A Recipe is Brewing

Hey, after writing about the previous entry, I suddenly have an idea! Maybe blogger mommies can do it with your child(ren) too. You can make and compile a

_________'s (name of child) Recipe Book

Phoebe already knows how to make some simple food items, such as

Roti Pizza
Cheese Nachos
Cornflakes cups with Honey

I can also teach her other simple food, such as

Tuna Sandwich
Baked Rice with Mozzerella Cheese and Tuna

I can get her to write (with my assistance in spelling) a simple recipe for each food item. For those younger children who cannot spell yet, you can take a picture of each process, develop the pictures and get the child(ren) to sequence the event and paste the pictures into the recipe book. So it becomes a pictorial recipe book! After that, compile the recipes and Tadah! your child will have his/her very own, first receipt book. It's fun to make and it encourages the child to write. It's also good for memory development with the recalling of sequence.

Hmm... maybe I should get started with this idea as her March holiday project. Today is already Wednesday! Not many days left!! :(

Or, maybe I should gather a few more other children in our place and made do the food project with the other children and get Phoebe to teach them ? So she becomes, Phoebe the Little Chef! We can have 5 two-hour sessions in a week, making 5 different food items. After each learning/cooking experience, we can do a mini MLEA and get the children to do sequencing in the process of cooking, or simple fill in the blanks, or other simple written work, in the form of a receipe. Then by the end of the sessions, each child will have a simple compiled receipe book! Cool?

Event Planner
10.00 -10.20 a.m. : Welcoming and tuning-in with a simple action song
10.20 - 10.35 a.m. : Story-telling (related to food hopefully)
10.35 - 10.40 a.m. : Toilet break and washing hands
10.40 - 10.45 a.m. : Demonstration of making simple food
10.45 - 11.15 a.m. : Children hands-on session in cooking
11.15 - 11.30 a.m. : Eating and washing up of hands/face
11.30 - 11.40 a.m. : Recalling of events, teaching of mini MLEA
11.40 - 11.55 a.m. : Children hands on in doing follow-up activity (e.g. worksheet)
11.55 - 12 noon : Pack up and go home!

Children will keep their written recipe with me first and they will get to bring them back only after I've compiled for them, at the end of fifth session.

Anyone game for this? :) I'll probably only have space for 4 children :)