Cake Diaries

My daughter recently fell in love with specialty cake shows. She is amazed at how the Chef can take something as simple as sugar, butter, and flour, and turn it into a magnificent piece of art. (I think it's pretty cool too!) So she decided she wants to make cakes! And I said, "Let's do it!"

This is the first installment of our "Cake Diaries" about our adventures in cake making and decorating. This is an awesome project for homeschooling because cooking and baking are both so much fun, a great family activity, and can actually be useful in learning math, following instructions, working with others, and creativity. Also, keeping a cake diary helps with writing, reading, and story-telling. I am so excited to begin this journey with my daughter and I hope you enjoy it as well!

Cake Diaries by Savanna
Entry: 1
Cake: Agent P

"Today I made a yellow cake. We used 3 eggs, 1 cup of water, and 1/3 up of oil. I used 2 round cake pans and baked them for 23 minutes at 350*. My mom and my brother helped. We cut out shapes for eyes and a beak. We used blue, orange, white, and brown frosting. When we put it all together, it looked like Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb! We wrote 'Agent P' with green frosting. I think it looks nice. By: Savanna"

(Note: We used a composition notebook for her cake diary. I pre-wrote words and left blanks for her to fill in. As she gets older she can write these entries on her.)

 

By for Now,
Kristina

Ps. Agent P is pretty easy to make if you want to try it :)

I love oo!

No, that's not a typo. I love "oo!" We recently took a short break from our short vowel sounds and jumped into double o's for a bit. And it was fun! We focused on long oo words first and it opened a whole new level of reading for Savanna. We did an OO Word Search, made an OO Book together, OO Worksheets, OO Vowel Diagraphs, and did some craft activities to practice this new sound. Some of the Simple long oo words we used in our book were:
moon
noon
soon
boom
tool
pool
cool
fool
roof
roots
room
hoots
too
zoo
boo

Also some more complex long oo words included:
school
kangaroo
baboon
bamboo
broom
achoo
blooms
scoop
spoon
bathroom
goofy
choose
balloon
bedroom

The oo is a fun new sound that your child will love and is a nice little break from the monotony of short vowel phonics :) It will also give her a confidence boost to see that she CAN read compound words and multi-syllable words!

Here is Savanna (5yrs) reading her OO book!

Bye for now,
Kristina