Bakery/La panaderia
We continue learning about the bakery. We learned about yeast. The yeast love to be able to eat their favorite sugar in a warm, moist environment where they will multiply in numbers. As the yeast munch away on their sugar, a process called anaerobic fermentation begins to take place. The by-products of this process are alcohol and carbon dioxide. We mixed yeast, sugar and warm water in a bottle and put a balloon on top. The children observed how the balloon filled with carbon dioxide. We talked about how air made little holes in our bread and helped to grow during the baking process. At the sensory table, the children mixed flour and water to make bread dough also, they played with poms-poms, muffin pans, cupcake lines and tongs. At art center, we painted with a cookie cutter, rolling pin and cups of different sizes. At math table, we added Candyland. We encouraged the children to take turns and wait for their turn and follow the game rules and we used snap cubes t...