Reading

• Share The Official M&M'S Brand History of Chocolate Book®.
• Read chocolate poetry and books.

Writing

• Create a menu for a chocolate restaurant.
• Keep a chocolate word list.
• Write a letter to a candy company about one of their products or an idea for a new candy.
• Write poems about chocolate.

Oral Language

• Chorally read chocolate poems.
• Present ideas for a new candy to class.

Math

• Create a Venn diagram comparing chocolate to a lollipop.
• Review fractions with a candy bar.
• Survey people about their favorite chocolate.
• Compare weights of different chocolate.

Science

• Explore chocolate ingredients and nutritional value.
• Experiment with chocolate: How many stirs does it take to dissolve chocolate powder and chocolate syrup in milk?
• Create a model of the life cycle of a cacao tree or a flow chart for the sequence of making chocolate.

Social Studies

• Organize events in the history of making chocolate.
• Create a class book of chocolate facts.
• Read a biography of Milton Hershey.
• Determine the location of cacao tree and the ingredients of a chocolate bar.
• Have a chocolate feast!

• sort by color, number of words, syllables, vowels, consonants, words/no words, and contractions/no contractions
• create graphs to depict how they sorted
• estimate the number of hearts in a box
• compare estimates with the actual number
• determine how to share a box of hearts fairly
• use a scale to weigh hearts
• practice sequencing and patterning
• write word problems based on the nutritional information (each heart is 3-6 calories)
• create sentences, stories, poems class books and word collages
• visit word stations to practice putting letters, words, and sentences together

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