We are going to be focusing on one of our favorite books this week, The Little Red Hen. We have several different copies but the one by Paul Galdone is our favorite. In this version the Little Red Hen bakes a cake instead of bread which works out nicely since the Fairy is celebrating her fourth birthday this week. We will be making her birthday cake!

Week Six (Oct 6-11)

Book of the Week:

The Little Red Hen

Expansion Book:

Chicks and Chickens

Letter of the Week: F

F is for Fuchsia

We will be coloring the Fuchsia page from our Flower Fairies Alphabet Coloring Book and reading the accompanying story in the Flower Fairies Alphabet Book.

Craft for the Week: Story Boards

Bug told me he had a book he wanted to write this week. OK, sounds good to me. It sounds like an elaborate plot involving knights, wizards and an evil king. I will definitely let him run with that this week. For the Fairy girl, I will probably design her some story cards to color to go along with The Little Red Hen.

I also have an idea for a Big, Messy, Outside Art Project. I will post more about it… if it works out the way I’m imagining it.

Field Trip Idea:

At playgroup last week, the hostess had chickens. Pixie was especially excited. She loves all the farm birds… chickens, ducks, turkeys. We haven’t been to our local petting farm in a few weeks so we will probably head there. (Fur & Feathers Field Trip)

Baking Recipe for the Week: Pound Cake

This is a cake recipe that resembles the ingredient list in the book.

INGREDIENTS

2 1/2 cups sugar

1 cup butter softened

1 tsp vanilla

5 large eggs

3 cups flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup milk

DIRECTIONS

Heat oven to 350. Grease & flour bottom of 2 loaf pans or bundt cake pan.

Beat sugar, butter, vanilla and eggs in large bowl. Mix flour, baking powder and salt. Beat flour mixture into sugar mixture alternately with milk. Spread in pan.

Bake bundt about 1 hour – 1hr 20min (check with toothpick), loaf pans 50-60min.

Poem of the Month for October:

Harvest

Now all the farmers from far and wide

Have gathered their bounty of countryside:

Corn and barley from field and wold,

Honey from beehive and wool from the fold,

Fruit from the orchard all ripe, red and gold,

Log for the fire to keep out the cold.

by Dorothy Hancock

Additional Song for the Week

The Little Red Hen’s Song

This is the way I plant the seed,

Plant the seed,

Plant the seed,

This is the way I plant the seed, Early in the morning.

Repeat using the following verses:

…cut the wheat

…go to the mill

…mix the cake

…eat the cake

Kindergarten/Preschool Term One Overview: Harvest Time