Podcast So Far

Welcome to our classroom (welcome them)
we are learning about.....
Concepts out of the book...lesson plans done/will be doing/integrate book
Update parents/overview of 1project based learning- concept
---project based learning is ....
we as teachers did mind maping- 2 concept map using inspiration we have 3 phases of our concept map constanly reviewing
3-culture -google maps/epals
4-final project
5-journaling-reflecion
6-windows movie maker-creating stories
what lessons we have done before. 


SCRPIT:

Welcome parents, thank you for joining us for our team kitchen podcast.   The teachers of Team Kitchen are Emily, Sara, and Val.  As you know in our classrooms we have been doing project based learning.  For those of you who do not remember project based learning is a dynamic approach to teaching in which students explore real world problems and challenges.  Our class project that we have been working on is creating a classroom restaurant. The first step in our project was for us to brainstorm ideas.  We did this by creating several concept maps, improving them each time.    Eventually we narrowed our focus and decided what we would do various lessons on. 

Throughout this whole project we have been connecting with our sister school in Italy.  The students in Rome as well as our students have been working together to learn about each other's culture, specifically relating to food. 

One of the activities we have done so far was to have the children work with maps to find the distance between our school and our sister school.  Once the children completed this task they were assigned a country to research.  When doing the research the children found recipes and learned about their countries traditions. 

Currently in our classroom we are working with our sister school on researching about Italian recipes as they are working with us on what is typical American food.  The students have been using Skype to communicate with one another.  They will be making an Italian dish at home and bringing it in to present to our classroom.  Parents put your apron's on!

The students also learned about kitchen safety.  The children brainstormed about rules that they thought were important when cooking.  We then watched movies on safety and first aid.  After the movie the children made a class list on what they believed were the top 10 rules that need to be followed in the kitchen.  The list is provided on the class website for your reference. 

Next week we will be doing a lesson on table manners.  Parents we all know that they need it, hopefully their will be no more flinging food at the table! They will be researching basic table manners.  After compiling all of their research they will be putting on a skit to demonstrate what they learned. 

As you know our field trip to the local restaurant will be next Thursday.  Please send in permission slips by this Friday, if you need another copy they are posted on the class website.  The goal of this field trip is for the students to learn all of the different roles that people play when working in a restaurant.  Students will be taking notes of their observations.  Once back in the classroom we will collect data on what roles students found most interesting.  After the students will explore a different role in the restaurant and write a short story on what it is like to be that person. 

As you know all of this restaurant research is working toward having a classroom restaurant presentation.  Which will be held Friday April 8th at 11:30.  Parents you are more than welcome to join us and we would love to have volunteers.  Please email one of us with your availability. 
Thank you and have a great day!