Cookie Venn-diagram* Adding cookies*
Estimate the number of grains of wheat in a jar
Graph favorite pie
Measuring ingredients (see the Cooking section)
Dramatic Play
Little Red Hen Dramatization
Grains of wheat
Rake
Trowel
Stalks of wheat
Cardboard scythe
Mortar and Pestle
Playdough
Bread pans
Play Bread
Apron
Chick paper plate masks
Science
Compare cracked, whole, and puffed wheat
Compare the weight of sacks of flour
Plant wheat seeds
Examine bakery tools
Take a field trip to a bakery or to the school kitchen
Library
Bread-shaped blank books
Books and tapes about the bakery
Several versions of Little Red Hen for comparison
Several versions of Gingerbread Man for comparison Bakery words*
Flannel board figures for Little Red Hen and Gingerbread Man
Music
Song Cards for nursery rhymes Rub a Dub Dub, Hot Cross Buns, Little Jack Horner and Patty Cake, Patty Cake Five Little Honey Buns with Props* Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar? with props
Ella Jenkins' song No More Pie Watermelon Pie! (see the Interactive Charts section)
Block Center
Task cards using bakery pictures
Pictures of silos and farms
