Wednesday, September 17, 2008

1st Grade Cookie Night

All of the 1st grade classes have been busy reading and doing activities involving the book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. I volunteered in Allison's class on Monday and helped the kids decorate their cookie costumes and today they baked chocolate chip cookies. Tonight was a fun family event to incorporate reading, math, art and performance with the book. When we walked in the Multi Purpose Room, Mrs. Skinner handed us a list of activities to complete. Allison had to taste test Oreos, Lorna Dorne shortbread, Nutter Butters and Chips Ahoy and put her favorite on this cute class graph. She also guessed how many chocolate chips were in the cookie jar, made a cookie frame, did math problems with cookies and made a mouse puppet. The highlight of the night was when the kids came out dressed like cookies. Too cute! The recited some cute cookie-themed poems and looked positively delicious.
Wait-those aren't 1st graders! The dads wanted in on the fun, or maybe the moms wanted to have fun at the dads' expense. Anyway, aren't Byron, Matt and Matt the cutest cookies you have ever seen?