December is here! This month we'll be focusing on everything baking. Our dramatic play area has been transformed into our bake shop, equipped with a variety of kitchen gadgets, cupcake tins, baking sheets, measuring cups and spoons! The children made predictions about what would happen if we baked a cake but left out a key ingredient. We found out that if you forget the baking powder, you get a flat cake, and if you forget the sugar, "Yuck!" The children had a blast using measuring cups to measure out the ingredients. We also practiced our math skills by learning how to cut a cake into 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8. The children created paper plate pies with cinnamon that smelled delicious!
Our artist of the month is Alberto Giacometti. Alberto Giacometti was a swiss sculptor who once said, "Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create." The children made amazing recreations of Giacometti's "Man Pointing."
