The Monarch Award:
Illinois' K-3 Children's Choice Award
2009 Master List
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2009 Nominee: Cookie Bite-Size Life Lessons

Everyone knows cookies taste good, but these cookies also have something good to say such as respect, trustworthiness, and patience etc. A tasty approach to teaching important concepts to sweet-toothed children. her character traits make a story

Author: Amy  Krouse Rosenthal

Illustrator: Jane Dyer

Book Activities
    • Introduction: Share the book All in Just One Cookie.
    • Language arts: Discuss why the words in this book are important.
    • Writing: Write new lessons using toys. Make a recipe for friendship.
    • Math: Graph the students' favorite kind of cookies. Make addition subtraction and division word  problems using cookies or numbers of chocolate chips.
    • Science: Practice measuring wet and dry ingredients for cookie recipes.
    • Social Studies: What is the history of cookies? What snacks do children in other countries enjoy?
    • Drama: Extend the examples in the book to make mini-readers theater skits..
    • Cooking/Food: Make up cookie recipes. Then have each student bring in his/her favorite cookie recipe. Then make a classroom cookbook of real and imaginary recipes. Illustrate it.
    • Art: decorate cookies
    • Movement: Act out the gingerbread boy.
    • Technology: Make a slide in Kid Pix about a time you were honest, generous, loyal, etc.

Related Books
  • Books by Amy  Krouse Rosenthal:
  • Coming: Christmas Cookies: Holiday Life Lessons and One Smart Cookie
  • One of Those Days, It's Not Fair, Little Pea, Little Hoot, The OK Book:
  • The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins
  • All in Just One Cookie by Susan E. Goodman
  • If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff

Websites
kids cooking club
kids in the kitchen
cooking with recipes

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