Sugar or No Sugar?

Happy Wednesday! It has been an exciting day in Flowers Class!!

MORNING ACTIVITIES

We designed and decorated the other side of our hagoita that we started yesterday. We also began the second part of our “favorite food” craft. This time, we used our books to research how our favorite food grows or where it comes from. We then drew that for the right side of our craft. We enjoyed learning how tomatoes, pineapples, and carrots are grown.

CIRCLE TIME

Once again, we tried organizing our circle in a pattern based on our ages, 4, 5, 4, 5…

It went so much better this time! After our first attempt, we made it halfway around the circle before we hit a problem. We fixed it right away and continued. We had to fix two more spots using dolls as place holders, but we made it all the way around the circle while keeping the pattern!

SHOW AND TELL

Mi asked to share something with the class today!

Mi: Last time at Tokyo Tower, I make a candle and I decorated. I put a candle in the middle.

Gr: Why is there a house inside?

Mi: Because I decorated it.

Ma: Why is it black?

Mi: If I burn it, it becomes black!

Ve: Pink sand!

Mi: I put a spoon inside with sand.

Ke: Why did you make it?

Mi: Because I like it! My mommy said that we can make it!

STORY TIME

We continued reading the book about chocolate! We saw how the farmers open the pod and take the white beans out. Then they put the beans on banana leaves to dry.

Sh: There! They put it somewhere special where it’s not wet.

After the beans have dried out, they are placed in big sacks and transported to…

Th: Chocolate factory!

At the factory, they roast the beans. What does roast mean?

Th: You make it really hot and dry!

After roasting, the beans are pressed to crack the outer shell and reveal the cocoa nibs inside!

Cl: It looks like rocks!

Then they mix it together, and it starts to look like the chocolate that we eat!

Mi: The factories are making chocolate like soup!

Finally, they put it in molds to shape the chocolate and it’s ready to be shipped to stores around the world!

We learned that many chocolates, especially milk chocolate, contain a lot of sugar…

QUESTION OF THE DAY

Ma & Th: Is sugar healthy?

Gr: Can sugar be healthy?

Re: Is it ok to eat sugar?

Almost everyone said, “NO!”     Why?

Th: Because sugar is not healthy.

Mi: It makes our body not healthy.

Ei: Just a little bit is ok.

Gr: No! It’s not ok!

Ma: Sugar just food, not ok. But mix sugar is ok.

Ty: Sugar is healthy, but a lot is not healthy.

We learned a little about where sugar comes from. We saw two different kinds of sugar: cane sugar and beet sugar.

Th: It looks like bamboo, but it’s not.

Mi: Inside this (sugarcane) is sugar.

SUGAR OR NOT SUGAR?

Let’s play a game to find out which foods have sugar in them, and which ones don’t. We took turns choosing SUGAR or NOT SUGAR. Here are a few of our choices!

SUGAR

- Sports Drink

- Jam

- Sweet Potato

- Banana

- Soda

NO SUGAR

- Orange Juice

- Apple

- Muffin

- Chocolate

- Yogurt

- Carrot

Once we placed all the food in either sugar or no sugar, we closed our eyes while Cameron arranged them in the correct category.

When we opened our eyes, we all started yelling in disbelief!

Sh: Everything has sugar!!!

Without saying anything else, we immediately began rearranging the foods which we deemed as healthy back to the NO SUGAR side. We thought that this couldn’t be true! There’s no way! Surely Cameron was just joking! We thought that he was teasing us. So, he asked us to close our eyes again and he promised that he would arrange them in the correct category with no jokes.

We opened our eyes, and once again, all the food was on the SUGAR side!!

Th: But milk doesn’t have sugar!

Ty: Apple is healthy!

“Sugar is not healthy!” That’s been our consensus. So how is there sugar in foods that we believe are healthy?

We’ll find out more soon!

Have a nice evening! See you again tomorrow!

Love,

Flowers XOXO