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Make the first recipe, and another day try the other recipe.
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Divide into teams. Each team uses a different recipe, and gives half its cookies to
the other team. |
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Try making the recipes slightly differently (add chocolate chips, different nuts,
sugar substitute). |
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Make a batch of cookies and divide it in half; keep half the cookies for the family
and give the other half to someone special, with a card. |
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Double the recipe. |
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Make both kinds of cookies, and do a survey asking which kind people like better.
Keep track of what people say, and graph your results. |
When can we go? When will Grandma get here? When does my show come on? Is it
my birthday yet?
This kind of question tells you your child is ready to learn how to keep track of time,
and ready to start using a clock and a calendar.
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Make the play clock on the next page. There are lots of things you can do with it. |
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Set the play clock to show the time you will leave the house to go somewhere fun.
Let your child keep track of the real clock until it looks the same as the play clock.
Then it’s time to go! You can set the play clock to show whatever your child is
waiting for—a special TV show, or the time the older kids come home, or bedtime.
Whenever he says, “When will...?” you can show him on the play clock, and wait for
the real clock to match it. |
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When your child is good at telling time with a face clock, start to use a digital clock
or watch. Look at the digital time, then use the play clock to show the same time as
the digital. Help your child to see that the digital clock shows the hour first, then
the minutes, but usually with the face clock we talk about minutes first, then the
hour. |
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Make a map of some special day, showing all the things your child does in the day,
from morning to night. Draw some clocks to show the times. You could do this at the
end of the day, to tell the story of what happened, or you could do it the night before,
to get ready for the special day. |