Noodle Letters and Cream Sauce

Preschool Cooking Activities: Noodle Letters and Cream Sauce: The letter N

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Today I thought it would be fun to make noodle letters and cream sauce.  First  – make your noodles.  I used angel hair pasta, but spaghetti or fettuccine may work better or just as well.  When I cooked my noodles, I added some olive oil to the water so that they did not stick together.

Noodle Letters and Cream Sauce. - Fun activity to help reinforce letters and Sight Words. More beginning reading resources can be found at https://www.sightandsoundreading.com///newsite #kindergarten #homeschool #strugglingreader

After cooking and draining the noodles, I rinsed a handful of them with cool water so that the children did not burn their hands.  I then gave each child a cutting board (or plate would work well), and we started making our letters!  My son started making the letter K, and I told my daughter to make a sight word.  They got right to work!

Noodle Letters and Cream Sauce. - Fun activity to help reinforce letters and Sight Words. More beginning reading resources can be found at https://www.sightandsoundreading.com///newsite #kindergarten #homeschool #strugglingreader

This was a great activity to help reinforce the letters for my 4 year old son.  It was also a great fine motor activity…picking up and stretching little noodles can be a little tricky.  My 8 year old daughter had fun by writing the sight word ‘and’.  If we had done this activity during the school year, I would have asked her to write her spelling words.

Noodle Letters and Cream Sauce. - Fun activity to help reinforce letters and Sight Words. More beginning reading resources can be found at https://www.sightandsoundreading.com///newsite #kindergarten #homeschool #strugglingreader

After making our noodle letters, we had a delicious meal with the remaining noodles we did not use …  below is our favorite recipe for cream sauce…  It is a must try!  Also, please note:  Do not double this recipe.  If you want to make more of it, you need to make 2 batches.

Ingredients:  

1 stick of butter

1 pint whipping cream  (1/2 a quart of whipping cream)

1 small can tomato paste

3 cloves garlic (chopped up)

1 small onion (chopped up)

salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

In a double broiler, cook all ingredients for 1.5 hours.  This recipe can be frozen or made the day before.

This recipe is a family favorite, and the directions I have are that simple.  Basically you chop up the onions and garlic and place in a pot with the butter.  Cook that until they brown a little.  Then add the whipping cream and the tomato paste and cook for 1.5 hours over a double broiler.  (Submerge your pot with all the ingredients in a pot of boiling water and leave boiling/cooking for 1.5 hours).

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Madreen Karle is a master first grade reading teacher with over 30 years of classroom experience. She taught reading in a special needs and English as a Second Language classroom. After retiring she wrote a reading program to help others learn how to teach reading. She is a trusted educator and author of 5 books to help teach children to read and write. In addition to her books, she is a mentor for 3 websites that give reading teacher tips (Mrs. Karle’s Sight and Sound ReadingMrs. Karle’s Reading Patch, and Mrs. Karle’s Handwriting Patch). Through her teaching she learned that confidence was the key to learning to read. A child who is not confident at reading does not like to read and struggles to read. Mrs. Karle created “sunshine moments” to help teach children how to grow their confidence and learn to read.
Meeghan Karle Mousaw (Madreen’s daughter) has her Master’s in Special Education. She has 8 years experience teaching children to read online. In addition, she developed a curriculum to teach children handwriting called The Handwriting Patch. With the Handwriting Patch learning is fun because children learn to draw and learn handwriting at the same time. In 2019 The Handwriting Patch curriculum became an amazon best seller the first year it was released, helping thousands of kids learn handwriting with a unique, fun method. She is mom to 6 kids, each with differently learning abilities and struggles.
The Reading Patch was established by the creators of Mrs. Karle’s Sight and Sound Reading. Together they have been featured on the NBC media outlets and Parents Magazine online. Over the last 8 years in their online platform, Madreen and Meeghan have worked tirelessly with teachers, homeschoolers and parents looking to help children learn to read to become a trusted authority in teaching children to read and advocating early literacy skills. They often partner with other educational experts to deliver the most current information to the Reading Patch community.

3 Comments

  1. Oh what fun! I’ll have to do this with my grandson. He loves spaghetti and is learning his letters too. Thanks for sharing with Creative Spark Link Party. Have a great week!
    Glenna @ My Paper Craze

    1. Yes! Great thought… it is always fun to play with your food to help reinforce a little learning.

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