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Make these cookies in conjunction with your study of the phases of the moon...

 

Ingredients:

• 1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter

• 1/2 cup sugar

• 1 egg yolk

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1/4 cup ground blanched almonds (or use pecans)

• 1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour

• Confectioners' sugar

Preparation:

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl or stand mixer, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg yolk and vanilla, mixing well. Add almonds and flour, thoroughly incorporating.
   
   

2. Using walnut-size pieces of dough, shape into a crescent and place on ungreased baking sheets. Bake 20 minutes or until slightly brown on the edges.
   
   

3. While still hot, roll in confectioners' sugar. Re-roll in confectioners sugar when cool and store tightly covered

 

Oreo Moon Phases                                           Submitted by: Umm Nassim

Materials:
8 Oreo® cookies (4 for younger children)
Paper towel
A plastic spoon and/or a plastic knife

Halve and scrape Oreo® cookies to illustrate Moon phases. Then arrange cookies on the poster in linear fashion beginning with the New Moon and ending with the Waning Crescent Moon. We, recommend that first children simply learn to correctly match the names with the appearances of each phase. For children younger than 8, you may want to model only 4 Moon phases, i.e. New Moon (completely dark), Crescent Moon, first Quarter (or Half) Moon, and Full Moon. Older children should be able to model all 8 phases, as shown below:

1	2	3
New Moon Completely (or almost completely) dark.	Waxing Crescent A small sliver of light on the right.	First Quarter (or Half) Moon The right half of the Moon is light.
4	5	6
Waxing Gibbous Three quarters of the right side of the Moon is light.	Full Moon The entire Moon is bright.	Waning Gibbous Three quarters of the left side of the Moon is light.
7	8	Modified from Paper Plate Education Copyright ©2006 Chuck Bueter
Third Quarter (also Half) Moon The left half of the Moon is now light.	Waning Crescent A small sliver of light now appears on the left side.

 

 

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