Our 4-5 community took a field trip to Tortilleria Pachanga. We went to learn about how tortillas are made. The corn comes from Maine and when the crop is bad it comes from other states like Illinois. When the corn gets to her store, Lynne soaks the corn, then she grinds it, and then they form it into dough balls. There is a wooden thing called a press that flattens the dough into the round tortillas. When there is a bunch, the tortillas are put in a machine that will heat them and then they are bagged. We got to make the doug balls, press them and put them into a pan to cook it. The tortillas were AMAZING with a bit of cheese and salsa. If you have the opportunity, I would say find them in a store! The tortillerias are a 10/10. Come back to the blog for more awesomeness. Thank you for being amazing and supporting our 4-5 blog.
A few weeks ago, we started creating self portraits. We learned about Romero Britto and his style , which includes patterns, bold lines, bright colors and simple designs. We all added food into our Romero Britto-inspired self-portraits because we are telling people about ourselves and our favorite foods. We are doing a study called Local Foods and we are adding foods, sometimes in repetitive patterns, to our portraits. We hung the portraits in our classroom and now we can see the similarities and differences in our class. By showing our favorite foods others can relate and connect to us. We assembled the foods into bright patterns and divided the sections with thick black lines like Romero Britto. We also hid other things we like into our self portraits. We put as much detail as we could into the pieces to show our identities. After we finished them, we mounted them on black paper and hung them on the wall. We hope you like them. This is our first blog post of the year and we work...






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