Chicks & SALSA!

This week, my language arts class is reading the book Chicks & Salsa by Aaron Reynolds.  

What would a book about salsa be without some actual salsa?  We all agreed that salsa was just what we needed so we made some today!

First we had to chop all of our ingredients:  tomatoes, onion, and cilantro

Next we added a few other ingredients: salt, garlic, red wine vinegar, and a little sugar and mixed it all together!

After it was all mixed, it was time for us to grab some chips and enjoy our salsa!

Everyone tried it and a few friends even wanted seconds and thirds! 

Friends in my LA class, what was your favorite part of making our salsa today?  Did you enjoy it? Post a comment to share with all of us...... or better yet, create your own post about making salsa on YOUR blog! 

Families, you can get to our LA blogs here or via the link under the Language Arts tab at the top:

http://kidblog.org/MissMunteansFriendsinFirst/

Mexican Clothing

Senora Pena-Welch brought in some authentic Mexican attire for our first graders to try on.  Students in 1A enjoyed both the dress and serape!

Thank you, Senora for letting us borrow these!  

Mexican Jumping Beans!

In connection with our unit on Mexico, we used our March PLUSS day to jump for joy for the Mexican Jumping Bean!

Our morning kicked off with Mr. Scott and Senora Neyra reading Lucas and his Loco Beans by Ramona Moreno.

Next, we headed upstairs to the science room to receive our beans, observe them, and learn about their life cycle with Mrs. Filer.  

 We opened a few beans so we could see what the larvae inside look like:

 After lunch we headed up to the art room to work with Mrs. Weiss to make houses for our beans:

We concluded our day with a Mexican Hat Dance lead by Dr. Culbertson:

It was another terrific PLUSS day in first grade!  Thank you to all of our community members who made it possible- Mr. Scott, Mrs. Filer, Senora Neyra, Senora Pena-Welch, Mrs. Weiss, and Dr. Culbertson

I overheard a first grader as he was leaving with his mom today.  He said, "Mama, guess what!? We are going to have six moths in our house!"  Hopefully this won't be the case, but as your first grader should be able to explain to you, with the use of their life cycle drawings, this very well could happen! If you keep your beans in the refrigerator (the area of the fridge where you store butter is the recommended area), the beans will last longer in this state.

First graders, this was such a fun day with you!  What was your favorite part of today?  Post a comment to share with all of us!  

I posted our slideshow of photos from Dr. Seuss Day on Friday. Click here