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- Nicholas B.
- Natilee B.
- Martin A.
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- Jaira K.
- Matthew T.
- Hiromi M.
- Mason L.
- Wendolyn J.
Storytime Announcements
starting for the new year on January 10th!
Storytime: 5:00 pm EST Thursdays
and 12 noon EST on Fridays
Cindy Cancel is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16465588656,7664927111# or +14086380968,7664927111#
Or Telephone: Dial: +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) or +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 766 492 7111
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Chef's Corner!
Ingredients:
Cookie Cups
§ 6 Tbsp butter, softened
§ 1/2 cup sugar
§ 1 egg
§ 1/4 tsp almond extract
§ 1/2 tsp vanilla
§ 1 1/4 cups flour
§ 1/2 tsp baking powder
§ 1/4 tsp salt
Filling
§ 1/2 cup whipping cream
§ 2 oz cream cheese, softened
§ 1/2 cup powdered sugar
§ 1/2 tsp vanilla
§ 1 cup strawberries, diced
Instructions:
- Cream butter and
sugar in a mixing bowl till creamy. Add egg, almond extract, and vanilla. Beat
well
- Whisk together
flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to creamed mixture and stir till well
combined.
- Roll into 1″ balls
and place in well greased mini muffin pans. Make an indentation in the dough
with your thumb or the back of a teaspoon.
- Bake at 350° for
about 10 minutes, or till lightly browned on the edges. Use a spoon to press
the dough down in the middle, forming a cup. Remove to cooling racks and cool
completely.
- For filling: Beat
whipping cream till stiff peaks form. Set aside.
- Beat cream cheese
till smooth. Beat in powdered sugar and vanilla. Add whipped cream, and beat
till well combined.
- Fill cups with
filling. I piped
it in, but you can just spoon it in if you prefer.
- Top with diced
strawberries. Serve immediately or chill.
Creating in the kitchen is so much fun! You can share your pictures of your oreo brownies on Griggs facebook page, or email them to me so that I can see your creation.
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"You Don't Say": Fine Motor Skills
According to this article in the NY Times, the hobbies that adults used to do as kids (handwriting, coloring, sewing, woodworking, etc.) has had an important impact on the development of fine motor skills. Because they used their hands to do projects and crafts, they developed fine motor skills that many children are not developing. Children today are spending less time doing projects and more time working on screens. Recently, medical schools have found a decline in the quality of fine motor control in their surgical residents. So parents, take a lesson from research and keep your kids hands and minds busy with lots of projects like cutting and pasting, knitting, whittling, and yes, cursive handwriting!
Craft/Science Project:
Check out this awesome science experiment!
- Bar of Ivory Soap
- Microwavable Dinner Plate
- Microwave
Directions:
- Before you begin, you can take a few minutes to let the children examine the bar of soap. Use descriptive words as you take turns holding it, feeling it and smelling it.
- Did you know that Ivory soap floats? It has a high air content! If you have an extra bar of ivory soap, you could drop the spare bar into a bowl of water to show the children how buoyant it is.
- Place your Ivory on a microwaveable plate
- Put your soap in the microwave.
- Run the microwave on high for 1-2 minutes. Today I set my microwave for 1:30. You can't really overcook your Ivory, but it will reach a point where it stops expanding.
- When the microwave stops, remove the soap and examine it.
- Caution! The plate and soap will be quite hot for a minute or so after being removed from the microwave. They cool down quickly but give the soap a few minutes before letting your children handle it.
- Let your children investigate how the soap has changed: what started out as a hard bar of soap is now a fluffy, crumbly powder.
- Visit this website for more scientific specifics: https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/soap-souffle/
- Once you're done you can recycle it! We grab a roll of toilet paper and some water and the hooligans whip up a clean mud. It's a moldable dough that smells wonderful and keeps the kids entertained for hours.
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