by Retha Basham | 2 Dec 2018 | Cookies, Latest, Recipes
With our dipped sugar cookies, we mix our butter, flour and sugar together, thereby strengthening the finger muscles. (Fine motor skills) We roll the dough and cut out shapes , and promote hand-eye coordination and again fine motor skills. When baked, the decorating...
by Retha Basham | 3 May 2018 | Latest, Muffins, Recipes
With our lemon muffins the lesson is about lemons and the lemon tree. With this lesson, we take a small lemon tree with either blossoms or small lemons already growing on the tree. We teach the children the colours green, yellow, brown of the soil , as well as the...
by Retha Basham | 9 Apr 2018 | Cookies, Recipes
With this coconut cookies recipe the lesson is about coconut. The children look at and hold a coconut, and learn that the inside is white and the outside brown. They feel the rough texture and compare it with the smooth surface of the table they work on. We then shake...
by Retha Basham | 15 Jan 2018 | Cookies
In December we do the Christmas cookies recipe at all our schools. We use the gingerbread dough, as that is the most popular dough for Christmas cookies. Parents are, however, welcome to use any suitable cookie recipe that they want. We start our class by playing...
by Retha Basham | 28 Nov 2017 | April, Muffins, Recipes
With our pumpkin spice muffins we teach the children about pumpkins . We take a pumpkin plant to the class and show the children the plant with the pumpkin flower and the small pumpkins starting to grow. We also take different pumpkins such as a butternut, gem squash,...
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