The final Standard Snapshot to go home to parents is a Science lesson. Each teacher taught a string of lessons about where food comes from. As part of this unit the classes visited a Publix grocery store and an ice cream shop to help them understand that while they can buy many food items that the items come from far away. Another lesson in this series is making butter to help students understand that the milk that comes from a cow can be made into many different things. This snapshot describes the students' experience with making butter at school. While we send home one standard student piece with a commentary, the parent also receives their child's work on the same standard attached to this piece. That way the parent can compare their child's work with a standard piece. It is up to the parent to assess how they think their child is doing.
In this standard piece, Imani predicts that butter comes from a cow that has been milked. She describes the process through a functional/ "how to" writing piece which begins with getting the ingredients. Imani describes putting the cream in the jar, adding salt and shaking it for a long time with the top closed. Finally she observes that the butter was wet and thick. The results of the experiment were that when it was all mixed together it made butter and "It was good."
This is a major piece of communication that helps us educate parents on what standard work looks like in Kindergarten.
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