Chocolate

Sequencing Cards

 

 Rainforest Where Cacao Trees Grow

Chocolate Babka

 

Cocoa Nibs

Dagan's Chocolate Factory

The Great Glass Elevator

 We've been studying chocolate these past few weeks.  We've read books, watched factory videos, and tasted chocolate in many forms. We've learned about the process that chocolate goes through from cacao tree pods, harvesting, drying, transporting, roasting, shelling, grinding, adding of milk and sugar, pouring into molds, packaging and then selling. The boys and I talked about percentages of cocoa in different types of chocolate. They've seen me tempering chocolate and using molds to make truffles.

After reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, we watched the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory from 1971 which I remember watching as a child. We discussed the similarities and differences between both films and the book.

Dagan build Wonka's factory out of legos. There's the chocolate river, the boat, a few of the characters including Charlie, Grandpa and Willy Wonka. He made the grassy field, the glass elevator, and Sage made his own form of vehicle for transporting the chocolate from the factory to be distributed.