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Start making learning fun for your kiddos! Here’s how… Bake-ucation By Sobia Javed
Baking a cake can easily be turned into a fantastic opportunity to allow your child to learn. For most children, if you said; “Hey, let’s learn fractions!” they would turn away in horror. What if,
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Begin by looking up a recipe on the Internet.
Create a shopping list of ingredients and ask your child to write it out.
Take your child shopping and follow their lead in sourcing the ingredients. They may struggle to find some things, but encourage them to ask a staff member for assistance if needed.
• Computing/Internet usage
• Handwriting practice
• Reading (aisle signs)
STEP LEARNING POINT
though, you said; “Hey, let’s bake a cake.” Would the response be the same? Highly unlikely, but unbeknownst to your child, he WILL learn about fractions during the cake making process!
(You’ve already started the learning aspect of it, and you’re only on step one!)
• Social skills (approaching a staff member and making a query) • Practice of good manners (saying please/thank you)
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