Special Words for Special Needs ~ Are You Teaching Cooking?
11:29 AM, Oct. 23, 2009
Do you know how to cook? Are you teaching or planning to teach your girls AND boys to cook? We should teach all our children to cook even if it is only simple foods. For some of our children the goal rather than cooking will be kitchen safety. Either way opening the kitchen to make it a part of homeschooling is a wonderful experience.
We homeschool just steps from the kitchen, so making meals has always been part of our learning. Confession time: I start homeschool most mornings still dishing out breakfast. Homeschooling has allowed meal preparation and cooking to be just another skill to learn in a working household.
My daughter has excelled at cooking. She is very creative and has found cooking to be a special talent to show off her skills. Alton Brown you better watch out! We have also encouraged her learning with cooking. She is dyslexic and is so excited about cooking she will power through a recipe just to try it! (Use your child's interest to push them in weak areas! )
This past summer we started the Little House of the Prairie series. With all the scrumptious foods and preserving Ma does in Little House in the Big Woods we were encouraged to preserve. We beefed up the garden and canned some peaches from a local orchard. I was pleasantly surprised when everyone turned out to help me can. The little ones cleaned the peaches. The older kids helped me get out ingredients and jars. It made for a wonderful family afternoon!
This has led us down many other culinary paths. Use cooking to do mini-unit studies or projects. Try some ideas like preserving food, figure out how much food a pioneer would need to live through a winter, research scurvy and rickets, teach fire safety in the kitchen, design a garden and imagine you are selling at a farmer's market. How much would you need to make a profit, grow, etc.?
May your cooking adventures be blessed!
Heather lives in West Virginia. She and her husband have been homeschooling their 5 children for 8 years. Due to a genetic disorder their children have multiple special needs. Living life to the fullest for the glory of God is their goal! Visit Heather's page at www.homeschoolblogger.com/gfcfmomofmany/ or at Special Needs Homeschooling.
This is something I need to get with! I have a rising teen who will need to know more about cooking before leaving my house!
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