Thursday, December 16th

As we near the end of our week and are greatly anticipating the time we will spend with our families over Winter Break, we decided to spread a little festive cheer in Rainey Room today by baking cookies together! 

Snickerdoodles 

​To familiarize ourselves with the ingredients being used, we first took our best guesses about what each ingredient was and what we thought it might be used for. 

Flour
It's powder for cookies. - Wilder
It's a kind of sugar. - Capers

Egg
That's a chicken egg! - Luke

Cinnamon
It's for oatmeal. - Remy
To make some sugar cookies. - Michael 
For making cupcakes. - Frannie
I make chocolate covered raisins with it. - Capers
It's for putting in yogurt and cinnamon toast. - Wilder
I put cinnamon in bananas. - Daniel 
It's to make raisin banana cake. - Jade
For oatmeal. - Saul 
I use it for oatmeal. - Bea
For toast. - Cate
​I put it in my pancakes. - Luke 

​Butter

It's sticky. - Michael 

Baking Powder
That's tomato sauce. It has something red. - Remy (noticing the photo on the can - biscuits with red jam)

It's ice cream. That stuff looks like ice cream. - Daniel (again, noticing the biscuits on the can)
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No, that's a type of bread. - Wilder

Sugar

​Sprinkles? - Bea
Ice? - Luke

​We also took a closer look at some of the baking tools we would be using. 

Whisk
It's a whisk! - Jade
To whisk eggs. - Daniel 
One is rubber and one is metal. - Cate
That's the one my mom uses. - Daniel (metal whisk)

Parchment Paper
It's wrapping paper to wrap it up. - Wilder
No, for putting cookies on. - Wilder
And for putting them in the freezer. - Hugh

Measuring Cups
For the powder. - Hugh
And the flour. - Bea
And the sugar. - Wilder

Rubber Spatula
For scooping up stuff. - Bea
And mixing sticky stuff. - Hugh
Because it's hard to get off the sticky stuff. - Daniel 

A small group of five children volunteered to be our cookie bakers today.
​We plan to enjoy these tomorrow for a special treat on our last day of school!

It looks like cheesy eggs! - Hugh

Time to coat the cookies with cinnamon and sugar! 

It looks like sand or sea salt. - Hugh (cinnamon/sugar mix)

It's gonna make it all brown. - Lily (adding cinnamon)

Some fun cookie shapes were created during the process, including "dog bones"!

Hugh - a dog bone for Zuzu. 
Cape - Who is Zuzu?
Lily - Hugh’s dog.
Cape - Can you also make one for Sweetie?
Hugh - Sure! When it’s my next turn.

Capers included his "Sweetie Dog" in the baking process today.

Hugh shapes a dog bone cookie.

Down to the kitchen to bake. 

Can you feel the excitement?!

And finally, caring for our environment.

We're looking forward to enjoying a delicious cookie treat tomorrow before our holiday Chapel!

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Making Paper

This week, Tucker Room friends were exploring making their own paper. We haven't revisited this process since our Brown Room year! They kindly offered to share some of their paper pulp with us so we were able to make our own paper this week as well. Thanks Tucker friends!