Baking and Learning

The kids get ready to bake chocolate chip cookies

Baking cookies is a fun way to teach several important skills which I have listed here:

  • Character – Everyone wants to have a role so they learn how to cooperate, be patient, and take turns (social development). They also learn how to be careful (don’t touch the hot tray or oven), put things back, and clean up.
  • Fine motor – They learn how to scoop and pour.
  • Gross motor – My sons get their arms worked out when they mix the dough. I don’t use the mixer for Chocolate Chip Cookies (but it does taste better when you mix everything with a mixer)
Elijah measuring out the floor. It's okay to make a mess!
  • Math – Measuring using a cup or spoons (fractions). They also learn estimation because we don’t put in all the sugar or salt that the recipe calls for. You can also ask questions like, how many cookies do you think we will be able to make with this dough?
  • Language – We communicate, dialogue together and they need to listen to instructions. For my eldest, Elijah, he can read the instructions himself.
  • Science – Although we didn’t cover this the last time we baked, there is something to be learned about chemistry and how matter changes from solid to liquid to solid.
  • Home Economics – They are learning how to use and handle tools in the kitchen.
Edan mixes the eggs

And of course, the best part is there is a reward for all that work and effort – yummy dough (but don’t eat too much because of the raw eggs) and yummy cookies! I don’t have a picture to show because we ate them all!

3 thoughts on “Baking and Learning

  1. Welcome to the blogging world 🙂
    Blogs to learn good things from are oases in today’s cyberspace. Lea, I and Faith, herself, surely miss our homeschooling days. We do continue on, though, in taking part in her learning—much thanks to the training we had with TMA.
    God bless. Regards to the family and the TMA family.

  2. Hi Mr. Morada! I’m glad you and your family are well!
    Hi Michelle! Thanks for the encouragement. We had fun doing this together. But Edric doesn’t want me to encourage too much baking with the boys. I have to wait til Tiana gets a little bit older :o)

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