Kid’s Corner
{Week 1: Cooking}
Theme: Snow Days Color: White
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:
- Prayer {Say a prayer with your child}
- Calendar {Click on the link to learn how to use the calendar}.
- ABC / 123 Song {Sing the ABC’s with your child & sing numbers 1-10 with your child}.
Activity: Snowflake Quesadillas {Lesson by Briana} {Recipe adapted from www.familycorner.com}
Description: Children will help create a snowflake quesadilla in the kitchen.
Materials:
- 2 flour tortillas
- Scissors
- cheese
- microwave
- plate
- Picture of a snowflake
- 2 pieces of white paper {one for you and one for your child}
- Kids scissors
- Pen and scratch paper
- Optional: tape
Directions:
- Begin by writing the word “snowflake” on a piece of paper. Spell out the word with your child. Tell your child we will be making snowflakes today!
- Paper Snowflakes
- Before making the snowflake quesadilla, show your child how to make a paper snowflake.
- Fold both pieces of white paper into quarters for you and your child.
- Demonstrate how to cut the edges and sides to make fun snowflake shapes.
- Have your child cut their white paper.
- Open up the paper to see what snowflakes you and your child made.
- Tape your child’s snowflake to the wall or glass door and compliment your child’s great work!
- Snowflake Quesadilla:
- Now, you can make the snowflake quesadilla for your child’s delicious lunch.
- Display the ingredients on a plate and show your child. Discuss what ingredients you will be using {tortillas & cheese}. Have them repeat the names of the ingredients. Ask them a few questions about the ingredients:
o What colors are they? Are the soft, cold, squishy? How many are there?
- Heat up the tortillas in the microwave to make them flexible, about 20 seconds.
- Fold each tortilla in quarters.
- Cut snowflake shapes out of each tortilla, like paper snowflakes.
- Lay one tortilla on a plate and add cheese. Place the other tortilla on top.
- Microwave until cheese is melted.
- Have your child enjoy their snowflake quesadilla!
Learning Opportunity : Cooking
-Your child will learn how to spell and identify the word snowflake.
- Your child will improve their motor skills by using scissors to cut.
- Your child will gain confidence by displaying their snowflake in the home.
- Your child will learn about the food ingredients through observation.
Read Aloud:
Snowflakes: A Cold Winter Day {By Briana}
The snow is falling everywhere
It is so pretty I love to watch and stare
On a cold winter day
There are so many snowflakes all around
One by one they hit the ground
On a cold winter day
If you are lucky you may find a snowflake on your nose,
And even on your toes
On a cold winter day
Snowflakes falling all around
Snowflakes falling on the ground
It is certainly a COLD WINTER DAY!
Congratulations: You and your child finished the lesson for the day! What did you think 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}:
We talked about where snowflakes come from, and how they fall from the sky on cold days and nights. He loved throwing his finished snowflake in the sky, and watching it fall to the ground. He enjoyed learning how to use scissors, though we need more practice with them. Lol He loved to eat the tortilla scraps when designing our "snowflake quesadilla," was saying "snowflake ohhhhhh" after our quesadilla was all ready to eat. It was yummy!!!
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