22/02/2022
The children were so excited to make banana muffins and cake for Mr 2’s birthday this week. We used sugar free ingredients to make healthy choices for our growing bodies, including sugar free chocolate chips and sugar free maple syrup!
Cooking enhances children’s learning and development through:
- Developing mathematical skills: Counting ingredients and their amounts (for example, 2 eggs or 4 cups)
- Language and vocabulary: Learning new words, names of utensils and ingredients
- Scientific thinking : What happens when you add liquid ingredients to dry ingredients? Cooking allowed us to explore many fascinating interactions between different ingredients.
- Sensory experience: Cooking is such a good way to engage all of the children’s senses as they smell the ingredients, feel the texture, look at the colours etc.
- Communication skills: discussing what we are doing and making observations to each other. This allows for meaningful and intentional discussions with the children.
- Cooperation and sharing: negotiating roles and taking turns mixing, cracking one egg each, having one child pour the ingredient while the other mixes
- Coordination and fine motor skills: Pouring, scooping, measuring and mixing are all great ways for your children to work on their fine motor skills and are a fundamental part of cooking that encourages us to move with coordination and precision.
Today the children demonstrated a great sense of pride and accomplishment in their cooking - well done!
