Summer Cooking Links for Kids

Just in time for the 4th of July and the summer months ahead....

Please see Company's Cooking Kids Cooking = Summer Fun

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AMC Montessori Summer Hands On Newsletter

Montessori Lesson Pick of the Week December 7, 2008

The holidays provide multiple opportunities to encourage your children to become interested in cooking. Fractions come alive as children measure out the ingredients needed to provide those yummy desserts, appetizers, salads and main dishes!! The following activities and lessons can be modified and integrated into Montessori learning.


Cooking With Math-Math Central
Cooking Traditions
Disabled Kids and Cooking: Celebrate Recipe Day and Teach More Than Math
Guide to Cooking With Kids
NNCC Cooking with Children: Kids in the Kitchen
Cooking - Practical Applications - Grades 4 - 6
Cooking Up Fractions Recipe
Lesson 4: Cooking with Fractions
Mesasurements in Cooking
Montessori Fall Hands-On Lessons
Montessori Winter Hands-On Lessons
Montessori Fall Newsletter
Healthy Nutritional Tips for the 21st Century Family
Home-grown "fast Food" for Busy Families
Thanksgiving Thoughts: Passing Along Some Positive Perspective with the Pumpkin Pie by Sara L. Ambarian

Montessori Picks of the Weeks June 8, 2008

SOME LNKS FOR FATHER'S DAY AND 4TH OF JULY

MAKE SOME GIFTS AND GIFT BOXES

Jaye, from Creative Care, will show you how to make a double frame. See http://www.amonco.org/summer5/montessori_summer5.pdf

Janet, from Chinaberry, will guide you step by step on how to make some beautiful gift boxes. See http://www.amonco.org/summer/montessori_summer1.pdf

If you experience any difficulties, you can also access most of the above links at http://www.amonco.org/montessori_summer_handson.html

Talented Marty Layne offers some delightful summer poems set to music. See Sea Change for details.

EASY SUMMER RECIPES

Montessorian Kathy O’Reilly, author of Cooking with Children Can Be Easy, will show you how to prepare a food unit study for children featuring the yummy Watermelon Blueberry Banana Split recipe.

Dale Gausman, owner of the North American Montessori Center, shows how children can plan, prepare, and execute a Spring or Summer Tea. Click here for details.

DIanne Knesek, Montessori teacher and owner of Conceptual Learning, shares a mouth watering Summer Fruit, Cheese, and Meat Kabobs recipe. Visit this link for complete information

Mary, from the Montessori materials company Hello Wood, offers the delicious recipe, Onion Pie, perfect for your holiday celebrations. See http://www.amonco.org/summer3/montessori_summer3.pdf

Planning a unit study about pirates? Karen , from Fun Felt, shares her three pirate snack ideas - Treasure Chests, Pirate Ships and Cannoballs, all of which, can be easily integrated into any pirate unit study. Click here to access the recipes.

Don’t forget to make some delicious potato salad for your family picnics. Use Bill’s recipe for Father’s Day and Fourth of July celebratios. See the MindWare entry to access the recipe.

Montessorian Cathie Perolman employs the Montessori practical life technique with her recipe scrumptuous gingerbread muffins recipes. Access this recipe by by clicking here

Larry, from Farm Country General Store, shares an equally delicious cinammon roll recipe. What a perfect addition to a homemade Father’s Day breakfast or just a lazy Saturday morning con su famlia (with your family.) See http://www.amonco.org/summer7/montessori_summer7.pdf

Montessori Links of the Week for March 31st

The following articles and unit studies are now available. You may access them directly
by visiting the following links:

Home-grown "Fast Food" for Busy Families - (Montessori Gardening and Cooking
Practical Life Applications)

Homeschooling? Feeling stressed out? Let me offer a few suggestions....

AMC Montessori Holiday Grammar Bingo

The Human Respiratory System - Links for a Montessori Unit Study

Medical Terminology - Links for a Montessori Unit Study

Starting Your Own Montessori Community Service Projects

The Art and Fun of Kite Flying - Montessori Spring and Summer Fun
(Updated)

Additional free Montessori unit studies, Montessori lesson plans and Montessori
resources are available at http://www.amonco.org

Heidi Spietz
American Montessori Consulting
Celebrating 20 Years of Service to School and Home Educators
http://www.amonco.org

Montessori Lesson Picks of the Week for March 24, 2008

Fresh off the Cobb (Corn Casserole for your Freezer)

Yummy Peanut Butter Fudge

Creamy Lemon Pie

Sour Cream Fudge

Home-grown "Fast Food" for Busy Families by Sara Ambarian

Talented Sara Ambarian is someone who can take something like home-grown sprouts and make mouth watering mahi mahi filets. In the article, Home-grown “Fast Food” for Busy Families, Sara shares how busy families can easily and conveniently add home grown sprouts to their food repertoire. Sara shares how the family can become interested in growing different varieties, and how these sprouts add flavor and texture to various salads, sandwiches, etc.

Sara embraces the philosophy of providing integrated lessons in gardening and cooking for children and teens, to help them become more environmentally aware, nutritionally informed and consumer savvy.

Sara mentions experiments you can easily set up at home, giving you the opportunity to determine if sprouting is something your family might enjoy. Sara also provides helpful tips about what to look for when buying sprouting seeds, and then walks you through the planting and nurturing process. A scrumptious recipe with an illustrative picture is included. If the picture doesn’t motivate you to try sprouting, I don’t know what will!!

To discover how sprouting can be easily implemented in Montessori practical life cooking and gardening lesson presentations, Montessori teachers will want to read this article as well.

To read this article, please visit
http://www.amonco.org . Look under Notable and Notable and click on the Home-grown “Fast Food for Busy Families” hyperlink. To learn more about Sara Ambarian please visit
http://home.netcom.com/~symbios/wedding.html

Enjoy! :)

Heidi

Lessons Picks of the Week for December 3, 2007

The holidays provide multiple opportunities to encourage your children to become interested in cooking.
Fractions come alive as children measure out the ingredients needed to provide those yummy desserts,
appetizers, salads and main dishes!! The following activities and lessons can be modified and integrated
into Montessori learning.

Cooking With Math-Math Central
Cooking Traditions
Disabled Kids and Cooking: Celebrate Recipe Day and Teach More Than Math
Guide to Cooking With Kids
NNCC Cooking with Children: Kids in the Kitchen
Cooking - Practical Applications - Grades 4 - 6
Cooking Up Fractions Recipe
Lesson 4: Cooking with Fractions
Mesasurements in Cooking
Montessori Fall Hands-On Lessons
Montessori Winter Hands-On Lessons