Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading ECN Radio Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Subscribe today to our bi-weekly newsletter!   ACTIVITY Family Recipes By Rae Pica This is a collaborative effort between home and school. Students practice reading and writing. Cooking activities provide opportunities for measuring, mixing, and following instructions. Curriculum Area Literacy, Math Before You Start Send home a note asking parents to send back a favorite family recipe or the recipe for something their child really likes to eat. Have a few extra recipes on hand, just in case a family forgets. Let's Begin 1. Have each student tell the name of his recipe. 2. Students should copy their recipe from home onto paper. Let them add illustrations as well. 3. Create a cover that reads “Our Family Recipes” and bind together. 4. Let the children choose a few recipes to make together as a group. Or have a “family recipe day” and invite students to bring in samples of favorite foods. Furthermore You may want to make copies of the pages and bind together so that each student can take one home.   Note for parents Paper and markers Extra recipes Blank Journal Notebooks - Set of 12 Articles and activities listed on this website may be printed for single use. No article or activity may be duplicated or distributed in any form, in whole or in part, without permission from the publisher, Excelligence Learning Corporation. Contact Permissions Department.

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