- having a servants heart
- coin sort
- gouache medium
- food groups
- .. and more!
FIAR: Little Nino's Pizzeria
"I [just] wanna make pizza!" Little Nino's father exclaims after he realizes that "bigger is not always better."
The book, "Little Nino's Pizzeria" is written using simple, short text but the colorful pictures and pizza theme made the book very enjoyable for us to read all week. One of my favorite things about using Five In a Row is that it is very adaptable to all different ages. The manual gives points of discussion, but from there so many other avenues of learning open up for you to dig deeper. For the youngins, all subjects could have been related to "pizza" and for the older students, you could have talked more about money, budgeting, owning a business, etc.
We touched on many manual lessons such as:
I took more pictures this week! Here is more of what we did....
For more fraction practice, I found this fun little game from a row of Little Nino's over at Adventures in Unsell Land.
The pictures in the book were very similar to the works of French artist, Henri Matisse so T made his own colorful collages.
I pulled out our Homonym cards we used for Truman's Aunt Farm and we played memory and did this little fill in the blank activity
Covering our map of Italy with Play dough-- we also did the flag; pardon the orange! We do know that the flag is green, white, and RED but we had no red play dough!
Did you know that there is no longer a food pyramid?! I didn't! Learning about food groups is now taught with this "My Plate" concept. Each meal should contain something from each of these five food groups. Lately I have been all about creating "lift the flap" type activities and here again, we did it to create "T's Plate." I had T color several pieces of food and then we cut them out and glued them under the right category.
I've already taken the book back to the library, so I am not sure what it's called, but it was full of poems about pizza! T did copy work involving a poem titled, "Everything."
A pizza with everything on it?
I want it, I want it, I want it.
But I wonder does everything mean the same thing
to everyone else as me?
As you can see, T's "everything" pizza would be covered with chocolate and candy! And afterwards, T created his own "everything" pizza using salt dough recipe, left over Halloween candy, and paint! For fun, we turned it into a Christmas ornament that he can hang up on his tree.
Since cooking pizza involves Yeast, we did a little experiment called "Is it Alive" found at PBS Kids Zoom.And yes, we found out that it IS alive when fed with warmth, sugar, and water!
Resources we took inspiration from:
Refined Metals Academy: Matisse Study
My Plate Colors: Food Groups
The Home Teacher: Food Group Fun
Education.com: Kindergarten Money Worksheets
Baltimore Institute of Art: Online Matisse Activity
I'd love for you to follow along so you never miss out on one of our fun activities we share at School Time Snippets!
Labels: FIAR Volume 3