Salt

We want to know
-how salt is made
-how salt has vinegar inside it, I think salt does, maybe it has sauce inside it, but it's just white just like water
-how it grows, I know it's a seed and it gets bigger and bigger, maybe it's a tomato plant and they painted it. I want to know what plant it comes from
-it could be a cord, and chopped off and they could paint it
-or it could be an eye that they painted, it might be a teeny teeny tiny eye, but I'm not sure because we don't like to eat eyes because they're yucky, but you can eat fishes' eyes even though they're yucky.

What we did
-I put salt in one bowl and sugar in the other, they tasted both
-Description: they look the same, one is sugar and the other salt, sometimes they do look the same and sometimes they don't look the same, both were white, they were hard little pieces, salt tasted yucky, but when you taste it with food it tastes yummy.
-We use salt for cookies and food, for playdough, for drawing letters, for glitter
-We dissolved salt in water. We talked about the water being clear and the salt white. As it dissolved the salt became clear like the water. Then we poured it on a jellyroll pan and put it in the oven for 30 minutes or so. The water evaporated and the salt was left and was white again.
-Read in a book about sweat being salty. Ezra practiced site words: a & the, while we read. I would pause when I came to one of those and he would read them.
-We had a taste test. I had the kids smell each item and guess what it was. They wrote what they thought it smelt like it. Then they tasted it and wrote what they thought it was. I then showed them and we talked about what it was and what it tasted like. After we wrote down sweet, salty, hot, spicy, creamy, and bitter and wrote foods that we could think of in each category.

Salt glitter



Salt glitter
1/4 c salt
1/2 t vinegar
2-3 drops food coloring
mix all and spread on a baking sheet, bake at 300 for 20 minutes or until dry
we wrote with glue sticks on paper and covered the glue in the salt glitter.

Sang "Fish and Chips and Vinegar" we sang it in a round
Lyrics
1)Fish and chips and vinegar, vinegar, vinegar
Fish and chips and vinegar, pepper, pepper, pepper, salt
2)Don't throw your trash in my backyard, my backyard, my backyard
my backyard's full

Salt Letters



We poured some salt in a pan and practiced writing letters in it.

Writer's Workshop



We were at the store and counted how many different boxes of salt they had. We talked briefly about the differences and uses. Ezra drew pictures of the salt and people choosing which box of salt they wanted to buy.

We learned
-salt is a rock and the only rock we eat
-there are over 14000 uses for salt
-salt is all over and evidence that the earth was once under water
-Ezra - salt comes from the sea, they dig it off the ground and the tractor has to carry it because it's so heavy, then they put it into bags, they put the salt water in a pond, and the hotness makes the water evaporate and salt is left, and this dirt and the mud
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JKQZCxj-eg