Book Cooks: 26 Step-By-Step Recipes Inspired by Favorite Children's Books by Cheryl Apgar

I love cooking with kids.  I have even attempted it in classrooms of 25 students.  Here is an easy-to-follow recipes (one for each letter of the alphabet) and numerous activities that include songs, poems and chants, that enhance literacy and math skills while students learn and enjoy hands-on-cooking experiences.

Math, Reading, Writing and other activities are numerous in this activity based resource - 
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Eating The Plates : A Pilgrim Book Of Food And Manners by Lucille Recht Penner

Great book to share history with children. Eating the Plates, invites you to learn what it was like to come across the Atlantic on the Mayflower and settling in the New World. The book shares the experiences that the Pilgrims had to endure from ship travel on an open vessel to struggle of survival - choice of food, housing, disease, and bugs. Pilgrims had a hard time finding food that they liked to eat. With the help of the Indians, they were introduced to corn, deer and turkey. Trade brought them spices, molasses and sugar.
The ten recipes at the end of the book are tasty and fun!

Chalk by Bill Thomson

In this wordless picture book, three young children arrive at the park to find a bag of colored chalk that turns their imaginary drawings into something very real. Enchanting!  Check out hte author's website as well - http://www.billthomson.com/

A video as well - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYRw1YcwSUw

Enjoy!

Apples, Apples, Everywhere . . .

Yesterday was the last day of our local Farmers' Market, well at least until the Spring, I just couldn't resist the 1/2 bushel of apples.  So the house now smells like cinimmon, nutmeg and wonderful boiling apples.  This will be out fruit for the cold winter!  So . . . I just had to post some books for kids with an "apple" theme.  Enjoy!

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by   Here is a fun book compelte with map, recipes, video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT2ls2Cxym4 http://delightfullearning.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-to-make-apple-pie-and-see-world.html    Yum!

 Here is a fun lesson linked to Science and Math - http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/apples-apples-apples-lesson-plan

The Apple Pie Tree Book by Zoe Hal is the story of two sisters who have an apple tree. The story describes what happens each season with their tree such as robins building a nest in the spring amidst the apple blossoms and the apples growing larger during the summer while they run in the sprinkler underneath. When fall comes, they harvest the apples and make an apple pie.
The illustrations in this book are called a painted and found-paper collage technique. It results in a colorful and graphic illustration style that will appeal to preschool and kindergarten aged children. It is an excellent book for showing how an apple tree changes over the seasons as well as the key stages of the apple tree's life cycle.

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