Pizza Face - Italy and Shared book Focus

This week we have been learning about Italy and the Italian culture.  We have also had a shared book called 'Pizza Face'.  We have loved this book and learning about how Italians are famous for their Pizza's.  We wanted to try making pizza's for ourselves.  We had lots of fun together, and they were delicious too!

Special Visitor and Pasta Making - Italy

This week we have been learning about Italy and its culture.  Dimitri's family are from this part of the world.  Today Dimitri's mum visited and talked with us about Italy.  We even learned a few words in Italian.

After she left we started to make pasta.  We talked about all the steps and made storyboards of this as well.  Mrs. G even gave us a small piece of uncooked pasta to include on our storyboard to match the part where the pasta was added to the pot.

We LOVED our pasta and most of us went back for seconds.  We ate ALL of it and still wanted more.  We really were 'Master Pasta Makers from Italy'. - We sang this song a lot today as well.

Fractions - Cupcakes in a mug baking

As part of our fractions rotation children have been working with a buddy to reading a recipe with lots of fractions in, and discussing what that means and finding the right measuring cups/spoons to use for each ingredient.  Please feel free to remake these at home.  If you can come up with some new cupcake recipes that help you and your children discuss fractions at home, please feel free to share these in the comments below so that this post becomes a resource for everyone.

Here are some photos of the kids with their finished cupcakes, just before they go into the microwave for 2 minutes.

Here is the link to the recipe we used for this lesson.