"C" is for Cookie

The theme for the day at POWERful Beginnings Academy has been one of my favorites thus far.

          "C" is for Cookie.

Some of the activities that were included were of course talking about the letter C, identifying it amongst other pictures and letters, tracing it with our pointer finger on the textured Writing Without Tears card, attempting to write the letter C on a dry erase board, reading two different books about baking/cooking (Sun-Maid Raisins and Mr. Cookie Baker), actually MAKING delicious cookies and a field trip.

I get to teach the best little girl around!!!

{I can see how much we look like one another here! So weird!}

The books suited the theme perfectly and Jocie actually seemed to enjoy them.
She's not a huge fan of new books.
Too bad though, every.single.day we read new books! :)

The cookies of choice?
     Daddy's favorite -- Oatmeal Scotchies

Our planned field trip?
     Daddy's work!
          I wanted Jocelyn to experience making and then delivering a gift to daddy and his co-workers.

I've never tried to make cookies ... or bake/cook in general ... with Jocelyn, so this was a first for us both. Its not that I've never wanted too, but its a real challenge to do this kind of stuff when a person has vision, sensory and motor difficulties.

No matter, I was up for a challenge and the goal was mainly to make it fun no matter how that looked.

I stripped Jocelyn down, cranked up some Mandisa's Good Morning, danced around the kitchen with Jocelyn to get her in a carefree mood and then attempted to have her participate as much as she was willing and able. Amazingly enough she helped empty the measuring cups {even played with them}, held the mixer with me for a little bit and even grabbed some of the cookie dough with her hand.

Jocie seemed to enjoy all of it for the most part. She whined a little bit as this was a new experience, at times got a little scared and it was a challenge for her to demonstrate muscle coordination/control.

All in all, I'd say the preschool lesson was a success! :)

{She could only patiently wait for so long! haha}

{I gave her some flour to play in while I did some of the mixing. She immediately put her hand in it - woohoo! - tasted it, wasn't too sure, made a "this is disgusting" face and then repeated this sequence like 9 more times haha}

{For all those who ate these, we had MEGA clean hands! I must've washed our hands and utensils a dozen times.}

{Such a good helper! She wasn't too keen on the loud mixer.}

While the cookies baked and cooled, we got ourselves cleaned up, ate lunch and then took off on our field trip to deliver cookies to the best people in town.


{Everybody loves cookies! It means the world to me that we have so many people in our lives that are patient so Jocelyn can have the opportunity to say "hi" by waving, hand them a cookie and smile for extensive periods of time so I can capture a picture of Jocelyn LOOKING at the camera. We are certainly loved!}

Today was really fun, a new hands-on learning experience for Jocie and now she's totally passed out in bed.

 

Mama is all smiles!