Lets Talk Homeschool

When I first started homeschooling, I complicated everything, ok I still do on occasion, but I have learned that learning is simple. God gave our children an inquisitive nature. They want to explore and learn about the world and we can find ways to teach them in every day things

Things you can teach while baking cookies:

• Counting chocolate chips
• adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying chocolate chips. Lots of subtracting!
• how butter is made
• how wheat is ground into flour
• where baking soda comes from, please teach me too!
• what leavening agents do
• where sugar comes from
• where vanilla comes from
• the history of chocolate
• how salt is mined
• division as you make the dough balls
• measuring
• dividing fractions, you have to make half a batch after subtracting all those chocolate chips
• fahrenheit and celsius as you set the oven
• telling time as you set the timer
• evaporation as the steam leaves the cookies
• leverage as you pop them off the cookie sheet with a spautula
• history and heritage as you tell them about your grandma’s recipe
• God’s love because He gives us such wonderful things

The list goes on and on.