Cookie Decorating

Interest in learning about community helpers continues to be a common theme in our classroom. The children continually comment with excitement when they see a 'community helper' such as a garbage collector and truck, or a mail carrier delivering mail and the enthusiasm is contagious amongst the children! Today Jen Goldberg, Annabelle's mom visited with us to share her joys and talents in the baking world. Annabelle was so thrilled to have her mom come to class and talk to the children about her baking career. Our community helper chef was excited to have her community helper job highlighted and the children were delighted to have a hands on opportunity to learn more about baking and cookie decorating.

Jen first spoke with the children about her love of baking and ways that bakers can be community helpers. "Sometimes bakers bake sweet things for a neighbor or for someone who is sick to help them feel better", explained Jen . We discussed what bakers need in order to bake, which led into a great conversation about ingredients and baking tools and equipment.

We passed around a set of measuring spoons and a measuring up that Jen uses when she bakes. The children generated a list of cooking equipment and ingredients that they thought one needed when baking. We talked fairly extensively about the importance of measuring ingredients accurately when baking in order for the baked goods come out tasting right!

Jen had baked red heart cookies prior to her visit and brought lots of yummy treats to use to decorate the cookies with the children for Valentines Day. Jen explained that the frosting acts as the 'glue' for the cookie which enables the decorations to stick!

Creating opportunities to join your child in our classroom experience is very meaningful for yur child. Children love making the connections between home and school and feel so proud in sharing their worlds with each other. Jen's visit was wonderful on so many levels, but especially in bringing to life family and AFS! We look forward to your participation throughout the remaining months of the year.