{Kansas Cookies: A Yummy Lesson!}

        The Kindergarten & 1st grade class is studying map skills in social studies.  This week we made an edible map of Kansas.  The no-bake cookie dough was made of peanut butter, caro syrup, & powdered milk.  The students shaped the dough over a printed outline of Kansas that was covered in Saran Wrap.  Next, we added the 5 main rivers using blue icing.  Yellow M & M's marked our state capital, Topeka.  A blue M & M represented the Alma, McFarland, Paxico area.  Finally we added chocolate chips to symbolize the Flint Hills & Smokey Hills. (Although this time of year ALL the hills are smokey!)

        After eating out tasty maps, we wrote about this lesson in our journals.