¡pancakes!

Last week, I read the book Pancakes, Pancakes! to my two youngest Social Studies classes because we are beginning to learn about natural resources.  The book describes where pancake ingredients come from (flour from wheat, eggs from chickens, etc.).  Naturally when we finished, we had no choice but to make pancakes for ourselves!  (We were supposed to make them on Wednesday, but we had a trip to the children’s museum—which was AWESOME!—see Facebook for pictures.)  Saúl knew this plan, and had therefore been asking me about pancakes all week.  I showed him the Friday square in my plan book, where it said make pancakes, a few times throughout the week.  So when Friday finally came, he was ready!

The timing was great.  God knows what He is doing.  Friday morning, a few of our students received some bad news.  After an emotional homeroom time, everyone needed a distraction.  Pancakes are a wonderful distraction. 

Here is a photographic journey through our morning…

 

Saúl wrote out the recipe.  He cut so carefully around the words (Gaby was sure he was going to cut some off).  Then he decided it looked like a gun, so he cut some more.  Then he thought it looked like a foot.  He was satisfied with that.

 Kioney set the table. 

 I forgot to take pictures the first time, so the kids reenacted it for me.

 We tried to make a BIG pancake like they do in the book, but it didn't really work.  

It was fun to try, and tasty to eat!

 We invited everyone to share our feast.  

The kids explained where all the pancake ingredients came from.

If Gaby ate it, you know it must have been yummy!