today’s lesson, they are not nearly as difficult as you might think.
German Store My kids started learning German (as their foreign language) in elementary school. We worked a lot on building their vocabulary and increasing their conversational skills as well as working on their reading comprehension, listening skills, and grammar. I couldn’t find worksheets that worked well for them so began making our own. Even now (my kids are currently in middle and high school), we still do a lot...
This Platypus Beetle Life Cycle is perfect for a mammal unit for your little ones. The Tot & PreK-K Packs are a wonderful compliment to the Emergent Readers I shared earlier this week. Pair them together to make a super fun
Cooking Channel serves up this Scrambled Eggs recipe from Michael Symon plus many other recipes at CookingChannelTV.com
The Kitchn’s Baking School Day 4: All about meringue. Join The Kitchn’s Baking School: Sign up and see all The Kitchn’s Baking School assignments In its most basic, stripped-down definition, meringue is egg whites whipped with sugar. Air is quickly whipped into the egg whites, which makes them billow up to as much as eight times in volume. Pretty neat trick, right? When sugar is added, it not only provides sweetness, but it also helps stabilize the egg whites.
Review of "All About Spelling" Level 1
Have you ever wondered why one recipe calls for an egg wash to be brushed on while another calls for milk? It's all about appearance! Let's go over the slight (and some not so slight)
Easy and Fun! I had this idea over a month ago when I saw the Easter eggs and baskets in Walmart. I was actually excited about Spring Break ending so that I could implement my new and awesome idea! (Of course, I did enjoy Spring Break with family, friends, and good food! No one can beat a Philadelphia Pretzel Factory Pretzel!!) Notice the GIANT bag of eggs and 3 separate bags of chocolate. I don't know why, but I always seem to overbuy for projects! I will have to come up with more ideas for these items. Overview Students come in each day, take an egg from the basket, read the slip of paper inside and respond in their Personal Journals as a "first thing in the morning" exercise. I am also toying with the idea of students sharing their prompt, question, etc. at Morning Meeting. Why I Love This Each slip is a question or a prompt that relates to things we have already learned, but are not necessarily doing day-to-day. For example, I taught about Alaska at the beginning of the school year. A question on one slip reads is: The Iditarod Race is held every March. What do you think the mushers do to prepare for it ahead of time? What do you think they might do the night before the big race? I have also included math problems, other science and social studies related questions, and writing prompts related to St. Patrick's Day. If you have to use workbooks or worksheets at your school, you can always retype them on slips or cut each question out to fit in the egg. Have students go around the room and "put the worksheet back together" and answering them as a group or independently! The Set Up 1. I worked in PowerPoint to create the slips of paper and wrote all types of questions that came to my mind when thinking back to what was learned so far this school year. I cut each out and placed inside of an egg. Math questions, writing prompts, read aloud responses, and short response science and social studies related questions. Folded nicely inside 2. One egg has a slip that allows the student to free write or read and, of course, there is a chocolate "golden" egg for later in the day. Be sure to remind students that the first egg they touch is theirs! No shaking and handling before choosing an egg. 3. I placed all of the eggs in the basket at the front of the room and wrote my morning message on the board. I hope they enjoy this! I needed a fun and engaging way to remind my students of important things that they learned. Rather than doing a worksheet or quiz of some sort, I thought this would be much more engaging and fun! More Engaging Activities for Students...
Bánh Mì is a Vietnamese sandwich that is popular all over the world. It is not just a sandwich, it's a cultural experience. The combination of flavors and textures is a true representation of the blending of French and Vietnamese cuisines. Learn everything you need to know about the Bánh Mi.
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I recently tried the New Zealand Cheesy Bacon and Egg Pie recipe, and it's perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The recipe card below has all the
