This week, we made pancakes from scratch and enjoyed eating them with real maple syrup. Making our pancakes required combining many familiar ingredients including flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, milk, and butter. There were lots of opportunities for everyone to help.
When children cook, they’re learning math, reading, and science. Following a recipe involves counting, measurement, and fractions (two teaspoons, three tablespoons, twenty stirs, whole, half, etc.) By mixing with the electric beater and flipping the pancakes, the children learned about kitchen safety and gained confidence from performing these “grown-up” tasks responsibly.
Perhaps most importantly, the children practiced important social skills while cooking. Working together and taking turns, waiting patiently for the pancakes to come off the griddle, and cleaning up at the end all provided important learning opportunities. The active, hands-on nature of cooking made it fun for the kids, and having a tangible and delicious product to share at the end made the effort worthwhile!
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After March Break, we would love to have volunteers to help us with Scientists in the School. We will have a scientist come into our classroom and have centres set up to learn about simple machines. If you would like to come in on March 23rd in the morning to help, please send us a email.
March 23rd is also the FAH Spaghetti Dinner! Please consider buying tickets for this fundraising event!