Tasty Tuesday--Grains

Summer is here and our school schedule changes a little to accommodate the season.  As often as possible we will do school, but we will also add fun activities.  Each day of the week has a fun activity scheduled under theme: Make-it Monday, Tasty Tuesday, Wow Wednesday, Thoughtful Thursday, and Friend Friday.  Tasty Tuesday will include our annual cooking class activities. 

I found a set of books at the library called "All About _____".  There are 5 books for each of the major food groups.  I thought I could implement a little academic learning into our cooking class.  Today we learned about grains and each kid made their own loaf of bread following a recipe in the book.  We are also going to plant some wheat grass and go to Sprouts to check out some other grains (we were only familiar with wheat, rice, corn, barley, and oats). 

We grind grains and make bread often in our house using a mixer, so kneading by had was a new experience.  The recipe was in ounces, so we learned how to use a scale to measure.  The kids loved the idea of having their own loaf all to themselves.