Many Thanks

The Etzim children love tracing their hands (along with other body parts) and all this practice has paid off!  Today we traced our hands and made our Thanksgiving turkeys.  We are thankful for many things, including extended family members, baby siblings, and lots of various foods!  Wishing you all a joyful Thanksgiving!  

 

 

What Do Children Gain from Cooking?

What Do Children Gain from Cooking?

• A blossoming of creativity and a sense of aesthetics
• Early math skills (counting, measuring, sequencing of events, an understanding of time)
• Confidence and self-esteem; a feeling of accomplishment
• Prereading and beginning reading skills (numeral, symbol, and word recognition; left to right cueing)
• Small motor skills; hand-eye coordination
• Strength and endurance (stirring the batter or spreading cream cheese can be hard work if you are only three feet tall)
• Science skills (chemistry, temperature, cause and effect)
• Patience and self-control (waiting for that pizza to come out of the oven is a challenge!)
• Language skills (observing, describing, predicting outcomes)
• Ability to follow directions
• A sense of teamwork
• Food literacy (an openness to trying new foods; familiarity with fruits, vegetables, other ingredients, techniques, processes- plus a new awareness and appreciation about the foods we eat, what they are, where they come from...etc.)
• Increased interest and curiosity about all of the above!