The History of Chocolate!

 Kia Ora!

Yesterday was the World Chocolate Day - 7th of July. In class the first thing we went and learned about was the history of chocolate. It was a fun day yesterday for everyone in my class. We watched Charlie and the chocolate factory while drinking hot chocolate. It was all about chocolate. While we were working through some questions about the history of chocolate our teachers gave us some chocolate. After the movie we had to create our own lolly that would make people feel funny. We got to share our creations with the class. After lunchtime we had team building.

Here are some facts about the history of chocolate:

The first people that grew the cacao plant were the Olmecs of Mexico. They passed on their knowledge to the Ancient Maya of Mexico and Centeral America, who made a spicy drink out of chocolate.

Christopher Columbus was the first Euroepeon explorer to ever come in touch with cacao beans, this happened in 1502. 

The first chocolate house was opened in London in 1657. 

The first chocolate that was produced to eat happened in 1830.

For the team building we had to build the tallest and strongest tower with pasta and marshmellows. The tower had to be able to hold 3 crunchie bars off of the ground. This activity was really fun, my team had tried a lot of ways and in the end we made it happen. There were 30 pasta sticks and 6 marshmellows that each group had with a long piece of tape. Whoever won got to have the cruncie bars. My team came first with the tallest and strongest and it was just fun.

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