Cars, Cats, & Cookies!

Theme:  "C" is for Cookie

Choosing Time:  Cars, Garage, Cars Memory, Little Critters

Lesson:  We met Callie Cat and learned that "C" is a fun letter.  We brainstormed words that begin with the "C" sound.  I'm quite impressed with the words the kiddos came up with:  cool, car, crab, cave, cake, ........I showed them a series of pictures.  We had to decide which ones had the "C" sound.

Books:

• Click, Clack, Moo:  Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin
• The Duckling Gets a Cookie by Mo Williams
• Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree by David Korr
  
• The Big Chickens by Leslie Helakoski

Music & Movement:

• Clap the Crazies Out
• Head, Shoulders, Knees, & Toes
• Scat the Cat
• Make Circles and C's with bodies
• "C" is for Cookie
  

Games:

• Race Car Relay
• Who Stole the Cookie From the Cookie Jar? 
• Race our Cars
• Alphabet Bingo with Cheerios

 




 Science:  Examined a Caterpillar spinning a cocoon

Art:  Making Cars out of recyclable materials

 
 
 
 
 
 


Cooking:  Circle shaped sugar Cookies



 
 

 
 
 

Snacks:  We had so much fun looking for the "C's" on the packaging!

• Cheese Sticks & Apples 
• Charleston Chews & Colored Rainbow Goldfish
• Cookies & Cheerios
• Chocolate milk & Cheese
• Cookies, Grapes, & Cheese
• Craisins, Cucumbers, & Animal Cracker Cookies

 
Writing:  "C/c"

Outside Play:  Discovering Chicken Eggs


Reading:  Can

Week Twenty-Four-- "C" is for Cookie

Letter: C
"Callie Cat" introduced us to letter "C". "C" is sneaky. It can make two sounds by itself. It also makes a different sound when "H" follows it. We had fun taking some "CH" words and pronouncing them without the "H"...for example..."Chocolate without the "H" would be "Cocolate"....And then we had fun adding an "H" to some "C" words...for example "Can" with an "H" is "Chan." We giggled a lot.

Choosing Time: Cars, "C" Memory, Cups, Cats, Castles....

Math: Cat Graphing & a lot of COUNTING

Reading: Some of our Word Wall Words included: Cat, Cup, Cupcake, Color, Caterpillar, Can,...

Writing: We practiced "C" and some of us wrote "Cat"

Show & Tell:

Chapstick

Cars

Car Seat

Cool Cycle

Cats

Cool Tricks

Cinderella

Things to Cuddle

Music & Movement:

• "C" is for Cookie
• Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?
• Clap the Crazies Out
• I Can Spell C-A-T

Books:

• Cat has Company
• Big Chickens by Leslie Helakoski
  

Art:

• Colorful Circle Cats with "C" Tails
• Chicken Headbands
  

Snacks:

• "C" Cupcakes, Carrots with Dip, Crackers, & Chocolate Milk
• Circle Crackers & Cheese
• Cookies
  

Field-Trip to Days Market: We had an adventure exploring the grocery store with Tim & Paula. They helped us to identify some interesting vegetables such as brussel sprouts, broccoflower, tomatillos, & cilantro. We enjoyed watching the vegetables get "rained" on. We saw how they recycle the boxes using a big "crusher" and then pack the smashed boxes into bales. We saw & entered the giant refrigerators and freezers. We went to the loading dock where the big trucks deliver the boxes of food to the store. We met a couple of their butchers, Mike & Chuck. We were able to feel the chain mail glove that they wear to protect their hands from getting cut while they cut the meat. We learned how important cows are to our diets. We also went to the bakery and saw the enormous oven they use to bake cookies and bread. The oven can hold 15 pans at a time. The pans are rolled into the oven on a cart. The cart spins while the oven bakes (kind of like a washing machine). We actually were able to meet Alan Day, the owner of the store, who was very kind to the children. At the end of our tour we were each given a cookie and a slice of bread that they make there each day. Yum!

The Incredible Box Crusher

Giant Baking Oven

Birthday Fun!

Cone Confetti Cupcakes