Walk Like an Egyptian!

Ancient Egypt

Today in class we learned about Ancient Egypt. There are a plethora of facts that we will learn including King Tut,  the Nile flood that comes once a year, the Sphinx, Cleopatra, and pyramids. We learned that Ancient Egypt existed for more than 3,000 years. With all this information we are making pocket books. The EDG are hoping we can learn even more.

EDG 

Cooking

Today is Wednesday; it must be cooking day! Every Wednesday we cook to learn about measurements and converting fractions. Today’s recipe was chosen from Michelle Obama’s contest for healthy recipes from children. The ingredients were whole wheat penne pasta, broccoli, chicken strips, reduced fat cheese, nonfat milk, and low sodium chicken broth. We had to use all of our skills: straining, boiling, baking, combining, mixing, pouring, and chopping. The result was mouth-watering and healthy too!

As a side dish, we decided to bake soda bread because in our gifted reading book, we found a recipe for Irish soda bread. Soda bread first appeared in the 19^th century. The Irish soda bread has a cross symbol on the top of the bread, but it is not a religious representation. The ingredients are very simple: sugar, baking soda, baking powder, butter, buttermilk, raisins, flour, and salt. This recipe turned out to be lip-smacking!

Our amazing chic' penne dish!

Delectable soda bread!!

You can find all of the healthy recipes from the kids' White House state dinner at this link:  
http://www.letsmove.gov/kids-state-dinner-winners

Healthy Cooking

Yum!

Spinach Chicken Salad:

• boneless, skinless chicken breasts

• dressing of oil, vinegar and kosher salt

• home-made croutons (slightly burnt)

• fresh spinach

• sliced strawberries

Creating a Volcano

Making a Volcano

Today we made a volcano using many methods and materials. In volcanoes there are many different functions. The magma will spurt and soon it will explode. There are many different materials that we had to gather before we even tried to start the volcano. The scientific method had all the steps we need: purpose, research, hypothesis, experiment, analysis, conclusion. Unfortunately we were unable to obtain real magma, so we made our own with soap, vinegar, baking soda, and food coloring. Now the volcano explodes.  

Let us paint.

Now I need some red.

Let us learn.

Ready for explosion.

Explosion!!

EDG

 (It is all about getting smart.)

Elements and Principles of Design

The Education Girls learned about the different lines and why they are formed. We also learned about the dot family, which is when circles are filled in. For our art projects, we started out by cutting a three-dimensional bubble wrap square and using this to print onto paper. Next we painted on a sheet of paper and took different materials like combs to carve designs on the paint. After that, we blew purple and green bubbles so we could print it on the sheet. After our hour art lesson, our hands were colored with pant. Samantha even had a design of paint on her arm. We had a very fun time working with Mrs. Henry. We can’t wait for our next art lesson.

Samantha and Lauren getting ready to paint!

Printing our bubble-wrap on the paper.

Samantha blowing bubbles.

Lauren blowing bubbles.

Samantha's elegant artwork!!

Samantha's beautiful artwork!!!

Artist hands!