Chocolate Chip Cookies

FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES:

VOCABULARY

• cookie
• chips
• chocolate

MATH

• Chocolate Chip Count
• Cut out 10 circles from brown construction paper
• Number them 1 to 10
• Have children count out appropriate number of chocolate chips and match them to the appropriate number on each "cookie" circle

• Chocolate Chip Grouping
• Make different groups with chips or cookies:
• Have your child compare each group
• Label "more" or "less"

SCIENCE

• Show the concept of melting
• Hold a chip in your hand
• What happens? Why?
• Discuss what will happen when the chocolate chips are placed in the oven?
• Try holding other objects: ice, marble, etc.
• Predict and compare

LANGUAGE ARTS

• While the chocolate chip cookies are baking in the oven, you can sing this song with your child: "Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?"
  "(CHILD'S NAME) stole the cookie from the cookie jar"
  "Who me?"
  "Couldn't be"
  "Then who?"

• Have your child dictate the steps from the Chocolate Chip recipe

ART

• Q-Tip Painting
• Supply a round piece of cardboard paper
• Have your child add "chocolate" chips by dipping a Q-Tip into brown paint