Sunday’s School Prep

We’ll be working on a cooking unit this week.  The focus is on the science but there’s so much more to learn!

Science:  So much science to learn in the kitchen!  The hubbie and I love Alton Brown.  We love the show, we own all the books.  We love his scientific approach to food and cooking.  The books are great for kids because he uses lots of graphics, comics and visualizations to explain how it all works.  We’ll supplement those with some books I picked up from the library.  They’ve got some interesting experiments like mapping taste buds and experimenting with heat distribrution between cookware of different shapes, sizes and materials. 

Math: Officially we’ll be learning how to find the area of a triangle.  Unofficially we’ll be exploring fractions and decimals, using our arithmetic skills and reviewing measurment equivalents in our cooking studies.

Language Arts: We’ll be creating a spelling/vocabulary list of cooking terms, reading non-fiction books about recipies and cooking science, reading a biography of Mrs. Fields and reading food fiction like ”Freckle Juice” and “Stone Soup”. The girls will also be creating their own recipe book as our writing project for this unit.  They can determine how to categorize their recipies, type up recipies, write reviews of recipies we try, include a glossary of cooking terms and other notes to help them use their recipe book long after our unit is done.