The Clothes Study Investigating the Topic AT A GLANCE Exploring the Topic What do we know about bread? What do we want to find out? Vocabulary—English: loaf, bake, bakery, baker, knead, investigate; words related to different types of bread (e.g., rolls, buns, tortillas, Spanish: hogaza, panadería, hornear, panadero, amasar, investigar; palabras relacionadas con distintos tipos de pan (e.g., panecillos, bollos, breadsticks, baguettes); words to describe bread (e.g., crust, crunchy, soft, sweet, round, square) tortillas, palitos de pan, baguettes); palabras con las cuales se describe el pan (e.g., corteza, crujiente, blando, dulce, redondo, cuadrado) Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Make Time for… Interest Areas Art: play dough; photos of Dramatic Play: cookbooks Library: books that feature bakeries Art: photos of bread; bread Dramatic Play: environmental print Outdoor Experiences bread about bread cookbooks about bread; bread packages Physical Fun Question of the Day Do you like bread? Did you eat bread today? How many [slices of bread or Do you have a favorite kind of What do you want to find out about tortillas] are in this [loaf or stack]? bread? bread? • Review Intentional Teaching Card P19, “Bounce & Catch.” Follow the (Show a loaf of bread or a stack of guidance on the card. tortillas.) Large Group Movement: Leaping Sounds Movement: Writing in the Air Movement: Walk the Line Song: “Mr. Forgetful” Song: “Let’s Make Letters” Family Partnerships Discussion and Shared Discussion and Shared Discussion and Shared Writing: Discussion and Shared Writing: Discussion and Shared Writing: What • Introduce the study to families by Writing: What Do We Know Writing: Kinds of Bread Bakeries What Do We Know About Do We Want to Find Out About Bread? sending a letter of explanation. Ask About Bread? Bread? them to bring bread-making supplies Materials: Mighty Minutes Materials: Mighty Minutes 32, Materials: Mighty Minutes 84, “Let’s (ingredients, tools, and aprons), books Materials: Mighty Minutes 17, 09, “Writing in the Air”; “Walk the Line”; book from Materials: Mighty Minutes 55, Make Letters” about bread, cookbooks, toys related “Leaping Sounds”; collection dry-erase boards or clipboards the “Children’s Books” list that “Mr. Forgetful”; samples of to bread (baskets, rolling pins, and of photos of bread with paper; markers features bakeries real bread bread packages), and interesting breads or flour to explore. Read-Aloud Selection from the “Children’s Selection from the “Children’s Selection from the “Children’s Doña Flor Reread the book from Day 3 that Books” list that features Books” list that features Books” list that features bakeries Book Discussion Card 35 (first features bakeries. Use Intentional Wow! Experiences characters making bread different kinds of bread read-aloud) Teaching Card LL06, “Dramatic Story Retelling.” • Research sites that children can visit next week to watch people making Small Group Option 1: Story Problems Option 1: Comparing Bread Option 1: Play Dough Option 1: Our Names, Our Option 1: Playing With Environmental bread. Intentional Teaching Card Textures Intentional Teaching Card M15, Things Print M22, “Story Problems”; Intentional Teaching “Play Dough”; ingredients; recipe Intentional Teaching Card Intentional Teaching Card LL23, collection of manipulatives Card M05, “Sorting & chart; materials to make play LL41, “Our Names, Our “Playing With Environmental Print”; Many bakeries and grocery stores Classifying”; objects to dough; photos of different kinds Things”; name cards and photos variety of environmental print, sell day-old bread at discounted Option 2: Dinnertime define boundaries for sorting; that identify each child’s cubby; including items related to bread of bread prices. Throughout the study, ask Intentional Teaching Card collection of photos of bread photos that appear in other Option 2: Storyboard M01, “Dinnertime”; paper to sort Option 2: Apple Bread places in the classroom for families, kitchen staff, or local or plastic dishes; napkins; Intentional Teaching Card M29, Intentional Teaching Card LL46, bakeries to donate samples of utensils; cups; placemats; toy Option 2: Comparing Bread “Apple Bread”; recipe chart; Option 2: Daily Sign-In “Storyboard”; collection of photos or bread that have different shapes or Textures Intentional Teaching Card pictures cut from magazines; tape; index bread ingredients; mixing bowls; textures. Intentional Teaching measuring cups and spoons; knife; LL42, “Daily Sign-In”; daily cards; construction paper; writing tools Card M02, “Counting & cutting board; loaf pan sign-in sheet; name cards; variety Comparing”; variety of bread of writing tools; date stamp for children to explore and taste; card stock Mighty Minutes™ Mighty Minutes 01, Mighty Minutes 08, “Clap Mighty Minutes 37, “Little Ball”; Mighty Minutes 82, “Let’s Mighty Minutes 75, “Busy Bees” “The People in Your the Missing Word” ball Clean Up”; chart paper Neighborhood” The Clothes Study Investigating the Topic AT A GLANCE Investigation 1 How is bread made? Vocabulary—English: grain, flour, grind, mill, rise, ingredients, baking powder, yeast, oil, technique, occupation, rolling pin, Spanish: grano, harina, moler, crecer, ingredientes, polvo para hornear, levadura, aceite, técnica, ocupación, rodillo, molde para hornear el pan; bread pan; different kinds of flour (e.g., wheat, rye, potato); word related to the baking tool (e.g., spatula, sifter, whisk) tipos de harina (e.g., trigo, centeno, papa); palabras relacionadas con el instrumento de panadería (e.g., espátula, cedazo, batidor) Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Make Time for… Interest Areas Discovery: wheat or Discovery: wheat or cornmeal Art: interesting baking tool; play Computer: photos or videos of Dramatic Play: materials related to Outdoor Experiences cornmeal grains; mortar and grains; mortar and pestle or hand- dough; photos of different kinds industrial bakeries baking (e.g., pans, toy breads, rolling pestle or hand-crank grinder crank grinder; different kinds of of bread pins, aprons) • Take the mortar and pestle or hand- flour; magnifying glasses crank grinder outdoors to continue exploring grinding grains into flour. Question of the Day Where does bread come Do you see any letters in your What can we do with this? What do you want to see on Which kind of bread do you want to make? Physical Fun from? name on this recipe? (Display a (Show an interesting baking our site visit? (Show two different bread recipes from bread recipe.) tool, e.g., pastry brush, pastry Come Cook With Me, such as “Biscuits” • Review Intentional Teaching Card cutter, or hand mixer.) and “Apple Oat Muffins.”) P08, “Cutting With Scissors.” Follow the guidance on the card and Large Group Game: Simon Says Game: My Name, Too! Movement: The Imaginary Ball Movement: Spatial Patterns Game: 1, 2, 3, What Do I See? experiment with using scissors to cut play dough. Discussion and Shared Discussion and Shared Writing: Discussion and Shared Writing: Discussion and Shared Writing: Discussion and Shared Writing: Making Writing: How Is Flour Made? What Goes Into Bread? Baking Tools Site Visit to See How Bread Is a Bakery Family Partnerships Made Materials: Mighty Minutes Materials: Mighty Minutes 35, Materials: Mighty Minutes 41, Materials: Mighty Minutes 50, “1, 2, 3, 13, “Simon Says”; hand- “My Name, Too!”; variety of “The Imaginary Ball”; lively Materials: Mighty Minutes 38, What Do I See?”; items related to the • Invite families to visit next week and crank grinder or mortar and bread recipes music; interesting baking tools “Spatial Patterns”; Intentional study; basket; scarf or towel; rolling pins; make a bread recipe that they like to pestle; whole grains to grind; and ingredients; play dough Teaching Card SE01, “Site bread pans make and eat at home. book that shows how grains Visit”; clipboards and paper; • Invite family members to accompany are ground into flour pencils or crayons the class on the site visit to a bakery (Day 4). Read-Aloud Doña Flor Selection from the “Children’s Doña Flor Selection from the “Children’s Reread the book from Day 2 that Book Discussion Card 35 Books” list that discusses cooking Book Discussion Card 35 (third Books” list that explores ways features cooking and baking. Wow! Experiences (second read-aloud) and baking read-aloud) to use your imagination • Day 4: Site visit to a local grocery store Small Group Option 1: Musical Water Option 1: Letters, Letters, Letters Option 1: Cornbread Option 1: Tongue Twisters Option 1: Making a Recipe or bakery Intentional Teaching Card Intentional Teaching Card Intentional Teaching Card Intentional Teaching Card Intentional Teaching Card M10, M44, “Musical Water”; five LL07, “Letters, Letters, Letters”; M65, “Cornbread”; recipe LL16, “Tongue Twisters”; chart “Biscuits,” or M33, “Apple Oat Muffins”; tall drinking glasses, glass alphabet rubber stamps; colored chart; ingredients; measuring paper; markers recipe chart; ingredients; baking supplies As children prepare different kinds jars, or glass bottles; water; inkpads and construction paper cups and spoons; mixing bowls; of bread, invite them to experiment Option 2: Same Sound Sort Option 2: Experimenting With a Recipe spoon or pencil; measuring or magnetic letters and magnetic sifter; baking pan or muffin tin; with different ways to mix, e.g., cup; funnel; food coloring board spatula; pot holders; scoop Intentional Teaching Card Intentional Teaching Card M10, LL12, “Same Sound Sort”; “Biscuits,” or M33, “Apple Oat Muffins”; adding wet ingredients to dry,