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Mrs. Silvestry from Brooklyn, NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Us Learn Math and Science Through Cooking!

My students need 12 cooking items such as non-stick pots and pans, a food scale, DVDs that show the process and procedures of safe cooking, oven mitts, a food chopper, a can opener, and a child appropriate peeler.

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

I work with inquisitive, wonderful Pre-K children in a high need area. They love to learn through various, fun ways but they especially love to cook! Cooking teaches them various life skills such as following directions, taking turns, completing something from beginning to end, working as a team, and how to make a meal. It also teaches them academic skills such as reading, math, and science. Children learn to read (and sometimes write their own) recipes. Children learn math through identifying numbers in recipes and counting and measuring ingredients. Children learn science through the cause and effect they observe throughout the cooking process and the changes in matter (solid, liquid, gas) that occur by adding heat or cold to matter. I also teach children how to cook and eat healthy. Cooking is truly a great way for children to learn!

Although I try my best to incorporate cooking into our everyday learning, our supplies are very limited. Children love to cook but in order to learn through cooking you need various materials such as child appropriate cookbooks, pots and pans, scales, and utensils to cook with.

Our class needs books that will connect literature with cooking, cookbooks that help us see the mathematical and scientific connection in cooking, and books that teach us the importance of being healthy. We need non-stick pots and pans, a food scale to learn measurement, kid DVDs that show the process and procedures of safe cooking, and we need various materials to cook such as a oven mitts, a food chopper, a can opener, and a child appropriate peeler. These materials will give us the opportunity to learn math and science through cooking.

You can make it possible for my students to be smart, great chefs! Cooking truly is an important part of life and it is a fun way to learn important academic skills. Please help my students learn science and math through cooking by donating the much needed materials we are asking for! Thank you!

Mrs. Silvestry PS 9 Sarah Smith Garnet Grades PreK-2

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More than a third of 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

18 students impacted 2donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Science Experiments You Can Eat Vicki Cobb, David Cain (Illustrator), David Cain (Photographer) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Activity TV: Cooking Snacks Carrie Shankweiler • Barnes and Noble $9.89 1 $9.89
Activity TV: Cooking - Lunches and Desserts • Barnes and Noble $9.89 1 $9.89
Proctor-Silex® Power Opener™ Can Opener • Sax Family & Consumer Science, Inc. $14.29 1 $14.29
Apple Peeler, Corer, Slicer • Sax Family & Consumer Science, Inc. $21.19 1 $21.19
SILICONE OVEN MITT -- Impact Silicone Oven Mitt • Quill $5.39 2 $10.78
Holiday Storybook Stew: Cooking Through the Year with Books Kids Love Suzanne I. Barchers, Peter J. Rauen, Darcie Clark Frohardt (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $20.65 1 $20.65
The Math Chef • Sax Family & Consumer Science, Inc. $12.95 1 $12.95
The Healthy Body Cookbook • Sax Family & Consumer Science, Inc. $12.95 1 $12.95
Adjustable 5-Lb. Kitchen Scale • Sax Family & Consumer Science, Inc. $9.99 1 $9.99
Deluxe Quick Chop Food Chopper • Sax Family & Consumer Science, Inc. $9.59 1 $9.59
T-Falr Initiatives Non-Stick Cookware 10-Piece Set • Sax Family & Consumer Science, Inc. $89.99 1 $89.99

Materials cost

$228.45

Vendor shipping charges

 $22.85

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.43

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$264.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$57.95

Total project goal

$321.95

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $321.95

2 Donors

-$321.95

Donations toward project cost

-$264.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$57.95

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