Caterpillars, Cooking, and Cargo




Caterpillars 

The children have shown a great deal of interest in the caterpillars. They noticed how the caterpillars look like "little snakes" and "worms." To strengthen the children's understanding of the caterpillars we provided them with white paper and markers to draw their interpretation of the caterpillars. 









Michigan Standards of Quality for Infants and Toddlers

Strand C, Goal 3: Infants and toddlers experience environments where they learn strategies for active exploration, thinking, and reasoning.

Strand C, Goal 5: Infants and toddlers experience environments where their interests and initiative provide direction for learning opportunities and for the practice and mastery of developing skills.

Strand D, Goal 1: Infants and toddlers experience environments where they develop attitudes and skills to communicate successfully with others.

Strand D, Goal 2: Infants and toddlers experience environments where they have opportunities to communicate through the use of symbols/pictures, signs, and stories.



Cooking 

The dramatic play area is the most popular area of our classroom. The children display their cooking skills to their peers, whether it is how to make kafta or how to mix all the ingredients together for cookies. We wanted to empower the children to create their own food using simple ingredients. So far, we have created mini pizzas, apple dippers and banana dippers.


Mini Pizzas                                                                                    Apple and/or Banana Dippers 

Ingredients: English Muffin, Mozzarella cheese,                Ingredients: Apples, bananas, sun butter, 
 pasta sauce, olives, cut up peppers                                     granola, crisp rice cereal, life cereal,
                                                                                                   cinnamon toast crunch.
                                             

Procedure:                                                                             Procedure:
                                                                                            
1. Cut English Muffin in half                                                 1. Cut apples into fifths and cut bananas   
2. Apply sauce to the top of English Muffin                                 in half. 
3. Add Mozzarella Cheese                                                      2. Smoother apples and/or bananas with 
4. Add toppings                                                                           sun butter     
5. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.                                               3. Cover apple and/or bananas with 
6. Place English Muffin pizzas                                                          granola or cereal of your
   for 15 minutes.                                                                                choosing                                                         
                                                                                                   













Michigan Standards of Quality for Infants and Toddlers


Strand C, Goal 1: Infants and toddlers experience environments where the importance of spontaneous play is recognized and play is valued as meaningful learning.

Strand C, Goal 3: Infants and toddlers experience environments where they learn strategies for active exploration, thinking, and reasoning.


Strand D, Goal 3: Infants and toddlers experience environments where they discover and develop different ways to be creative and expressive about their feelings and thoughts.


Cargo 

We have been working together with Room 2 and Room 8 in how we can efficiently move our cargo up and down the hallway. We placed small red buckets on top of the scooters and attached a long rope to each scooter. The children have developed several strategies for filling up their "train" and hauling their "cargo."












Michigan Standards of Quality for Infants and Toddlers

Strand C, Goal 1: Infants and toddlers experience environments where the importance of spontaneous play is recognized and play is valued as meaningful learning.

Strand E, Goal 2: Infants and toddlers experience environments where they are affirmed as individuals

Strand E, Goal 3: Infants and toddlers experience environments where they are encouraged to interact and learn with and alongside others.

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