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  • Balboa Elementary School
  • San Diego, CA
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Cooking can be fun for all children. For our children with special needs, cooking will be an opportunity to increase their communication, literacy, mathematical, motor-gross, and social skills. It will help build their daily living skills and foster independent skills. We are reading a variety of children’s books and integrating very simple recipes around the topics and themes. They get excited when we do cooking activities. We are limited to the cooking lessons that we do, because our classroom does not have many cooking supplies/tools. I used to work at a school site where I had a kitchen and we cooked weekly. The students enjoyed it and they looked forward to the cooking activities, and the staff enjoyed it too. One year when I taught upper grade summer school, I had some of the “coolest” kids on campus. We read a book and integrated a cooking lesson. All students helped. Parents also stated that their children took interest in helping at home with cooking. It is a great experience for all to be able to teach students to cook and see the excitement in their faces when they get to eat their own food product. We would like to start cooking a variety of recipes that would require using more than basic tools. I would also like to include a variety of recipes from their cultures for our students to try. Please help fund our Future Chef's request of cooking supplies. We need a griddle to cook up green eggs and ham, a small convention oven to bake chocolate chip cookies for a "mouse," and a crock pot to cook Strega Nona’s pasta, as well as other supplies because books provide our students with endless recipes! Our students would like your help to continue to cook with books!

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Cooking can be fun for all children. For our children with special needs, cooking will be an opportunity to increase their communication, literacy, mathematical, motor-gross, and social skills. It will help build their daily living skills and foster independent skills. We are reading a variety of children’s books and integrating very simple recipes around the topics and themes. They get excited when we do cooking activities. We are limited to the cooking lessons that we do, because our classroom does not have many cooking supplies/tools. I used to work at a school site where I had a kitchen and we cooked weekly. The students enjoyed it and they looked forward to the cooking activities, and the staff enjoyed it too. One year when I taught upper grade summer school, I had some of the “coolest” kids on campus. We read a book and integrated a cooking lesson. All students helped. Parents also stated that their children took interest in helping at home with cooking. It is a great experience for all to be able to teach students to cook and see the excitement in their faces when they get to eat their own food product. We would like to start cooking a variety of recipes that would require using more than basic tools. I would also like to include a variety of recipes from their cultures for our students to try. Please help fund our Future Chef's request of cooking supplies. We need a griddle to cook up green eggs and ham, a small convention oven to bake chocolate chip cookies for a "mouse," and a crock pot to cook Strega Nona’s pasta, as well as other supplies because books provide our students with endless recipes! Our students would like your help to continue to cook with books!

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