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Breakfast Songs

10/6/2013

The Breakfast Song
To the tune "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean"

My breakfast is calling this morning,
My bacon is crisp in the pan,
My pancakes are doing a flip-flop,
I’m running as fast as I can.

Get up! Get up!
Oh, roll yourself out of the bed, the bed,
Get up! Get up!
Oh, don’t be an old sleepy head!

Milk and Cereal
(Lyrics for the video)
Milk and Cereal
Milk and Cereal
milk and cereal
Cereal and milk Milk and Cereal
Cereal, Cereal
Milk and Cereal
Cereal and Milk,
Cereal and Milk
Cereal and Milk
Cereal and Milk
Cereal and Milk
Cereal and Milk
Cereal and Milk
Cereal and Milk
Cereal and Milk
Cereal and Milk
Cereal and Milk
Cereal and Milk I dont want my Wheaties
Give 'em to the needy
Feeling kinda greedy I keep em for myself
I keep em for myself
I keep em for myself
I keep em for myself No Grapenuts for grandma
Mom likes Special K
You cant pinch an inch
You cant pinch an inch
You cant pinch an inch
You cant pinch an inch
You cant pinch an inch
You cant pinch an inch
You cant pinch an inch

They're magically
delicious
keep ya hands, off my Lucky Charms (pink
hearts, yellow moons,blue diamonds, green clovers)
A is for Apple
J is for Jack
You step on a crack
You'll break your mama's back
Rice Krispies
And Boo Berry
Ooh Boo Berry Milk and Cereal
Milk and Cereal
Milk and Cereal
Cereal and Milk Milk and Cereal
Milk and Cereal
Milk and Cereal
Cereal and Milk Milk and Cereal
Milk and Cereal
Milk and Cereal
Cereal and Milk Milk and Cereal
Milk and Cereal
Milk and Cereal
Cereal and Milk Milk and Stereo
Stereo Stereo
Milk and Cereal
Cereal and Milk
(Cheerio-eo-eo) In the morning
At your table
Milk and Cereal

Snap Crackle Pop
Snap Crackle Pop
Snap Crackle Pop
Snap Crackle Pop
Snap Crackle Pop
Snap Crackle Pop
Snap Crackle Pop Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs Trix are for kids!
Trix are for kids!
Trix are for kids!
Trix are for kids!
Trix are for kids!
Trix are for kids!
Trix are for kids!
Trix are for kids!
Trix are for kids! In the morning
At your table
(Milk and Cereal) No Grapenuts for Grandma
Grandma gets a Bran Muffin

Flipping Pancakes Game!

10/6/2013

Here is a fun game that requires practice and mastery, FLIPPING PANCAKES!

Read: Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola. This is a wordless picture book about an old woman trying to make pancakes for breakfast.

Materials needed:

A brown vinyl place mat (it has the right weight for flipping)
scissors
2 pancake flippers - spatula's (wide)

Directions: Cut out shapes of pancakes large enough to flip. Let the children have plenty of space to do this activity and prepare for giggles.

Breakfast Math

10/6/2013

Print pictures of breakfast foods off of ClipArt or the Internet. Cut and label each of the foods into different math fractions to represent 1, 1/2 , 1/3, and 1/4.

Encourage the children to put together the food items while talking about the different fractions.

Lets Make Breakfast!

10/6/2013

This is a teacher directed activity that helps children make sound nutritious choices for breakfast. You may be surprised to find out what the children are actually eating for breakfast at home.

Read: “Sadie’s Sukkah Breakfast" by Jamie S. Korngold, and Julie Fortenberry

Materials needed:

poster board or felt board
several pictures of food (breakfast foods and sugary treat foods)
large picture (poster) of the My Plate
tic tac
Velcro or double back tape (or felt)
paper gift bag

Instructions: Tell the children they are going to help you decide what to have for a healthy breakfast. Guide the children in making the appropriate choices. Select a food item and ask if it’s part of a healthy breakfast, or a treat for special occasion. If it is healthy food put it on the diagram according to the food category: fruit, grain, vegetable, dairy, protein. If it is a treat put in a paper gift bag.

NOTE: Some children have dietary restrictions, so provide alternative choices such as soy milk, etc.

Oatmeal Buffet

10/6/2013

Let the children create their own Oatmeal Breakfast!
Read: “Breakfast Around the World” by Gill Munton.
Read about the different types of breakfasts from around the world.

Instructions: Give each child a bowl of oatmeal. Set out the additions in small bowls with small spoons (baby spoons work great).

Let each child decide what they would like to add to their oatmeal and let them put in one spoonful of each item. Put liquid items in small pitchers for easy pouring. An alternative is to put the liquid and or servings of dry items into individual small paper drinking cups.

Materials needed:

bowls
oatmeal
raisins (and other dried fruits)
cinnamon
brown sugar
maple syrup
cut up fruit
milk
soy milk
seeds (sunflower, pumpkin),

DO NOT USE NUTS (walnuts, peanuts, pistachios etc.)

Paper Plate Omelets

10/6/2013

Provide yellow paint, paint brushes, paper plates, and cut outs or stickers of food items found in omelets.

Encourage the children to paint the paper plates yellow. Once the paper plates have dried, then have the children add their favorite food ingredients to their paper plate omelets.

Counting Bacon!

10/5/2013

Everyone comes running when they smell the delicious aroma of bacon sizzling in a pan.

Materials needed:

Brown construction paper
scissors
frying pan
tongs or spatula
plate
dice

Making Bacon: Cut brown construction paper into strips, make the sides wavy. Show the children how to fold the bacon strips like a fan. Stretch out the strips and you have bacon.

Directions: Have the children make some bacon strips with the brown construction paper. Put them in the frying pan. Roll the die and have the children pick up one piece of bacon at a time and place on the plate.

Make Your Own Egg Puzzle

10/5/2013

Breakfast Fruit Tree

10/5/2013

Prepare a healthy breakfast in a fun design. Give the children fruit and have then arrange their fruit in fun designs as well.

I Could Eat Breakfast: A Math Story

10/5/2013

This story gives the children an opportunity to practice their counting.

Continue all the way through the number ten allowing the children to fill in what they would eat. The final page would say "I am not hungry at all!" or "Now I am full!"

Here is our example of the front cover.

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