SHAKTHI has discovered Kitchen to be a perfect environment for learning during this Pandemic.
Cooking is an essential life skill that all people should master. Learning how to cook can help promote social, mental and physical development in children. Involving children in the kitchen, from a young age, cultivates a habit that will have lifelong benefits.
A kitchen is a great place for parents to spend quality time with their children. It can be a place to talk about family traditions, through passed down family recipes, or it can simply be a place just to catch up with day to day life. It is also a great environment for siblings to cooperate and communicate, building stronger relationships.
The kitchen can be a place to nurture your child’s self-esteem, confidence and sense of self-worth. Teaching children to cook provides many opportunities to encourage and celebrate their work. Children feel a great sense of pride when they feel they’ve successfully prepared a dish for themselves or their family.
One of the best things one can do for their health is to cook at home. Research shows that people who eat home-cooked meals, on a regular basis, tend to be happier and healthier and consume less sugar and processed foods.
Stirring, measuring, rolling, squeezing and spreading are just a few of the kitchen tasks that allow young children to develop their fine motor and hand-eye coordination skills.
Children learn by touching, tasting, feeling, smelling, observing, reading and listening. This is why the kitchen is a perfect environment for learning – it hits a range of senses and a range of learning styles.
The learning opportunities in the kitchen are vast. Cooking offers a great opportunity to help with language development. Talking and describing what you are doing can expose young children to new words and terms.
The kitchen is like a mini Science Lab. Children can watch materials change colour, texture and form and they can make predictions and observations Kids can express their creativity through recipe development and food presentation.
Cooking with kids can be fun and enjoyable for both the children and adults. Your kids will get the joy of creating a dish and eating it, all while you create lasting memories that your children may treasure forever.
With all the benefits of cooking with kids, SHAKTHI SCHOOL brought the kids into the kitchen on Saturday 1st August 2020.
Wait and watch…….
