Tales Of A 4-5 Something

On Wednesday October 25, We went to Pachanga Tortilleria. The former spanish teacher, Lynn, opened a tortilleria. It is in a business park near Get Air. At the beginning she showed us a slideshow about making tortillas and how it was done in the old days. Then we got gloves and we soaked the corn because it sticks better together. After, we ground some corn into flour using a grinder and felt it but we did not use that flour. Lynne used some other mash to make balls and we put it into a presser which made a small tortilla. Then we put it on the griddle and flipped it a few times and ate them with some cheese. They were delicious because the cheese melted and the tortilla was awesome. It was right off the griddle and fresh. We can get these tortillas at Rosemont. It is good because it is a local food and a local business. Abie and Jenny  

Food Mapping For a few weeks we have been studying local foods. We went to the Common Ground Country Fair, Zu Bakery, a wild edible food walk and lots more. But in Kai’s class we focused on food mapping, mapping the journey our food takes to get to your plate. We had three weeks to finish the project. The first week we talked and thought about what food or drink we would do. The second week we planned on a sheet of paper and week three we embarked on our poster. For example I did earl grey tea. I mapped my food’s journey on a poster and started with the leaves being planted, harvested and so on. But you were also allowed to use other tools like Duncan did. He decided to use puppet pals to show his food’s journey: a cherry. He drew some pictures like a cherry tree then combined them with some digital backgrounds and characters, boom! He made a little video. These are just a few of the things people did. One thing I liked about this class was that there was a lot of freedom and choi...

Worms We are studying worms in Nancy’s theme class. First we studied the different parts of a worm.   Did you know a worm has 5 hearts?    Did you know a worm has little tiny hairs called bristles that help them climb on things? Did you know that if you cut a worm in half both sides will die? It happens! Did you know that on the bottom half of a worm there is a hole called an anus that poops out castings that make soil. Did you know a worm has to eat sand to digest soil?All of this stuff is true.              Did you know that a sucks nutrition from the soil. By Lily and Lola

Did you know:          One  Barak can make about 100 to 200 loaves of bread in a week. That you can make an  all organic loaf of bread and a non organic loaf of bread. Wheat is a protein, and wheat is in bread, so bread has protein. Barak does not cook on fire, but waits and cooks on coals. Zu Bakery is  next to cows in a barn. When Barak mixes the dough he uses wood instead of glass or steel, because it improves the flavor. by Talia and Maddie

Making acorn flower is a tedious job. Its so easy but hard at the same time. It takes steps. This is what I did: 1.peel acorns 2.soak acorns (3 days) 3.dry acorns 4.grind acorns Then you have acorn flower. You can make pancakes bread and more with acorn flower. So enjoy. I got the idea from a lit book, My Side of the Mountain. Sam Gribley gave me the idea and it sounded good.So enjoy. Rafe

Today we all had a chance to cook. We were celebrating the end of our Local Food Study. Kai's group made pumpkin seeds and cooked the pumpkin. Nancy made pickles and Linda made fruit salsa. We made a cucumber salsa. The salsa was pretty chunky. We cut cucumbers, onions, mint, cilantro, jalapeño, peppers and added salt, lime and pepper. First we mixed up cucumber onions and oil mix then we added cilantro and mint mix. Furthermore we put in salt, pepper and lime mix and served them with chips made in Westbrook. Some food we ate today and some we will save for our Barn Dance dinner in December. Mercy and Kirby

By Ian and Duncan This year in K-1 there are only three habitats, marsh, forest and meadow. So 4-5 is mixed with K-1ers from different habitats. Every wednesday 4-5 meets with K-1 and we do an activity and then we have pachanga together. Pachanga is where we sing and sit with our buddies. 2-3 also has EC buddies. For example Ian’s buddy is Thomas and Duncan’s buddy is Dylan. Most of the time we read. But sometimes we draw. We went to the Maine Audubon in Falmouth and we played in the woods for half of the time and then we took a monarch butterfly story walk.

SEEDS (TIM'S CLASS) BY PORTER AND WILLIAM In Tim’s class we are learning about seeds. Not about how they grow, but what they were before they became a seed. First it started out as pollen in a flower. Then it got taken out of the flower by bees or other animals. From a bee’s view he would have been like “ooh nectar” when he first looked into a flower. Then the bee would start to do it’s happy dance and when it’s doing it’s happy dance, it gathers nectar AND pollen. Then when the bees are done collecting the nectar from the flower, they go back to the hive. BUT on the way there, some pollen falls out of their pollen basket. Then the pollen turns into a seed and the seed turns into a flower. There are 5 ways to spread pollen, animal carry, animal eat, wind, water, and explosions. Once the pollen is in a whole different area, it grows into a flower and bees go collect nectar from the flower and then the whole chain happens again.

At the Common Ground Fair they have a whole tent for lavender scented stuff. You can make Wabanaki wood carvings at the fair. They also have the most delicious maple candy in the world, and they have a really fun hill that you can slide down on cardboard. They have really fun masks to play with. They have really good looking food. They have a lot of animals at the fair. We each got five dollars to spend. By Lucas and Noah

Did you know : Bees don't purposefully collect pollen so when they do get pollen they put it in their pollen sacks. The worker bees are only females and the boys are almost useless. The queen bee is bigger than the worker bees and not fuzzy like the others. Only the queen can lay eggs. There is no king bee that is only a myth. By Cecily, Luke, Elliott

I wrote some poems because I got inspiration from places I went. -Leah Leaves When leaves drift down With the wind They remind me of balloons. They carpet the ground As I walk. They crunch and Crinkle under My feet like tin foil. Deep Dark Hole Shadows flitting here and there. Black nooks, Haunted corners, Empty hallways, Curtains drawn. Clouds of dust choke spindly legged spiders.

Red Crayon Oh red crayon You help me so much. You help me Color in Fire trucks And a really Embarrassed Duck and Strawberry pie And a Dead fly. Oh red crayon You help me much. Leah  

In writing workshop, Tim and Nancy gave us Dove chocolates to eat and write about. We did two drafts about the chocolate. Our first draft was "shallow digging". We ate the chocolate and then we wrote about it but we didn't notice much because we didn't practice. Then our second draft we used more detail and descriptive words. Tim and Nancy had us stop for each step so we couldn't eat it right away. We had to look, listen, watch, feel, and then eat. It was really fun eating and writing about the chocolate. Diego and Yacob