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The Benefits pages Homeschool Cooking
Another idea is to set aside a many part of the day for literature discussion. You and your students can prepare a snack while discussing the book your kids are reading. It's a good way to get them used to discussing books.
If you've taken on the challenge of homeschooling your children, you probably already know the importance of finding interesting as well as unique ways to teach them new concepts and to give them a chance to practice old ones. But you may not have realized the answer is as close as your family kitchen. Below are many of the benefits your little students could get from learning via cooking.
Art and Cooking
One of the different nice things about the kitchen is that it's a great place for kids to show off their creativity. Children can use traditional food items, coloring pages as uncooked macaroni, to create artwork.
They can also make pancakes to look like a butterfly coloring page a mouse. Ask your kids to create a sugar cookie then decorate it so that it serves as a model of a human cell.
When your kids are reading stories about children in different lands, find recipes for the foods that kids coloring in those countries. You can create a whole unit study revolving around a foreign country, and cooking up the native food is a educational winner.
You can design experiments that show what happens to cookies if you leave out the baking soda or the flour. My daughter got first hand experience with this thing last weekend when we ran out of flour and I was lazy to run to the store. Pancake add is not a great substitute.
Literature and Cooking
Another fun way to use cooking in your homeschooling lessons is by incorporating it into your studies of literature. For many years, schools across the country have been serving green coloring page and ham to celebrate the Dr. Seuss classic. Your child could prepare the same thing with a little bit of food coloring.
Math and Cooking
Anyone who could cook can do coloring - it's that simple. So much of what you do in the kitchen involves doing math and that's why kids can learn through following simple recipes. Take, for example, the dreaded math topic of adding fractions. When kids must learn it by looking at numbers on a page, it can be difficult. However, if you decide you're going to make a double batch of chocolate chip cookies and all of those ingredients (most of which are written as fractions) need to be doubled, your son or daughter can find great motivation in learning how to add those fractions together. They wouldn't want to come up short on the chocolate chips, would they?
