Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate!

Our winter intensive has kicked off with a huge chocolate explosion. Your child has been immersed in the world of chocolate. We have already learned so much about chocolate, but we still have a few more days to acquire as much knowledge as possible.

Put your child to the test.
  Where do Cacao Seeds come from?
  What part of the world does Cacao Trees grow?
   What tool do people use to harvest the Cacao pod?
   What is on the inside of the cacao pod?
  
We are still working on learning the process of cacao pod to cacao seed, cacao seed to cocoa to chocolate. Your child has been learning new and challenging vocabulary words as well.

Here is a website that we have been visiting to learn more about the process of how chocolate is made!

http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/chocolate/

Once you are on the website scroll to the bottom and have your child do the interactive games about the Cacao Farm and Manufacturing of Chocolate.