Who Ate All the Cookie Dough?

1. Narrative Skills

• You can help your child with narrative skills by asking them to recount the story. Say, “Was it the lion that ate the cookie dough?”; then go through the rest of the animals: zebra, llama, cheetah, hippo, monkey. Then say, “Guess, who ate the cookie dough?”--baby kangaroo.

2. Print Awareness

• Take your child shopping at the grocery for cookie dough. Show them the words “cookie dough” on the package. After returning home, bake the cookies together. Cut the words cookie dough from the package and place on refrigerator.

3. Letter Knowledge

• Draw the lower case “c” on an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper. Have your child run their finger over the letter several times; hand them some cookie dough, invite them to make the letter “c” out of the dough; bake.

4. Vocabulary

• Ask your child, “How do you think mommy kangaroo felt when she learned that baby kangaroo ate all the cookie dough”?

5. Print Motivation

• Make book-sharing time a special time for closeness between you and your child. Hold your child on your lap while they watch the video.

6. Phonological Awareness

• Teach them the following part to the book: “Eeny, meeny, miney (emphasize how they rhyme), moe! Who ate all the cookie dough?" Say, “Do moe and dough rhyme?”