C is for Cookie!

 Daily Question:  Do you like cookies? (Surprisingly, this year it was not unanimous)

Toys:  Fisher Price Castles, "Cargo" ships (pirates), and Wooden Cookie Set, Skee-ball, 

(Eva's cousin) Anna, Cole, & Henry Baking Cookies

 

Pirate Faces!  Funny to hear the children speak about being "good pirates" verses "bad pirates" and later, "We are the badder pirates!"  (Ones who kept using, "please." He he)
 
 
        

Snack Time:  Wheat Thins and sliced peaches (with ghost flag skewers), carrots, and carrot cookies.  Polite children say; "More water please!," "Thank you, Anna," "I'll help you!"

 

  Math/Language Arts Time:
*I used my big red hand pointer to identify the letter C and also talk about how C is the copycat letter.   (It sounds like K or S in words).  Examples include C as in celery (s) or  circus (s), or c as in cake (k), caterpillar (k), car (k), cat (k), class (k), carrot (k), etc.

We used our mini cookie manipulatives (Cookie Crisp) to count and talk about arrays (Multiplication) and Division.  It was fun to hear Eleanor say, "I have 18 cookies!"  Another child said, "I counted my cookies all by myself!"  Other students counted their cookies also.  We read The Doorbell Rang and divided our cookies each time the doorbell rings in the story and we share our cookies once again with more friends.  We were glad that in the end Grandma shows up with a large tray of cookies!

We enjoyed listening to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and talking about story predictions.  (Parents, this is a fun way of helping children understand by asking "What do you think happens now?").  This is a "pattern" book--meaning that it is all about actions,  and consequences.



Cookie Counting and sharing (division)
 
 Eleanor Shows us If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.


We also read Cookie's Week about an indoor cat (who looks like our outdoor cat and unofficial class mascot, Boo) who has a week full of misadventures.  It is fun to laugh at a cat who spills dirt and falls in the toilet and has "bad days" too.  (Days of the week recognition).

Finally, we read Dade's ABC Book which has photos and names of family members, friends, and favorite things and places.  Thank you for sharing some of your favorites with us Dade.



Dade helps choose what came next as we "retell" the Mouse Cookie story.

Books Read:
Cookie's Week bvy Cindy Ward and Tomie dePaola
The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins and Suzanne Toren
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff and Ill. by Felecia Bond
One for Me, One for You by C.C. Cameron and Ill. by Grace Lin
Mouse Cookies & More: A Treasury by Laura Joffe Numeroff and Ill. by Felecia Bond

Music and Movement:

We enjoyed the silly Mouse Cookie Song (CD) and moving freely around the room