Cookies, Cookies, Cookies!!

 Image from: My Cute Graphics

With the holidays fast approaching, all I seem to be doing is baking cookies! Not that I'm complaining, but sometimes I have to take a break from the cookie dough.  I've got a few good books that you can read and a really fun app for the younger kids.  

One of my favorite cookie books has to be The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. I never get tired of reading her version of the Gingerbread Boy. She is one of my favorite authors. I read this too the Kindergarten and First Grade students last week and then we watched Jan Brett draw the Gingerbread Baby. This was a really treat!  She makes it look so easy!  Each year I try and practice, but drawing is not my thing!

There are a few great cookie books that can be found at the Leonardtown Public Library.  Even if they are in there right now, they can always be put on hold.  The first two written by Lisa Campbell Ernst, The Gingerbread Girl and The Gingerbread Girl Goes Animal Crackers. I discovered The Gingerbread Pirates by Kristin Kladstrup last year. I have not personally read Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons by Amy Krose Rosenthal, but it looks like one I will be reading real soon. And I can't forget a great cookie one by Mo Willems, The Ducking Gets a Cookie?! What are your favorite cookie books or do you have a great cookie cookbook? Please share in the comments.

An app that I discovered last year, Cookie Doodle, is a a fun app!  It allows the user to "make" cookies.  The user can either use premade dough or mix the dough themselves. Then they bake the dough and can use cookie cutters to make shapes. Finally they can decorate the cookies.  Last year we had a lot of fun with this app.

Happy Reading!!

Miss Hazuda (@HESMediaCenter)

Cookies, Cookies, Cookies!!

Image from www.mycutegraphics.com

With the holidays fast approaching, all I seem to be doing is baking cookies! Not that I'm complaining, but sometimes I have to take a break from the cookie dough.  I've got a few good books that you can read and a really fun app for the younger kids.  

One of my favorite cookie books has to be The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. I never get tired of reading her version of the Gingerbread Boy. She is one of my favorite authors.  I read this too the Kindergarten and First Grade students last week and then we watched Jan Brett draw the Gingerbread Baby.  This was a really treat!  She makes it look so easy!  Each year I try and practice, but drawing is not my thing!

There are a few great cookie books that can be found at the Leonardtown Public Library.  Even if they are in there right now, they can always be put on hold.  The first two written by Lisa Campbell Ernst, The Gingerbread Girl and The Gingerbread Girl Goes Animal Crackers.  I discovered The Gingerbread Pirates by Kristin Kladstrup last year.  I have not personally read Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons by Amy Krose Rosenthal, but it looks like one I will be reading real soon. And I can't forget a great cookie one by Mo Willems, The Ducking Gets a Cookie?! What are your favorite cookie books or do you have a great cookie cookbook? Please share in the comments.

An app that I discovered last year, Cookie Doodle, is a a fun app!  It allows the user to "make" cookies.  The user can either use premade dough or mix the dough themselves.  Then they bake the dough and can use cookie cutters to make shapes. Finally they can decorate the cookies.  Last year we had a lot of fun with this app.

Student book reviews will be up soon.  I just have to upload two pictures. Make sure that you keep reading over the Winter Break.  I'll be posting some of the titles that I'm reading.  Some Media Specialists and Teachers have been coming up with lists that they think have a possibility of winning The Caldecott Medal, so those are the books I'm focusing on.  The Caldecott Medal is given for the illustrations.

Happy Reading!!

Miss Hazuda

It's Been A While!!

It has been a while since I've posted on the blog.  I have been very busy with school work and getting ready for the holidays.  I hope that everyone had a great holiday.  I enjoyed spending time with my family and of course, reading.  I was a regular at the Public Library over Winter Break.

I've got another post coming, about an activity I did with First Grade showing the difference between fiction and nonfiction books.  That will be coming in the next few days.

Before we started Winter Break the Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade students got to use the iPod Touches.  We read The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and then we got to "make" cookies!  We used an app called Cookie Doodle.  The kids got to roll out their own dough, use and cookie cutter to cut it out, decorate it, and then "eat" it.  A fun time was had by all!

As I said before, I've been doing a lot of reading this break and will be posting some great titles that I have read.

Happy Reading!!

Miss Hazuda