Where are foods from

 This week, Grade 1s had a very busy schedule. They showed their understanding of sources foods. They have a clear idea that foods come from two main sources: plants and animals. They looked at the first and second lines of inquiry:

            a.     Where foods are from

            b. steps involved in getting food to our table

We were lucky that one of the Grade 1's grandmother is very fond of gardening and planting. She came to the class and taught the Grade 1s how to plant lettuce and komatsuna. Both seeds are fit for autumn season. 

We also planted potatoes behind the MPR. This sparked their curiosity as they noticed that in their first planting activity, they planted seeds while in the second one, they planted the crop (potato) itself.

This led us to looking into different ways to grow plants: 

        a. from seeds

        b. from crops

        c. from cuttings/stemming

        d. from spores

        e. from leaves

They were amazed to learn that not all plants were grown from seeds alone. We are hoping to get the chance to do stemming. If we can find the right flower to use, we may try it in the class this coming week. :)

We are looking forward to harvesting these vegetables (lettuce and kimatsuna) by first or second week of October. As the school is working in partner with FBK (Food Bank Kansai), Grade 1s will donate the Komatsuna vegetables in support of the HUG project.

This week, we also looked into the process of how noodles are made. We visited the first ever cup noodles museum in the world: Nissin Cup Noodles Museum in Ikeda, Osaka. In the museum, Grade 1s learned the history of noodles and cup noodles, and how it spread throughout the world. They also decorated their own cup and created a personalized cup noodles by choosing the flavour and the ingredients they like to include in the cup noodles.

What a great week indeed it is! :)