We love going to Brady's preschool with him. Every Thanksgiving, they have a little program and Thanksgiving feast for all the preschool kids and families. They sang some songs and then we all stayed for a Thanksgiving lunch/feast.
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| Brady's on the top row in the green vest |
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| Feasting! |
Also, right before Thanksgiving, Brady's class was learning about bread. I volunteered to go in one day and help out in his class and do a little experiment I used to do in kindergarten with yeast. I am very fortunate that Collin is usually pretty cooperative and I can just bring him with. I also love that Mrs. Brown loves for parents to come and help and that she doesn't mind that Collin is there with me either.
For the experiment, we put different warm liquids and sugars in small plastic bottles with some yeast. Then you put a balloon on top. Whichever balloon gets bigger is the one the yeast likes the most. We used root beer, apple juice and then regular water with just some sugar in it. It's hard for kids to understand exactly how the yeast makes the bread rise and this is a perfect visual example to show them how the yeast "eats" the sugars and gives off air (gas) to make it rise.
The kids really enjoyed helping me out and loved watching the "Yeast Beasts" get bigger. Mrs Brown is very science oriented in her class and the kids really enjoy observing and doing different experiments with different things so this was a perfect fit for them.
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| Brady's class and you can see the balloons rising on the table |
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| Here's a close up of the bottles/balloons. I let the kids draw faces on the balloons with dry erase markers to make them a "Yeast Beast" |
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| The kids also got to make their own pizzas that day. Here's Brady with a couple friends at his table enjoying their pizzas they made. |
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