Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Week 1

On Tuesday, the students walked into the world of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! 

We immediately fell in love with Charlie Bucket, and felt compassion for him as he was poor, and did not have much to eat. 

He nibbled on a bar of chocolate and made it last for a month! (So we got a chocolate Kiss and nibbled on it for the entire day.)

Charlie also loved the delicious, sweet aroma of chocolate when he walked by Mr. Wonka's factory. 

We played "Guess the Sweet Smell":

Peppermint

Chocolate

Vanilla

Bubble gum

Cinnamon

Marshmallow

...and caramel!

On Thursday, I hid 5 golden tickets around the room. The kids searched all over...and 4 tickets were found by these lucky winners.

The rest of the class was pretty sad!

There was 1 more ticket left, and that one was found by Jason later on in the day (sorry I didn't take a pic of that!).

On Wednesday, we read about Violet Beauregarde who loved to chew GUM. After the reading, each student got a small piece of bubble gum, and we had a bubble-blowing contest!

They chewed...

...and chewed...

...and chewed some more.

The pieces were pretty small, so it was really hard to blow bubbles! 

Before dismissal time, I told the kids that I contacted the Wonka Company and got 20 miniature Wonka Bars. The assignment was to take it home, open it in front of an adult, and send a picture IF and only if there was a golden ticket inside.

We were not hopeful since the odds were against us. 

To our utter amazement, it turned out that the Oompa-Loompas were quite generous...they filled every Wonka Bar with a miniature golden ticket! 

On Friday, we pretended to be the workers in Wonka's Chocolate Factory, and made our own taffy using marshmallows. 

Here is a video of the taffy tasting:

We are looking forward to WEEK 2 of our most fantastical, silly, and imaginative book! We LOVE Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!