Carter's Blog

After begging me for days, I gave in and helped Carter start a blog of his own.  He's anxious for comments if you have the time. Check it out at http://carterinthedell.blogspot.com

Chocolate Tasting in the Classroom

Before the break began, I was a guest reader in Carter's classroom on the last day of school.  I choose to read the new Christmas book by David Shannon and showed a picture of when I met him last summer.  Then we did an experiment with the varying degrees of cacao in chocolate.  The kids got a quick lesson on percentages and then we did a chocolate tasting with the different kinds of chocolate.  There were a few who liked the darker chocolate (70%) but it was agreed collectively that 90% was GROSS!  Kids were racing to the water fountain.  One weird fact is that no where is it revealed how much cacao is in a hershey's kiss.  We predicted due to taste and the research we did find that it has between 30-35% of cacao.  

Christmas Break Fun

Some things we did to pass the time over Christmas break were:  a ton of christmas movies; the favorite this season was Home Alone 2 and Prep and Landing.  We visited a nearby castle park where the kids played until we were too frozen to move and then went out for an ice cream cone.  Ice cream in cold weather is the best.   No melting!

The kids also played with all their Christmas loot.  Carter built his lego in a record two days and Haleigh learned how to cross stitch.  There was more snow and we thought it was cool when our front door and stairs got blocked one day.  The kids decided to try to shovel snow one day and decided that it is really hard work!  Carter offered to donate his savings towards a four wheeler with a plow.  I told him I'd keep that in mind for next year, maybe.  

We had lots of cookies and treats and stayed in our pj's for days at a time.  Now that's what I call a vacation!