Children love to cook!
Teaching TipsThey just do! I often used cooking as a teaching tool the classroom.
Once my students got the skills in place through our dramatic play (described earlier), we would do cooking activities in the classroom and invite others in to join us and taste our creations.
While cooking, we would again use our digital camera to document the steps in the process. We would print off these photos later and have the students put them in order (sequencing) and add captions to the photos (writing skills). We would then place these on colorful construction paper, laminated and bound together (again the spiral binders) to make a book that the students could revisit later. The final pages of the book would have the signs for the ingredients used as well as the result food made from the ingredients.
The books were sent home for parents to read, then placed back in the classroom library. The interesting thing is that the students would often choose these books as their books to read during quiet reading. They loved to see themselves in the books.
Signing Savvy would make this activities easier with the ability to create word lists and print signs.
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Savvy User KarenMonday, March 8, 2010
Such a great, great, great idea! I love your blog entries. They are always so helpful. I love this bood idea. One question...can you tell me where I can get good pictures of the signs to print out (I may be able to do it here, but just haven't figured it out...). My bigest problem is getting good pictures. My 2 year old is not hearing impaired; however she had some developmental delay (especially in language). We started signing to carry-over from her speech therapy sessions. It's amazing how much more quickly she picks up verbal vocabulary with signs as opposed to the words we don't sign. Thanks again for your great site and teaching tips.