On the way home from this morning's swim lessons, the girls decided that our Mom School activity would be to make cookies, M&M cookies. Then they made up their own story so as to make making cookies a follow up activity. Manipulators.
So our story today is "The M&M and the Alien", by 6YO Yellow. I have captioned her work, in case you are not fluent in early writer language.
The author, Yellow
"Once upon a time an M&M went to outer space."
"An alien turned the M&M into an M&M cookie."
"It is so sad."
"She went back to earth."
"Everyone said 'What happened?'
It was a long sad story."
"The End"
Yellow used her remaining pages from her first grade journal to write and illustrate the story (on her own).
To give this activity a little educational value for Pink and Purple, we sorted the M&Ms by color, and had Purple name the colors.
If I would have had more patience, our next step would have been to count and graph the M&Ms by color, such as this.
But I was a bit stressed in monitoring the cleanliness of everyone's hands, since we were going to then use those M&Ms in cookies that we would have for our big group playdate later. Germs are killed by baking, right?
By the way, a few days ago I picked up this chip dish from the dollar spot at Target, and I have already used it several times. None of which were for chips.
Pink and Purple hung out with me while I assembled the cookie dough, adding the M&Ms when it was time.
And here are the finished products - M&Ms turned to M&M cookies. Wait a minute..does that make me the alien? Is there symbolism in Yellow's story?
And, no, this is not the first time that I have been conned into making cookies for Mom School. Here's that story.
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