Summer Enrichment 1: Let's explore the kitchen!

Here are some ideas for learning and exploration in the kitchen

Morning connection videos:

Monday: Introduction to our kitchen theme for the week
Tuesday: We are In the kitchen this morning with our days of the week song, vocab "bring me" game, and a rhyming game
Wednesday: Happy Wednesday! Today we're reviewing days of the week in English and Spanish and months of the year with songs (along with our dynamics of "piano" and "forte"). Poem is "1, 2, Buckle my shoe" and today's language game is "I spy" for beginning sounds, adding in sound segmenting / finger spelling for our older students.
Thursday: Planning what utensils are needed for different foods, "Yellow is the Sun" number song,  the "zero game," and our version of "Jesus loves me"
Friday: We have two activity ideas to try this weekend.
Cooking with Kids - making pancakes!

Practical Life & Sensorial activities in the kitchen:

Smelling spices - introduce the names of a few herbs & spices you have - then see if you can tell what they are with eyes closed!

Cook or bake together! Teach skills of measuring, pouring, mixing, etc

Folding towels and washcloths

Whisking - add a few drops of dish soap to a bowl of water and let your child use  a whisk to stir them up (if you don’t have a whisk, fingers work well too!)

Washing Dishes

Language Skills: Phonemic Awareness, Writing, and Reading

• For language games (vocab or phonemic awareness), use themes of foods, fruits, vegetables, or kitchen tools
• Make a cornmeal or flour tray
• Writing (K/rising 1st graders) - make lists! grocery shopping lists, meal ideas, favorite foods, ingredients for a recipe....

Math in the kitchen

• Cooking or baking together is a great way to practice math skills - measuring, counting, adding, introducing fractions, etc.
• Setting the table - ask your child how many plates, spoons, etc. are needed for your family. If possible, let them set the table independently for a meal

More Montessori ideas for at home in the kitchen from Trillium Montessori 

Other Independent activity ideas

• Art: Coloring, cutting paper & gluing
• Building: with blocks, legos, cereal boxes, anything!
• Movement: toss and catch a sock ball, make an indoor obstacle course