I'll tell good-bye to my this year's grouping of footling 1st graders this coming week. {Sniff, sniff.} Have you lot got kids or grand-kids out of schoolhouse for the summer? If your child's instructor is at all similar me, she or he in all likelihood said something nearly keeping your kid reading, writing, as well as doing a footling math over the summer, right? {And if she or he didn't ... consider this to hold upwards me maxim it for them now!}
Well, did you lot know you lot tin proceed your kid practicing reading, writing, as well as math through but baking as well as cooking amongst them? That's right! ...
You tin receive got fun inwards the kitchen amongst your kids this summertime as well as proceed them 'fresh' amongst their studies! How cool is that? And slow bar cookie as well as no-bake recipes render the perfect opportunities.
How, you lot ask?
Well let's accept a expect at a few recipes to see.
Take these classic 7-Layer Cookies for reading, for event ...
Reading recipes gives smashing exercise inwards … good … but reading. But it’s likewise rich amongst reading comprehension practice, sequencing, as well as vocabulary. When cooking, your kid tin read the recipe, as well as summarize it inwards his or her ain words. Vocabulary tin hold upwards broadened past times discussing the pregnant of unfamiliar words, as well as pregnant tin hold upwards reinforced through genuinely doing or experiencing those words piece helping laid the recipe. Learning past times doing is extremely powerful!
So, amongst these delicious 7-Layer Cookies, your kid could:
So, amongst these delicious 7-Layer Cookies, your kid could:
- Verbally summarize the steps to brand these
- Write a listing or period of time map of the social club the ingredients are layered inwards the pan (yes, sequencing is a reading skill!)
- Look for letters or sounds or sight words appropriate for his/her degree level
- Work on vocabulary with, perhaps, the words ‘condensed,’ ‘chopped,’ ‘layer,’ ‘sprinkle,’ ‘remaining,’ ‘previous,’ or whatsoever other unfamiliar word
- Practice comprehension strategies past times thinking of questions he/she has nearly the recipe, or predicting what volition hap at each step
But what nearly writing? How would that operate amongst baking? Let’s allow these ooey-gooey Caramel-Walnut Squares aid us out.
Now, writing exercise doesn’t ever receive got to involve a pencil. The deed of coming upwards amongst content is an extremely of import business office of the writing procedure … as well as that content tin but hold upwards spoken aloud. In my classroom, nosotros telephone phone this ‘writing amongst our mouths.’ You know, ‘cause sometimes that ol’ pencil exactly gets inwards the way! So summertime writing exercise could hold upwards both a footling ‘writing amongst the mouth’ as well as a footling writing amongst a pencil, if you’d like.
- ‘Write amongst his/her mouth’ to depict the oatmeal layer, the caramel layer, and/or the finished product. Use all v senses … touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing … to come upwards up amongst smashing descriptive words as well as sentences.
- Write a summary, inwards his/her ain words, of how to brand them
- Write his/her see nearly the squares … consummate amongst back upwards for that opinion!
- Create a fiction story involving the squares ... like, perchance where the caramel layer goes crazy as well as flows out of the oven similar a river all over the kitchen. Get creative! {making certain the story includes a beginning, middle, as well as end, of course!}
- Think nearly a alter he/she would similar to brand to the squares as well as write his/her ain novel recipe. Maybe you’ll fifty-fifty allow it hold upwards tried out!
Ahhhh, as well as math. Baking as well as cooking are jam-packed amongst math learning opportunities … similar measuring, as well as counting, as well as patterning, as well as adding, as well as fractions … the listing goes on as well as on!
No-Bake Strawberry Ice Box Cake as well as No-Bake Chocolate Eclair Dessert are going to aid us out amongst math. {I didn’t hollo back you’d mind.}
For math exercise with No-Bake Strawberry Ice Box Cake, your kid could:
- Do a geometry shape puzzle. You’re in all likelihood thinking … what??? Well, this recipe naturally is a geometry shape puzzle! Yes … figuring out how to jibe the graham crackers for each graham cracker layer into the pan, breaking about every bit needed, is a shape puzzle. Cool, huh?
- Create patterns amongst the strawberries every bit he/she layers inwards the fruit
- Calculate the amount of ingredients needed to brand ½ the recipe … or to double it. Or, to brand any unlike size, for that matter.
- Estimate how many strawberry slices volition effect from a handful of the strawberries to hold upwards used. Then, count the slices to encounter how unopen the guess was.
- Figure out what fourth dimension the cake volition hold upwards ready, given the overnight ... let's tell 10 or 12 hr ... refrigerating fourth dimension
While helping brand this recipe, your kid could:
- Do the same type of geometry shape puzzle amongst the graham cracker layers every bit amongst the No-Bake Strawberry Ice Box Cake
- Continue the AB designing of the graham cracker as well as pudding layers to figure out what would come upwards 6th, or 10th, or 13th (or whatsoever other position) if you lot ... hypothetically, of class ... kept edifice that many layers of this delicious dessert
- Further railroad train his/her conceptual agreement of 1/2 past times dividing the pudding mixture into ii bowls to encounter the halves used for each pudding layer
- Compare the relative size of the unlike measures used inwards the recipe ... teaspoon, 1/4 cup, 1/3 cup, 1/2 cup, 1 loving cup ... lay out the measurement instruments as well as receive got your kid house them inwards social club from smallest to largest, or largest to smallest
- Conduct a enquiry survey/data collection projection nearly the finally production ... He/she could inquire each household unit of measurement fellow member whether or non they liked the dessert, come upwards up amongst a means to collect the information (tally marks, etc), as well as thus come upwards up amongst a means to graph or correspond the information (bar graph, motion-picture exhibit graph, t-chart ... the possibilities are almost endless!)
- Now, this is scientific discipline instead of math, but I've got to throw it inwards ... working amongst the butter inwards the topping of this recipe lends itself good to a tidings of solids as well as liquids ... I'm exactly sayin' ... accept every learning chance you lot can!
I could acquire on as well as on nearly learning activities piece baking as well as cooking ... they're but sooooo rich amongst learning opportunities. So, line out a few of your favorite recipes this summer, receive got fun inwards the kitchen, as well as proceed your child's heed practicing reading, writing, as well as math at the same time!
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Other smashing recipes to brand amongst children:
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