Bake Chocolate Cookies Day

* 3/4 cup butter flavored shortening
* 1 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
* 2 tbsp milk
* 1 tbsp vanilla
* 1 egg
* 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
* 1 tsp salt
* 3/4 tsp baking soda
* 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips


Directions:
Heat oven to 375. Combine butter flavored shortening, brown sugar, milk, and vanilla in large bowl. Beat with mixer at medium speed until well blended. Beat egg into creamed mixture.

Combine flour, salt, and baking soda. Mix into creamed mixture just until blended. Stir in chocolate chips and pecan pieces.

Drop rounded tablespoonfuls of dough 3 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheet. Bake one baking sheet at a time for 8 to 10 minutes for chewy cookies, or 11 to 3 minutes for crisp cookies.

* Gift Ideas
Use these treats as gifts! Using plastic wrap, place 2-3 treats in the center and gather the ends at the top. Finish it by securing each bundle with a ribbon. Line a cookie tin with tissue paper, flare out the edges for a decorative look. Then carefully place the goodies into the cookie tins, fold the edges of the tissue paper carefully over the top of the treats and secure with cookie tin lid. Adorn the top with a colorful bow.

Dance Like a Chicken Day

1. Anyone who's not chicken, stand in a circle facing each other.
2. When the music starts, hold your hands out in front of you and open and close them like a chicken beak four times.
3. Put your thumbs in your armpits and flap your wings four times.
4. Place your arms and hands like the tail feathers of a chicken and wiggle down to the floor four times.
5. Clap four times.
6. Repeat steps 1-5 four times.
7. After the fourth time take the hands of the people on either side of you and everyone move in a circle.
8. When you get dizzy, switch directions.
9. Repeat until the end of the music or until you fall on the floor.

Flower Month

In conjunction with other activities, children will explore flowers.

Activity ONE -
Children will create "Muffin Flowers".
Using:
# Construction paper
# Muffin tray cup liners
# Glue
# Markers, crayons or paint
Children draw or paint flower stems and leaves on their paper. Students then glue muffin cups in the center of the flower for a 3-D effect.



Activity TWO -
Creating Tissue paper carnations -
1. First you take about 5 to 6 pieces of tissue paper squares, depending on the thickness of your desired depth of the flower.
2. Stack all sheets together one on top of the other.
3. Begin folding your paper back and forth like an accordion or a fan.
4. When complete secure in the middle with a rubber band or twist tie.
5. Now its time to peel up each sheet one at a time. Work from side to side, left to right.
6. Bring all sheets to the middle until your done.
7. If you want the flowers smaller cut the sheets down by length.
8. To make different shapes clip off the tips, only a trim. (triangle, points, wavy, square, etc..)

It's Duckling Month

Children will understand the mother-child relationship transcends the human "world", and be able to pair animal mothers and babies.

Holidays of May

1. Tuba Day /Lei Day /Mother Goose Day /Space Day
2. Ukulele Day /Laughter Day /Bread Pudding Week /Be Kind to Animals
3. World Press Day
4. Teacher Day/ Chickens Day
5. Cartoonist Day/Cinco de Mayo /Grump-out Day
6. No Housework Day /No Diet Day / Nurses Day
7. No Pants Day
8. No Socks Day /Mini Golf Day /Train Day
9. Mother’s Day /Police Week /Reading is Fun Week
10. Windmill Day
11. 
    
12. Nutty Fudge Day
13. Frog Jumping Day
14. Chicken Dance Day
15. Family Day
    
16. Sea Monkey Day / Backyard-games Week
17. Relative’s Day
18. 
    
19. 
    
20. Weights & Measures Day
21. Bike Day
22. Maritime Day
23. Taffy Day /Turtle Day /Safe boating Week
24. Brother’s Day/Morse Code Day
25. Cookie Monster’s Day /Geek Day
26. Missing Children’s Day
27. 
    
28. 
    
29. Peacekeeper’s Day
30. 
    
31. Memorial Day

• Clean Air Month
• Family Wellness Month
• Vision Month
• Barbeque Month
  
• Egg Month
• Personal History month
• Tennis Month
  

Holidays of April

• Child Abuse Prevention Month
• Frog month
• Jazz Appreciation Month
• Garden Month
• Kite Month
• Poetry Month
• Soy Month

1. Holy Thursday/All Fool’s Day /Fun Day /Poetry Day
2. Good Friday /Children’s Book Day
3. Pony Express Day
4. Easter /Golden Rule Week /Ocean Week
5. 
   
6. 
   
7. Day of Hope
8. D.A.R.E. Day
9. 
   
10. Sibling Day
11. Barbershop Quartet Day /Karaoke Week
12. Licorice Day
13. Thomas Jefferson Day
14. Lawyer’s Day
15. 
    
16. High Five Day/ Pajama Day
17. Blah Day
18. Trivia Day /National Park Week/Coin week
19. 
    
20. 
    
21. Kindergarten Day
22. Earth Day
23. Jelly Bean Day
24. Talk Like Shakespeare Day
25. Arbor Day/Astronomy Day /Smell Day
26. Pie week /Playground safety week
27. Morse Code Day
28. 
    
29. Dance Day
30. Honesty Day

Hoildays of March

1. Pig Day
2. Namesake Day
3. Read Across America Day
4. National Anthem Day /Grammar Day
5. Day of Prayer
6. Newspaper Week
7. 
   
8. 
   
9. Barbie Day
   
10. Mario Day
11. Dream Day / Johnny Appleseed
12. Girl Scout Day
13. Donald Duck Day/Ear Muffs Day
14. Potato Chip Day /Wildlife Week
15. Napping Day
16. Truth Day
17. Saint Patrick’s Day
18. Incredible kid Day
19. 
    
20. Jump Day /Spring Equinox
21. End to Discrimination Day /Folk Tales/Fables Week
22. Forever Young Day /Goof-Off Day
23. Puppy Day
    
24. Chocolate-covered-raisins Day
25. Pecan Day
26. 
    
27. Country Music Day
28. Palm Sunday
29. 
    
30. Doctor Day
    

• Red Cross Month
• Music Education Month
• Craft Month
• Nutrition Month
• Vision Month