Today we learned all about food preservation. In other words Rich and the kids helped me can tomatoes in water, and pickled mexican flavored cherry tomatoes. We discussed why preserving food is important, and what it might have been like when there were no grocery stores to supply us with food. I am prepping them a little for our trip to Old Sturbridge Village. We talked about all the things that we take for granted that were not available to people in that time. We also talked about what things might be the same. CJ thought that people probably still planted gardens and picked their own vegetables. Eliza thought they still probably read books. I thought they were really interested and they seemed to be engaged enough to absorb some good info.
We made apple crisp with the apples we picked, and the kids helped with that too. We read the recipe, got all our ingredients out, and discussed why it might be important to measure and follow the recipe. They love baking and cooking with me and Rich. They told me what a recipe was, and then they pretended to cook in their play kitchen, making up and following recipes of their own. CJ's soup recipe is 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp pepper, 1 tsp garlic, 1 tsp cheese, 1 tsp tomato, water and a rock. This is his version of stone soup! Eliza made (pretend) mango ice cream with 1 mango, 1 cup of milk, and 1 tsp vanilla. I love it!
Tomorrow is Zoo day, and I am excited. Today we made hypotheses on what animals we might see, and tomorrow we will test them. We speculated on what we might learn, and I am excited for it. Friday will be more work with numbers, review our letters and sounds, and to start our zoo books!
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