Creative Minds

Kid’s Corner

{Week 5: Cooking}

Theme: Thanksgiving           Color of the Month: Brown

Note: Please visit the link Kid’s Corner to learn how easy it is to complete our lessons with your child! Our Kid’s Corner lessons are guaranteed to have you and your child learning together, growing together, and having fun together.  Enjoy!

Daily Opener:  

1. Prayer {Say a prayer with your child}
2. Calendar {Click on the link to learn how to use the calendar}.
3. ABC / 123 Song {Sing the ABC’s with your child & sing numbers 1-10 with your child}.

Activity : Turkey Sandwich {Lesson by Briana} 

 (Recipe by: http://www.meetthedubiens.com/2011/10/fun-food-friday-tommy-turkey.html)

Note: The Dubien's blog is a great family blog filled with creative ideas...check it out when you get a chance!

Description:  Children will create a turkey-shaped sandwich.

Materials:

• Bread
• 1 Carrot
• 2 raisins
• Apples {Red, yellowish, green}.
• Your child’s favorite sandwich filling
• {Makes one sandwich}

Directions:

1. Prep the ingredients for your child: Slice the apples with skin on.  Cut the bread and fillings into a circle.  Cut a small triangle out of a carrot for the turkey beak.  Cut the carrot into two vertical strips to make the turkey legs.
2. Lay out all ingredients for your child.  Count all of the ingredients.  Discuss each ingredient.
3. Have your child create a turkey sandwich by arranging the ingredients on the plate to make a turkey shaped:  Make the Turkey body with the sandwich, then add the apple slices above the circle to make the feathers.  Next, add the raisins to the sandwich to make the eyes.  Then, add the triangle carrot to the sandwich to make the turkey’s beak.  Add the carrot pieces to the bottom of the sandwich to make the turkey legs.  When your child is finished, dig-in and enjoy!

Learning Opportunity: Rhyming

1. Your child will learn the names of the ingredients, and can practice counting the ingredients.
2. Your child will learn how to be independent and confident thinkers while they create their turkey sandwich.

Read Aloud:

       Turkey’s All Around                                

Tune: “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”

Turkeys, turkeys all around,

On the fence, and on the ground,

On the Haystack, on the chair,

All around, everywhere,

Turkeys, turkeys all around,

Gobble, gobble what a sound!

   {By: Jean Warren from  http://www.preschoolexpress.com/ }          

Daily Craft: Activity Jar {Click on the link to learn about using the activity jar}

Congratulations: You and your child finished the lesson for the day! What did you thinkg about the lesson today, and what did your child learn?  We’d love to hear your thoughts!           

*Stallone Tested and Approved: {We are so lucky to have Stallone, Annie’s son, test out all of our lessons that we create for you.  We want the lessons to be enjoyable for children, so after each lesson we will post how Stallone did with the lesson in italics under the title, Stallone Tested and Approved}:

Stallone really enjoyed making his sandwich.  He had a lot of fun arranging the apples and counting them at the same time.  He said the turkey was "yummy!"