A Chant
Chorus: “Who took the cookie from the cookie jar?
( Child’s name ) took the cookie from the cookie jar!”
Child’s response: “Who Me”
Group response: “Yes, you!” Child’s response: “Couldn’t be!”
Group response: “Then, who?”
(Repeat chorus)
Grade Level(s): K-1
Subjects: Language
Arts, Math, Science, Music, and Physical Education.
Learner Outcomes:
The
children will use the five senses to participate in various cookie activities.The
children will learn to read their classmates names.The
children will reinforce reading readiness skills with cookie chant and
activities.The
children will reinforce math readiness skills with cookie activities.The
children will use the computer and computer software to reinforce phonic
activities.
Duration of Lesson:
1-2 days
Materials:
Cookie jar and paper cookies with children’s name on them. Book - Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar? (by Rozanne Lanczak Williams). Cookie jar pattern, manila paper, catalogs, scissors, glue, markers/crayons. “Who Took the Cookie From the Cookie Jar” class book – page and picture of each member of the class (including the teacher, aide, and other classroom helpers), computer, paper, and printer. Computer, projection device, television, PowerPoint Slide 1, PowerPoint Slide 2, and PowerPoint Phonics Slide presentations, cookies with names for each class member.
Technology Tools/Courseware:
- Computer with PowerPoint program, Cookie Jar PowerPoint Slide 1, PowerPoint Slide 2, and PowerPoint Phonics Slide presentations, television, projection device, camera, printer
- Computer programs that reinforce letter and sound recognition, such as, Friendly Forest Reading Club, Let's Go Read 1, Let's Go Read 2, Reader Rabbit, etc.
- Computer with internet access.
Teacher Notes:
These activities are not only fun, but a delicious introduction to the December holidays. Find a plastic container for a cookie jar. Laminate and cut out cookies. Put the children’s name on the cookie. Place in the cookies in the cookie jar. Run attribute cards (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) on stock paper and laminate. The cookie jar and cookies could be use as a classroom management activity: Cookie jar helpers – pull name out of cookie jar for helpers or use as a tool at dismissal time. "Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar" booklet - Children love seeing themselves in a book, this will be one of most looked at and read books in the library center.
Procedures:
I.
Introduce the lesson with the story and chant, Who Took the Cookie from
the Cookie Jar? (by Rozanne Lanczak Williams). Then, play the
game “Who Took the Cookie From the Cookie Jar?”. Review the chant on the
PowerPoint
1 presentation. Pull the
children’s name out of a cookie jar and have the children practice reading
the names as they come out.II.
Discuss what sound cookie and cookie jar starts with. Have the children
Say the alphabet and clap on the letter "Cc" in the PowerPoint
Slide 2 presentation. Then, name words that begin with the c- sound
around the room. Afterwards, find the c- words/pictures in PowerPoint
Phonics Slide phonics presentation.
III.
Divide the children into three small groups:
- Group 1 - Have students trace and decorate a cookie jar (see cookie jar pattern) on manila paper.
- Group 2 - In a catalogs, have the children find and cut out c- pictures. Glue c- pictures on the back of the cookie jar.
- Group 3 - Using the pattern for “Who Took the Cookies From the Cookie Jar”, and make a class book. Have the children write their names in the blank and glue or tape their pictures in the middle of the page. Be sure to add the teacher’s, aide’s or any other classroom helper’s picture on a page. Collate book. Then, have a picture of “surprise” character at the end with cookie crumbs around them. Perhaps, a mouse or a class pet?
Modifications:
Modify activities as needed for those children with special needs; one-on-one, or peer teaching, etc. Modify as specified to meet Individual Education Plan expectations.
Enrichment Activities:
List
of Books and Stories about Cookies: (To
order books go to: Amazon.com)
Language
Activities:
- “C is for Cookie” song on pg. 9 of Sing Along and Learn the Alphabet by Ken Sheldon (from Scholastic)
- Using the different gingerbread stories, have the children compare and contrast the different endings. On a journal page have the children make a picture what they think happened to the Gingerbread Man. Write down their responses.
- Cookie Recipes Class book- Have the children dictate in a tape recorder. Then the teacher/aide writes down how to make their favorite cookies. Then, type the child’s recipe on a piece of paper. Have child make a picture of their favorite cookie. Put together for a delightful and insightful cookie recipe book.
- Use various types of computer to software to reinforce the alphabet letters and the sounds they make, such as, Friendly Forest Reading Club, Let's Go Read 1, Let's Go Read 2, Reader Rabbit, etc
Math:
- Make a graph of the children’s favorite cookies.
- Fraction cookies – cut cookies into 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4. (Playdoh cookies would be wonderful to use.)
- Story mats: cookie jar, Christmas tree or cookie sheet story mats with gingerbread erasers (from Oriental Trading). Good number recognition and beginning addition/subtraction. For a real treat, use real cookies.
- Cut various shapes or numbers from Playdoh using cookie cutters.
- Make a cookie at … “The Cookie Bakery”
- Games/Activities to play with “Cookie Bakery” cookies using attribute cards ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6):
*Cookie Sorting
*Cookie Graphing
*“Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?”
*“The Cookie Hunt”
*“Whose Cookie will be Left in the Cookie Jar?"
Sensory
Activities:
- Trace around the children on brown kraft paper to make large gingerbread people. Decorate with moveable eyes, scrap material, yarn, and lace, etc.
- “Georgie the Gingerbread Man” by Pennye Pucheu - puppet or flannel board story with using colors and scents.
Movement
Activities:
- Change “Duck, Duck, Goose” into "Mouse, Mouse Cookie" or “Gingerbread, Gingerbread, Fox”.
- “Who Took Santa’s Cookies from the Cookie Jar”
Snacks:
- Cup cooking gingerbread.
- “Night Before Christmas Mice”
- Reindeer Cookies
- Parent gift: Jar Cookies Recipes from Family Crafts at About.com
- Easy Gingerbread cookie recipe: Nursery Rhyme Land
Learning
Centers Ideas: (the perfect time for the 3 R’s - review, reinforce
and reteach): Use various cookie and cookie jar patterns to make centers
for letter sequencing, capital and small letter matching, color words,
letter and sound matching, numeral line-up, numeral and quantities matching,
etc.Evaluation/Assessment:
Observations – group and individual while completing activities.
Checklist at centers.
Computer participation by logging on and off.
"Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar" participation rubric:
Observations – group and individual while completing activities.
Checklist at centers.
Computer participation by logging on and off.
"Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar" participation rubric:
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National
Standards:
Language Arts:
1. Knows the characteristics and uses of computer hardware.
2. Knows the characteristics and uses of computer software programs.
6. Understands the nature and uses of different forms of technology.
Language Arts:
1. Uses the general skills
and strategies of the writing process.
5. Uses the general skills
and strategies of the reading process.
8. Uses listening and
speaking strategies for different purposes.
Music:
1. Sings, alone and with
other, a varied repertoire of music.
2. Performs on instruments,
alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
3.
Improvises melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
Technology:
1. Knows the characteristics and uses of computer hardware.
2. Knows the characteristics and uses of computer software programs.
6. Understands the nature and uses of different forms of technology.
West
Virginia IGOs:
English/Language Arts:
English/Language Arts:
Listening and Speaking
- K.1, K.2, K.6, K.12, K.13, 1.1, 1.7-1.16
Reading Comprehension
- K.14, K.15, K.17, K.19, K.21, K.23, K.32, 1.21-1.25, 1.30, 1.43-1.51
Reading Vocabulary -K.41
Writing – K.42-K.52,
1.57-1.65, 1.70