Attention Getter: World's Tallest Ice Cream Cone
As the children come to circle time, give them each a brown or white ice cream scoop. (We used fun foam to create ours). Place a cone shape on the floor and tell them that they get to help make the world's tallest ice cream cone. Point out that it needs to be in a pattern of vanilla/chocolate/vanilla/chocolate. Then, ask a child with a white vanilla scoop to put theirs on the cone. Follow with a chocolate. As the children begin to see the pattern grow, they will be able to know when it is time to add their scoop. Continue until all the scoops are on. Count how many scoops there are and then read the pattern together by pointing to the bottom scoop and saying, "vanilla/chocolate/vanilla.." as you move up the cone.
Activity 1: What's Your Favorite Flavor?
We created four paper ice cream cones for the children to smell. On each cone, we glued on cotton balls and added vanilla, root beer, raspberry and mint extract to make them smell like ice cream flavors.
Tell the children that they get to smell each flavor if ice cream and then vote for their favorite. After the children smell all the flavors, let them come up and place a sticky note on the flavor they liked the best. Count and compare which flavors were the least and most liked.
Book: From Milk to Ice Cream
Read, From Milk to Ice Cream to the class. Before reading, ask the group to watch carefully for the order in which the ice cream is made. Tell them that after the story, you are going to see if they can remember the process.
Activity 2: Ice Cream Sequence
Place six pictures from the story in front of the class while reviewing what is happening in each one. (We used the pictures of: cows being milked, milk in vats, children eating ice cream, ice cream in a freezer, pouring flavors in the ice cream, and filling the ice cream containers).
Let the children help you put the pictures in order of what happens first, second and so forth.
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