A Celebration: Eli, Food For Thought

Last week, Eli and the first grade crews had their "Food For Thought" celebration. They spent the first semester looking at food: why we eat what we eat, where we get our food from and why, my plate (the new food pyramid) and nutrition, parts of plants and how they grow, and why people from other countries and cultures eat what they eat. They had 4 field work (not to be confused with field trips. The kids go to work and learn--as you'll see) days: 1 to a local berry farm, 1 to a dairy farm, and 1 to a local restaurant and the farmers market and 1 to the German Village Bakery. At the berry farm, the farmer said that he really needed help marketing his berries to the public and asked the first graders to help him. They, of course, said that they would help him but they weren't sure how. So, they did a ton of research and decided that they should build a website to help him sell his goods and they included a lot of other local farmers as well.

The students made self-portraits like those from Arcimboldo

Eli shows us how they began the process of designing their website.

I included this picture because this was one of my favorite parts. They looked at a book called "The Hungry Planet" that shows images of what families around the globe eat in one week and how much they spend. The kids had to find the countries on the map, evaluate if the food listed is fresh or processed and if they are getting all of the food groups, and think about why people eat what they do beside just "it tastes yummy." and compare if what they eat is similar or different to we eat.  It was interesting what they discovered!

The French Teacher was there with a bunch of French words and phrases that they learned during the food expedition. It was all about different kids of food, where to shop, etc.

Here Sadie is exploring the web-site that the students built.

Without further ado, click here to go and view the website that they created. As you will see. There was a lot of time put into the creation of this website and the kids were so proud of all of their hard work. Make sure to watch the videos!!