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, Play Doh and Cookie Cutters.


Snack Time:  Crackers and Craisins (and later Cookie Crisp). 
Review our colors and I Can Sing a Rainbow.

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. Students count their cookies.  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)
 

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).

We love One for Me, One For You because it is a story about sharing (cookies, cars, and friendship).

Books Read:
Cookie's Week by 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
Who Took the Cookies From the Cookie Jar? by Bonnie Lass & Philemon Sturges,  Ill. by Ashley Wolff.

Music and Movement:

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