Today is your first cooking activity for this theme! Of course, you will still be reading the book If You Give a Moose a Muffin. Make blueberry and strawberry muffins from a mix (you could make more if you want; I just usually do these two). I love to make a poster when I am doing cooking activities showing all of the steps of my recipe in writing as well as in a picture. Boardmaker is great for doing this! Have the students help you read the recipe, dump the muffin mix in the bowl, add the milk, stir, put in the muffin cups, and scoop the batter into the cups. Once the muffins have baked, let each student sample half of each variety of muffin. After the students have sampled their muffins, get out your classroom graph-programmed with the different flavors of muffins, of course-and let each student come up and stick a muffin pattern or a Post-it with his/her name on it in the column of the variety of muffin that he/she liked best.
Just a word about science and cooking activities: don’t forget that cooking is science! There are many different types of changes that take place in food when you mix ingredients together, stir, cut, crack, heat, etc. Have your students predict what they think will happen. Write their predictions on the board or on a sheet of chart paper. After the recipe has been prepared, compare their predictions with the actual result of your cooking activity, then determine if their prediction was correct or not.
For today’s fine motor activity, give each student a large circle drawn on a sheet of tan paper and have them cut it out. Students with physical disabilities can use adapted scissors if needed. These will be used for tomorrow’s art activity. Depending on how you decide to do tomorrow’s art, you could also have your students tear some brown paper or color some white price dots with a brown marker.
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