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Stirring, measuring, rolling...OH MY!! Cooking with young children helps them develop necessary academic, cognitive, and motor skills to be successful in school and life. Cooking provides a wide variety of opportunities to learn and grow. 10 Benefits to Cooking with Kids: 1. Language Development: Labeling ingredients will increase children鈥檚 vocabulary, while following directions benefits receptive language. Predicting outcomes challenges more advanced students. 2. Fine Motor Development: Mixing the ingredients, rolling the dough, pressing the cookie cutters, pouring the batter, and flipping the pancakes develop skills the support children鈥檚 writing, drawing, and cutting. 3. Increases Math Ability: Measurement! All the measurement! Cups, teaspoons, tablespoons...addition, subtraction, fractions! 4. Improves Reading Skills: Our young learners will read numerals 鈥2 cups of flour鈥 or 鈥4 tablespoons of milk.鈥 5. Introduces Scientific Concepts: Classifying ingredients, predicting reactions, observing results of mixing, describing reactions are simple science concepts explored when cooking. 6. Teaches Focus and Attention: Children must follow the steps sequentially is essential to having the recipe tastes delicious! 7. Engaging in Life Skills: Independence is gained when children learn to make their own sandwich, heat items in the microwave, and pour their own milks. Safety lessons are taught when children experience a hot stove or a sharp knife. 8. Promotes Healthy Eating: Children will be challenged to try new and different foods while learning to make healthy food choices. 9. Boosts Confidence: Children experience a feeling of pride and excitement upon successfully completing a recipe! Independence will soar as they learn in the kitchen. 10. Classmate Bonding: Cooking is a fun, exciting, adventurous task that will allow our community to make life long memories together. Our goal is to cook with our classroom community once a week. We will select a piece of children鈥檚 literature and create a snack/meal connected to the story.
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