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Preschool Learning: Preschool Recipes & Daycare Lunch Menu Ideas


Delicious Dirt Cups

This recipe can be made with the children as a group cooking activity. Cooking with children will get them familiar with numbers, measuring, and working as a group. They will also love eating these yummy treats which they helped to make. They can eat them for an afternoon snack or for a dessert treat after lunch.

*Note, before filling dirt cups, write each child’s name on the side of the plastic cups with a bold marker.


Things You’ll Need:

• 2 cups of cold milk
• 1 package of instant chocolate pudding
• 2 cups of thawed cool whip
• 20 crushed chocolate sandwich cookies with icing in the middle (chocolate or vanilla icing, it doesn’t matter)
• 10 clear plastic cups
• Gummy worms

*You can change the amount of each ingredient depending on the number of children in your care.

What To Do:

1. Pour milk into a large bowl and add the pudding mix. Beat at low speed until well blended. Let stand for 5 minutes.

2. Mix cool whip and half of the crushed cookies.

3. Place 1 tablespoon of the cool whip mixture in bottom of cups, then add a gummy worm to each cup.

4. Fill cups ¾ full with pudding mixture then add remaining crushed cookies on top.

5. Garnish with gummy worms.

Enjoy!

Article by Dane Robinson. Visit www.preschoollearningonline.com

 

Homeschooling - Many Choices... Many Challanges

by John Edelson

One of the challenges of homeschooling education is selecting curriculum that meets the needs of each child. Many families find that what fits one child, may not fit another, or that what worked well one semester, may feel stale and stop working the next. Or in some cases, what works for one child in one subject, does not work for the same child in another subject. Well, nobody said it was going to be easy.


What most families discover is that their family's educational needs cannot be met by a single curriculum. And that blending several homeschool programs and approaches can increase effectiveness. This eclectic homeschool approach allows the optimal education for your child

Time4Learning is a great homeschool education partner because it offers each child their own learning path, with animated lessons, interactive activities, unit assessments, and integrated printable worksheets for reinforcement.


Time4Learning is a great homeschool curriculum choice. Some parents use Time4Learning as supplementary, others use Time4Learning as the primary homeschooling curriculum. Time4Learning has curriculum for homeschool children in Preschool, Grade School, and Junior High. Time4Learning provides a comprehensive language arts and math curriculum and includes science and social studies.

Visit John's web site for homeschool curriculum.

 

Rocketry Projects by Aurora Lipper

 

For every action, there is equal and opposite reaction. If you blow up a balloon and let it go (without tying the end), the air in the balloon goes in one direction and the balloon itself goes the opposite way. Rockets use this same principle. The thrust going out the back end pushes the rocket forward.

The rockets we're about to build rely on generating enough pressure and releasing that pressure very quickly. You will generate pressure by pumping in air or through chemical reactions (which generate gaseous products).

Seltzer Rockets Place an Alka-Seltzer tablet in a white Fuji film canister (black Kodak canisters won't work) and fill one-third with water. Working quickly, cap it and invert it on the sidewalk. Stand back. POP! You'll find there's an optimal water level for maximum height. If you work fast, you can get about four launches from one tablet. What happens if you try two tablets at once?

For more rocket experiments, visit our website: www.SuperchargedScience.com.

Since 1996, Aurora Lipper has been helping families learn science. As a pilot, astronomer, mechanical engineer and former university instructor, Aurora can transform toilet paper tubes into real working radios and make laser light shows from Tupperware.

Get the free Science Experiment Workbook from the Supercharged Science website: http://www.SuperchargedScience.com.

 

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