Today is chocolate chip cookie day! Of course, you are going to read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and sing “Do You Know the Cookie Man” during your story time. At art time, you will make chocolate chip cookies! I love to make them from scratch so that the children can see the process from start to finish, and they come together rather quickly. Cooking activities are not only a science activity, but also a math activity, since students get to measure all of the ingredients. Make a poster showing the ingredients, measurements, and steps to the recipe. Let your students request a turn using verbalizations or vocalizations, signs, or PECS. Let them do all of the measuring, mixing, and scooping! One of my favorite adapted classroom tools is a device that holds a measuring cup that can be turned using a switch so that students with physical disabilities can help to measure and pour the ingredients. If you have access to a stand mixer, you could plug this into a PowerLink. A PowerLink allows you to adapt any electronic device so that it can be powered by a switch, and cordless switches are available to allow students to access devices from a distance. You can switch-adapt your stand mixer!
Make a set of “counting cookies” to put into your math center. Cut a large set of small-to-medium circles from tan construction paper or cardstock. Make two sets of “cookies” with “chocolate chips” on them-drawn on or made with brown dot stickers or chocolate chip stickers. Put a specific number on each cookie, from 0-10, and make 2 sets with no chips on them but with the numeral 0-10 on them. Students can match the cookies with the same number of chips, with the same numerals, or match numerals to the cookies with the same number of chips on them.
Today, for fine motor, have your students cut our 2 medium (pancake) sized circles from tan cardstock or construction paper and a small square from yellow cardstock or construction paper. These will be used for pancakes and butter in tomorrow’s art activity.
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