Today will conclude “pancakes” as your theme. Of course, you will read Laura Numeroff’s If You Give a Pig a Pancake as your story time book. Sing “Do You Know the Pancake Man.” (I know the “Do You Know” song is getting old….but kids like routine and repetition, and it is especially beneficial for students with cognitive and language delays).
Naturally, today is pancake cooking day! You can use a mix if you prefer, but I like to make the pancakes from scratch so that the students can see the process from start to finish….how eggs, flour, milk, sugar, and a few other ingredients turn into the flat, pancakey goodness! The best way to cook them is on an electric griddle or in an electric skillet. Whenever I cooked in an electric appliance in my preschool classroom, I always set up a little table in front of the students so that they could see me cooking but they were not close enough to reach out and touch the appliance. Have the students read the recipe off of your recipe poster and mix/measure the ingredients. As long as they are VERY closely supervised, you could let the students come up and help pour the batter onto the griddle-but I would ONLY do this if an adult was available to stand right with the students as they poured. Provide several toppings for students to try…syrup, fruit, jam, whipped cream….the sky’s the limit!
For fine motor today, you will be getting ready for tomorrow’s art activity. This will take a good deal of preparation by you ahead of time. You will be making “soup pots” tomorrow, so your students will be “chopping vegetables.” For each student, you will need to cut a potato, celery stalk, carrot, and tomato out of construction paper. The students will “chop” the veggies with their scissors. Once they have finished, put the chopped veggies in a plastic bag with the student’s name on it to save for tomorrow.
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