“I liked the book because it was using math and numbers,“ said Pritka. “It was kind of like math,” agreed Annie. “When they were spilling stuff, they were subtracting. And they were always spilling stuff.” she giggled. “I think they were a little clumsy.” “It would be fun to have something like that at our school,” said Lucy. “Everyone would come.” Juan’s eyes lit up. “That’s a super duper idea,” he said. “Yeah, we could make ice cream sundaes . . . just like they did in the book,” said Zach. Lucy thought for a moment. “But, it would be hard to decide which flavors to have,” she said. “How about Toenail-Fingernail Twist?” said Zach with an impish grin. “Ewww.” groaned Meg and bopped him on the head with her paper. “We could make the largest ice cream sundae ever,” said Annie. “And . . . I want a banana and two cherries on mine.” “This book is making me hungry,” said Zach. “Me too,” agreed Keisha. Then Juan stated it very simply, “I like this book because I like ice cream. TEACHER TALK LANGUAGE ARTS FUN Brainstorm a list of ice cream flavor words. Record on chart paper. strawberry peach vanilla chocolate mint banana Brainstorm a list of ice cream words. Record on chart paper. swirl twirl cluster crunch ripple chip Now be inventive. Mix and match the words on the two charts to make some new combinations. For added fun have children work in small groups. strawberry . . . . swirl peach . . . . . . . crunch Go a step farther. Brainstorm a list of weird words. Record on chart paper. liver garbage pickles squirrel mustard Now be even more inventive. Mix and match the three charts to make some very unusual combinations. chocolate . . . . . liver . . . . .dip . . . . chocolate liver dip strawberry . . . . squirrel . . .swirl . . . strawberry squirrel swirl banana . . . . . . garbage . . crunch . .banana garbage crunch orange . . . . . . .mustard . . cluster . .orange mustard cluster mint . . . . . . . . .pickle . . . .ripple . . .mint pickle ripple What a delicious way to increase vocabulary. SUNDAE VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT Make a set of flash cards using the words in the LANGUAGE ARTS FUN lesson. Write ice cream words on each card. Use these cards as flash cards. Children can take turns flashing the card other children to read. This is a great example of kiddles teaching kiddles. MATH FUN -- UNIFIX SUNDAES Children will have fun creating sundae combinations with UNIFIX CUBES. (interlocking cubes) Assign each flavor, sauce, and topping a UNIFIX CUBE color. Write the following KEY on the chalkboard. KEY: Vanilla . . . . ===> yellow cube Chocolate . .===> brown cube Hot Fudge . ===> purple cube Caramel . . .===> orange cube Sprinkles . .===> red cube Nuts . . . . . ===> blue cube Reproduce the chart on page 15 by writing it on the chalkboard. Have children use the code on the board to construct their unifix sundaes. YELLOW---PURPLE-----RED BROWN-----PURPLE-----RED vanilla-hot fudge--sprinkles chocolate-hot fudge--sprinkles YELLOW--PURPLE--BLUE BROWN--PURPLE--BLUE vanilla-hot fudge--nuts chocolate-hot fudge--nuts YELLOW--ORANGE--RED BROWN--ORANGE--RED vanilla-caramel--sprinkles chocolate-caramel--sprinkles YELLOW--ORANGE--BLUE BROWN--ORANGE--BLUE vanilla-caramel--nuts chocolate-caramel--nuts If you like THE SUNDAE SCOOP, you may also like the following books. ICE CREAM by Elisha Cooper (find out how ice cream is made) WEMBERLY'S ICE CREAM STAR by Kevin Henkes (for the board book crowd) For a list of wild ice cream flavors visit these sites: http://www.goodrichicecream.com/menu.html http://www.benjerry.com/our_products/flavor_graveyard/departed_flavors.cfm http://www.hotlicks.net/flavors.html |
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