lrk’s blog

If you’ve been in any of my classes, you probably know that I’m a bit of a foody and love ‘exploiting’ cooking as a way of teaching language and using literacies for authentic purposes.

After surfing the web and finding that ‘cooking’ and ‘kids’ tended to bring up sites that were designed for parents cooking with their children at home (rather than simple recipes you can do with groups of children in classrooms) and when I added ’school’ to the search, got a list of cooking schools!

A point raised in class this week was what we, as teachers, do with kids who have allergies? Well, if you check out Kids Health and scroll down, you’ll find recipes for children with a variety of conditions or allergies eg CF, diabetes, lactose intolerance and Celiac.

Many of the recipes are still more suitable for cooking at home, so, if you can’t find it easily … write it yourself! I’ll post recipes and the equipment needed for simple recipes that I’ve used in schools (or with my classes of teacher education students) and put up some associated teaching activities.

Your feedback, ideas, and your own recipes will be appreciated!