Cooking with lemons

Let's  cook with lemons.

The first thing we will make is lemonade.  We will need to have quite a few lemons, sugar, water and a lot of muscle power to squeeze the juice out of the lemons.

 

Now that the lemonade is made, let's make some sweet lemony treats.

                                        

                                                          Easy Lemon Cookies:

                                            "the basic cake mix cookie with a twist"

Using, 1 package lemon cake mix, 2 eggs, 1/3 cup vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon lemon extract, and 1/3 cup confectioners' sugar

 

Preheat oven to 375, pour cake mix into a large bowl.  stir eggs, oil and lemon extract until blended.  Drop teaspoonfuls of dough into a bowl of confectioners' sugar.  Roll them around until they're covered.  Put them on an ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake for 6-9 minutes. 

 Our next sweet treat:

 

                                                                 Lemon Square Bars

                                                  

2 cups flour                                                         2 cups sugar

1 cup confectioners' sugar                                  1 teaspoon baking powder

1 cup butter, melted                                            1/4 cup flour

                                                                           5/6 cup lemon juice

 

preheat oven to 350, grease a 9x13 inch pan

 

In a bowl stir together 2 cups flour and confectioner's sugar.  Blend in melted butter.  Press into the

bottom of the pan.  The Robins used an individual cupcake pan.  Bake for 15 minutes.  In a bowl, beat eggs, combining sugar, baking powder and 1/4 cup of flour (there should be no flour lump).  Stir in the lemon juice, pour this into your preferred baking pan or cupcake pan.  Bake for 30 minutes.

Oh Ya, let's not forget the most important thing about

cooking with lemons.

A Lemon Smile!

Have fun cooking with lemons and let the Robins know if you find other ways to use lemons.
               Miss Julie and Miss Valerie

 

Iguanas - July 30th - August 3rd

Hello again! What an exciting week in the Iguanas' class....take a look!

Theme: Curious George & The Olympics

Curious George makes pancakes and so do the Iguanas! Here we are measuring, pouring, and mixing...

We also made homemade sand. This stuff has been a huge hit and its super easy to make. Here's the recipe...

Homemade Sand

4 cups used, dried coffee grounds 

(Ask your local Starbucks)

2 cups cornmeal

1 cup flour

1/2 cup salt

What are sacky wacks? They're a lot like stress balls made made out of play dough filled balloons. First everyone helped make a new batch of playdough...

Next, we filled our balloons as full as possible with the play dough.

Then we decorated them and spent the morning stretching and squishing them...

Inflatable horse races were so much fun!

Using cardboard, foil, and ribbon, we made our own Olympic medals...

Olympic flags & torches...

Olympic color fingerpainting...

Our week ended with the Kidspace Olympics, which consisted of many different events including track, cycling, basketball, and gymnastics.

Thanks for reading!
Until next week,
Miss Crystal, Miss Julie, & Miss Rachel

Iguanas - July 23rd - 27th

Here are some highlights from this week in the Iguanas' class...

Animal Antics

We read the book "Swimmy," in which a group of small fish swim together as one big fish. After, we made swimmy collages.

Go fish!

Rainbow fish...

 Rainbow water orbs offer a unique sensory experience...

Animals frozen in ice cubes!? The Iguanas tried many different ways to free the creatures...

This week we read many of Mo Willems books about that wacky pigeon, including "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus," "Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late," & "The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog." These books are so much fun to read, and we knew we had to find an art project just as fun....handprint pigeons! Some of the Iguanas enjoyed making these so much that they made 4 or 5!

Also, this week we were lucky enough to attend a rockin performance by The Alphabeticians. Check the flyers in the sign out book to find out  when & where they're playing next. They were tons of fun!

Thanks for reading! Until next week,
Miss Crystal, Miss Julie, & Miss Rachel

Iguanas - July 16th - 20th

This week was all about creativity & imagination! 

We read the book, "It's Not a Box" and spent the whole week using our imaginations to turn ordinary cardboard boxes into houses, forts, cars, rocket ships, and more. Never underestimate the power of a young child with a box, some tape, a pair of scissors and some markers!

We even made some wooden boxes to take home! The Iguanas really enjoyed getting to hammer the nails on their own.

All this talk of imagination and creativity led us to discuss wacky inventions. We put a twist on one of the inventions we found and created one of our very own: Toothbrush Popsicles!

We also looked at some very useful inventions. We brought in a variety of household gadgets and had the kids guess what they might be used for. 

Of course, the best part was getting to try them after! We used a cheese grater to grate soap and then added some water and used an egg beater to whip the soap into bubbles! What kinds of gadgets could your Iguana explore at home?

Experimenting with magnets and water....

BJ The Clown....what a blast!

One of the most exciting things this week was our first trip to the library! The Iguanas did such a great job walking there!

The librarian was very impressed by their great circle manners.

After story time, the Iguanas got to explore the children's section and do some reading. We can't wait for our next visit!

Thanks for reading! Until next time,

Miss Crystal, Miss Julie & Miss Rachel