Milk!

Hello!  Last week, we starting learning about food and how it gets from the farm to our table.  Today, we are going to learn about dairy foods.  I'm holding one of my favorite dairy foods, cottage cheese.  This will be my lunch today!

Before we do that, let's watch and move to this video called "Good Foods" by Jack Hartmann  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dR22hbln6w

Story:  Dairy foods are foods that are made from milk.  Milk is good for your body.  We get milk from cows.  Here's a fun story about a cow that likes to eat cookies.  It's called The Cow Loves Cookies by Karma Wilson.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8QQvGrTNyY  Do you think cows really like to eat cookies?  I'm guessing that you like to eat cookies and maybe you like to dunk them in milk, too. 

Do you know how milk gets from the cow to the grocery story?  Watch this video about a dairy farm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT-oKQTCEr4    There are a lot of dairy farms in Iowa.  Most of the milk that you drink comes from Iowa farms. 

Science/Vocabulary:  The milk that cows make can be made into other things that you like to eat.  See if you can think of things that are made with milk.  You might need to look in your refrigerator for ideas or ask for a grown-up's help.   On a piece of paper, draw a line down the middle.  On one side of the paper, have a grown-up write the word liquid.  On the other side, write solid.  Something that is liquid can be poured or flows easily.  Something that is a solid has a firm shape.  Now write or draw things that are made from milk on each side.  Some of the things may be tricky to determine and some things could fit into both categories.
If you have heavy whipping cream at home, you can watch a liquid turn into a solid.  Pour the cream into a small jar and shake it.  You will have to shake it a lot.  After a while, the fat in the cream will become solid.  It is butter.

At preschool, we have done some fun things with milk.  It might be fun to do them at home with a grown-up's help.
Magic Milk:  For this experiment you will need milk, food coloring and dish soap.   Pour a little milk into a dish (cannot be skim milk).  Drop food coloring onto the milk.  Do not stir the milk.  Put a small amount of dish soap on a Q-tip or eraser of a pencil.  Touch the milk with the Q-tip.  What happens?  Do you remember why the color moves away from the Q-tip?  It is because of the fat that is in the milk.  The soap makes the fat move away and takes the color with it.
Rainbow Toast: For this fun snack, you will need bread, milk, and food coloring.  Mix a small amount of milk together with food coloring.  Make as many colors as you'd like. Use a pastry brush or small brush to put the colored milk on the bread.  Be careful to not get the bread soggy.  Put the bread in the toaster or oven until the milk evaporates.   Now you have toast that looks pretty and is good to eat!

Math:  The May Math Journals are available from prekinders.com until May 15th.   Type Math Journal in the search box.  You can print them or just download them on your computer and read the directions aloud.

Letter Learning:  The sight word for you today is "can".  Print the word on paper and ask your grown-up to help you make sentences using the words "I can".  I know you can do a lot of things!

Remember, you can access the Let's Find Out Magazines at letsfindout.com  Sign in as a student and use the password "redeemer".  I have the paper copies of the magazines.  I am saving them to give to you on our special pick up day.  

Here are some pictures from last week.

Cooper's aunt has chicks!