Each day we discussed something that had to do with pizza:
The main ingredients make a pizza - crust, sauce, toppings, cheese and spices.
Pizza means pie and was invented in Naples, Italy.
The boys each drew pictures of their favorite pizzas and favorite toppings from other countries.
These are favorite toppings from other countries
We looked at the food groups and wrote down what ingredients from our favorite pizza are in each food group. (We discovered that we are only missing fruit in our favorite pizza.)
The boys each wrote an acrostic poem using the word pizza:
Nicolas's acrostic
Alex's acrostic
Pizza trivia: The longest pizza delivery was from London to Melbourne in 2004 and mapped it.
Each day we also studied a city of Italy, and mapped it.
Venice
Pisa
Rome
Florence
And Mount Etna, Italy's most active volcano
The boys each made their own salt dough maps of Italy:
Nicolas's
Alex's
We also talked about a person from Italy each day:
Marco Polo - and watched a movie about him.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Antonio Vivaldi - and listened to the Four Seasons
Galileo Galilei
Michelangelo
Summaries in pictures:
Nicolas's
Alex's
And finally... the most fun from this week was the food:
Monday, we made a breakfast pizza and had it for supper:
Tuesday, we made a fruit pizza: (This one was a hit and I have a feeling we will make it MANY more times!)
Wednesday, we made a chocolate pizza - It was similar to a s'more on top of a peanut butter cookie.
Thursday, we made personal pizzas:
And Friday, we had an Italian meal:
And Saturday, the boys invited their cousins (and Aunt and Uncle) over for our pizza party. I forgot to take pictures of all the pizzas before we cut them (because we were hungry), but the 4 kids shared making a pizza together. Then each couple made their own pizzas. Here are the 2 adult pizzas (with some pieces missing.)
We had a lot of fun with this unit and we're already looking forward to our next country and doing something similar with the food.
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