Our Kids Love Cooking (and fun pictures from Enrichment Clusters)

Cooking is one of the top interests in ALL of the grade levels at Laurel Mountain. The Tier III grant we were awarded will turn our current science lab into a demonstration kitchen. We are all super excited about the possibilities. But our fabulous teachers are not going to wait for an official kitchen to cook (however, it will be SO MUCH EASIER AND BETTER to cook when we have a real kitchen). Our students interest and love for cooking was very apparent today. So many of our classes cooked or baked during their E-slot. Check out the pictures below.

PS - Of course, our 4th and 5th graders were busy as well today in the third meeting of their enrichment clusters.  I included some pictures of those as well.  Enjoy!

Cooking and clusters, another reason #thisiswhySEM

 According to Mrs. Markle's 3rd grade class' interest survey, they love cooking. So today, they baked cupcakes....

and cookies! Their classroom smelled AMAZING!

Mrs. Nguyen's class also has cooking as one of their top interest areas.  

They cooked Chinese Vegetable Soup, perfect for the fall morning we had this morning.

Ms. Aldridge's second graders cooked healthy snacks today.

The "I Dream of Paint" enrichment cluster worked on their design plans for painting the ceiling tiles in the nurse's office.

The "Clay Creators" were creative with clay.

"Got Science" watched an instructional video on how to do experiments with Alka-Seltzer.  

Today's science theme was experiments involving gas.

Amy Brown, LME parent and owner of Cupprimo, presented to our "Cupcake Wars" enrichment cluster. Here, she was explaining to the students how to test the cupcakes to make sure they are not under-cooked.

Two photojournalist from the "Lion Ledger" took a picture of me taking a picture of them!

"The Groundwork" enrichment cluster got their hands dirty learning about water and erosion.