Ice Cream

I kept seeing ideas to go with an Ice Cream theme and finally decided to do it before the weather got too cold.
We started learning about what ice cream is made from and where that comes from. We watched a clip about how it is made.
And we did a lot more than just eat ice cream (although we did plenty of that too)

We used our 'warm fuzzies' (the yarn balls) as scoops of icecream to play with this week.  Ethan is trying to transfer them to different bowls.  We also have the Melissa and Doug Ice Cream set that was used for a lot of ice cream cone making this week.

We had a taste-testing experiment.  I had the kids first taste without seeing what it looked like and guess what it was.  They then had a second taste while being able to see the color.  Brielle got them all right both times.  Ethan guessed they were all Cherry.

 

I made this ice-cream cone game a few years ago to use for primary singing time.  I laminated them so we could use dry-erase markers for a variety of learning games.   These pictures show thinking of words that start with letters, and learning to count by 2s.

We also got in some cutting and gluing practice by making ice cream cones (with real sprinkles, which of course the kids wanted to eat)  

The ball in this picture is a holder for making your own ice cream.  We put the ingredients in and the set up bowling and rolling games to shake the ice cream.  It is the same idea as 'ice-cream in a bag', only your hands don't get as cold!

 Books

The kids liked The Full Scoop which talked about how Ice Cream is made.  The Sundae Scoop was another good math-related book.  Brielle also liked The Banana Split from Outer Space (a silly, short chapter book.  She still gets very excited about chapter books.)

I asked Ethan to show me his favorite.  He couldn't decide on just one.

Preschool Pack

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