Cooking provides the perfect fun, hands-on opportunity for preschool children to develop their speech and language skills in the classroom.
This packet includes 4 (one per week) simple (minimal to no appliance use, limited ingredients), theme-based picture recipes that can be incorporated into your classroom snack time. In addition to a visual recipe page you will also get recipe vocabulary pictures and a take home recipe page. Check out my store for the FREE Cooking Up Communication Parent Letter.
The Back To School Theme includes recipes for:
-Graham cracker bus
-Friendship snack mix
-ABC fruit salad
-Cheese stick pencils
What language skills are addressed via cooking?
-Vocabulary: Food labels (nouns), descriptive words (how did it taste, smell, look, etc.), action words (pour, bake, stir, etc.)
-Sequencing: What happened first, then, last?
-Recall/re-telling: What did you do? What happened when?
-Following directions with basic concepts: Put it in, pour it out, etc.
-Answering questions: Who poured the milk? How did it taste?
-Social skills: Taking turns, requesting a turn, sharing materials.
Have fun and eat up!