Sunshine Salad

Layer the salad with:

•     lettuce leaf (optional)
•     slice of canned pineapple
•     scoop of yellow yogurt

Eat and enjoy!

(Fun for children to make.)

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Pioneer Scones

Pioneer Scones

Make your favorite bread dough or thaw out frozen bread/roll dough.  (Look at the Grandma’s Egg Bread (Orange Rolls) and Wheat Bread recipes on this blog.)

When the dough is ready:

• Heat about a 1/2 inch of oil (expeller pressed prefered) in a heavy frying pan.  Don’t let the heat get too high and burn the oil.
• Roll the dough out and cut with a knife into about 3 x 2 inch pieces.
• Fry the dough until it is brown on both sides.
• Cool for a few minutes on a paper towel.
• Then serve with Honey Butter.   (Mix with a fork 1 cube of soft butter with about 1/2 cup of honey.)

Fun Treat!

Pancakes

 1.    Mix with a whisk:

•  2 cups flour (whole grain is best)
•  1 teaspoon salt
•  1 teaspoon baking powder

 2.   Heat frying pan on medium heat.

 3.    Mix in with a whisk:

•  about 2 cups of water or milk
•  2 eggs
•  1/2 cup oil or applesauce
•  2 Tablespoons honey

 4.    The pan is ready for pancakes when you sprinkle a little water with your fingers in the pan and the water dances. Cook pancakes.

 5.    Eat with syrup, applesauce, honey/butter or cinnamon sugar.  It is fun to try new toppings for pancakes.

 6.    Enjoy!

Make and Bake Cupcakes

(Black Bottom Cupcakes)

These are simple to make with the filling inside.  No need to frost these.  Fun to make with children.  Fun to make when learning to read long vowel A words.

1. Mix:

• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 1/3 c. sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 c. small chocolate chips
• Set aside.

2. Mix:

• 1 ½ c. flour
• 1 c. sugar
• 1/4 c. cocoa
• 1 t. baking soda
• ½ t. salt
• 1. c. water
• 1/3 c. oil
• 1 T. vinegar
• 1 t. vanilla

3. Fill lined muffin cups ½ full with batter.

4. Place a heaping spoonful of cream cheese mixture in the middle of each cup of batter.

5. Bake at a preheated oven at 350 for 20-25 minutes.

6. Cool and Enjoy! (Makes 24 muffins)

Measuring

Measuring  (Good math lesson to teach the week the short I is taught.)

Objective: Introduce children to measuring, inches and the tools and words used in measuring.

Preparation:

• Make a word card for Measuring.
• Have measuring tools like cups, measuring spoons, tape measure, ruler, etc.
• Have small objects to measure with a ruler.  (books, blocks, crayons, pencils, tools, toys, etc.)
• Have a wall measuring poster to measure each child.  Plan to leave this on the wall and measure again in the spring.
• Print and make a small book (4 pages) for each child.  inches book
• Get stickers 1 inch square, 3 in. square sticky note pad, yarn cut in 4 in. pieces.
• Have a ruler for each child.
• Suggested book:   ME and the Measure of Things , by Joan Sweeney

Lesson:

• Put up the word card “Measuring”.  Talk about some of the sounds in the word.  (Mm, _s_)
• Read the book and show some measuring tools and discuss how they are used.
• Measure the height of each child on the measuring poster on the wall.
• Have each child select one of the objects to measure or have them pick an object from the room.  Measure each object with a ruler.
•  (You may also want to use a balance scale, ounce scale or postal scale to weigh the small objects.)

Activity:

Give each child the book, Inches.   Help them read the questions? Help them measure and glue items to the page.  Have them write the number of inches on the line.  On the last page have them draw a picture of themselves and write how many inches tall each child is.

Read the book together.

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