A sweet treat in 5 simple steps; Plus: how to connect this special once-a-winter snack to your math lessons!Trina Gunzel Likes to surprise her students in Payson, Arizona Payson is a town at the meeting of three roads in Gila County, Arizona, United States. Its location puts it almost exactly in the geographic center of Arizona. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town is 14,279. by making these s'more snowpeople. 1 Have kids dip marshmallows in chocolate then place them on a graham cracker base. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2 Children create the bodies of their snowpeople by stacking the dipped marshmallows. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 3 Provide mini M & Ms, chocolate chips Chocolate chips are small chunks of chocolate. They are often sold in a round, flat-bottomed teardrop shape (similar to a Hershey's Kiss). They are available in numerous sizes, from large to miniature, but are usually around 1 cm in diameter. , and other small candies for children to decorate the faces of their snowpeople. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 4 To make the M & Ms stick, have children poke a hole in the marshmallow marshmallow /marsh·mal·low/ (mahrsh´mel?o) (-mal?o) a perennial Eurasian herb, Althaea officinalis, using a toothpick toothpick, n a wood sliver used to cleanse the interdental space. toothpick, balsa wood, n a triangular wedge of balsa wood used to clean the teeth interproximally and stimulate the interdental gingival tissues. . (This technique also works for adding hair and arms.) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 5 Licorice licorice (lĭk`ərĭs, –rĭsh), name for a European plant (Glycyrrhiza glabra) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family) and for the sweet substance obtained from the root. whips and cotton candy are fun for hair, and a piece of bubble gum makes a fine scarf! Kids can use pretzel sticks for arms. Before the sugar high commences, invite small groups to write three math sentences about their family of snowpeople. For instance Our snowfamily has 12 marshmallows, eight pretzel stick arms, and eight M & M eyes. 12 + 8 + 8 = 28. Older kids can write multiplication facts. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] More yummy winter math POPCORN GARLANDS Primary-age kids can get a concrete sense of big numbers by making popcorn garlands. First, ask students to estimate how long they think a strand of 100 kernels would be. What about 1,000? Then, have pairs each make a strand of 100 kernels and check their estimate. Hook ten pairs' garlands together to create a strand of 1,000. (Note: Use stove-popped popcorn and thin wire to connect the kernels.) GINGERBREAD gingerbread In architecture and design, elaborately detailed embellishment, either lavish or superfluous. Though the term is occasionally applied to such highly detailed and decorative styles as the Rococo, it usually refers to the hand-carved and -sawn wood ornamentation of GLYPHS Have students decorate gingerbread cookies or color a reproducible gingerbread man according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. your instructions, for instance: "Make the same number of buttons as your age. Make them red if you are a girl, and yellow if you are a boy. Make the eyes blue if you have a sibling and green if you don't," and so on. Then discuss the glyphs. How many 6-year old-girls are in your class? HOT CHOCOLATE IN A JAR This math activity doubles as a take-home gift for friends and family. Have children measure one serving of cocoa mix and put it in a clean baby food jar. Then have them guess how many marshmallows will fit inside and check their predictions. Finally, tie a pretty ribbon around the jar. |
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