lyeping2607

Hi everyone,

I'm supposed to organise a cookery class for little unschoolers age 2
onwards, and am at lost as to what would be a good recipe to use. As
we're currently doing activities relating to Christopher Columbus, I'm
appealing for suggestions as to what would be a good recipe to
represent his' travels. I know Columbus landed in America when he was
expecting to China, and that he found lush vegetation and maize. What
can we cook that easy, can be eaten as lunch at the end of the session.
I need to be able to include the young children as I'm anticipating
them wanting to join in with their plastic knives.

Any idea will be much appreciated.

Thank you.

Best Wishes,
Sharon.

Sylvia Toyama

I'm supposed to organise a cookery class for little unschoolers age 2 onwards, and am at lost as to what would be a good recipe to use. As we're currently doing activities relating to Christopher Columbus,

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has the entire world become so america-centric that even europe the exploits (and genocide that resulted) of columbus are celebrated in England? how sad.....

Sylvia


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Melissa

Well, we are part of a group called kitchen creations, but we don't
follow a theme, the kids just vote in the previous section on what
they want to make. We take the recipe and make it easy for the
littles, but we always use sharp metal knives, since plastic ones are
notoriously dull and slip to cause more injury than a regular knife.
I tell you truthfully that no child has been injured in our classes.

You could make just about anything, I don't know what adults would
make to 'celebrate' columbus day, but we just had a pirate party in
which we pretended to sail a big boat, we had a basket of tropical
fruit with which kids made fruit salad. They had a good time, and
most of the fruits are soft enough to cut easily. We also had
'hardtack' (biscuits) and they made minipizza's out of them
(arrrgh...pirate pizza, as you may know, is a staple for any scurvy
dog) lol!

The last time we made cookies, the organizer had gone through and
premeasured everything for the littles and stored them in snack cups.
So really all the little ones had to do was pour them out into a
bigger bowl and stir. It worked well, and the funny thing was that
the six year olds got a prepared table, and even though it was
premeasured, went through and measured everything according to the
recipe. They were quite amazed that each bowl held the exact amount.

Melissa
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(4), and Avari Rose (19 months)

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On Sep 24, 2007, at 7:30 AM, lyeping2607 wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm supposed to organise a cookery class for little unschoolers age 2
> onwards, and am at lost as to what would be a good recipe to use. As
> we're currently doing activities relating to Christopher Columbus, I'm
> appealing for suggestions as to what would be a good recipe to
> represent his' travels. I know Columbus landed in America when he was
> expecting to China, and that he found lush vegetation and maize. What
> can we cook that easy, can be eaten as lunch at the end of the
> session.
> I need to be able to include the young children as I'm anticipating
> them wanting to join in with their plastic knives.
>
> Any idea will be much appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Sharon.
>
>
>



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Ren Allen

~~ has the entire world become so america-centric that even europe
the exploits (and genocide that resulted) of columbus are celebrated
in England? how sad.....~~

What I'm wondering, is why a two year old would give a rats patootie
about any theme at all!! If this is something the older kids enjoy and
the smaller kids are along, why not have a bunch of balls and
physical toys for anyone not wanting to learn about Columbus (most of
that history is pretty steeped in lies anyway) and if the smaller kids
want to cook, then put a bunch of flour and water and bowls so they
can just make whatever "goo" they feel like concocting.

Why celebrate Columbus anyway? I'm curious about that. Do the kids
know the truth about him?
http://www.teenink.com/Poetry/article.php?link=Past/2000/October/Opinion/ColumbusDidNot.xml

Why not celebrate Autumnal equinox or Peace day in September? Or
maybe one of the first people from the old world to discover America:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Ericson

I think it's great to learn about Columbus when one is interested, but
I would hope that people are questioning the fact that a day is set
aside in honor of someone that wasn't such a great guy at all.

Ren
learninginfreedom.com

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In a message dated 9/24/2007 5:31:08 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
lyeping2607@... writes:

Hi everyone,

I'm supposed to organise a cookery class for little unschoolers age 2
onwards, and am at lost as to what would be a good recipe to use. As
we're currently doing activities relating to Christopher Columbus, I'm
appealing for suggestions as to what would be a good recipe to
represent his' travels. I know Columbus landed in America when he was
expecting to China, and that he found lush vegetation and maize. What
can we cook that easy, can be eaten as lunch at the end of the session.
I need to be able to include the young children as I'm anticipating
them wanting to join in with their plastic knives.

Any idea will be much appreciated.

Thank you.

Best Wishes,
Sharon.


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Hi, Sharon! I'm fairly sure cornbread is easy, and baked apples too...Have
you done a search on recipes from the time period? Have fun, sounds neat!

Karen



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In a message dated 9/24/2007 6:08:55 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
sylgt04@... writes:

has the entire world become so america-centric that even europe the exploits
(and genocide that resulted) of columbus are celebrated in England? how
sad.....

Sylvia



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I think using the great sadness of that time period and some of the idealism
of the travelers, mixing it, discussing it and participating in a lot of the
stuff surrounding it is a nice blend myself...I have been really involved
each year in discussing the REAL Thanksgiving, the REAL stuff that happened over
the time period leading up to that, and it's very, very sad, that's true.
But I also am trying to put myself into that time period and try and understand
how the explorers felt, what they thought and why they did what they
did...history isn't often easy, is it?

Karen



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decjec

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Maybe some fruit desserts from the carribean as he landed on many of
the islands.
Danette

- In [email protected], "lyeping2607"
<lyeping2607@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm supposed to organise a cookery class for little unschoolers age 2
> onwards, and am at lost as to what would be a good recipe to use. As
> we're currently doing activities relating to Christopher Columbus, I'm
> appealing for suggestions as to what would be a good recipe to
> represent his' travels. I know Columbus landed in America when he was
> expecting to China, and that he found lush vegetation and maize. What
> can we cook that easy, can be eaten as lunch at the end of the session.
> I need to be able to include the young children as I'm anticipating
> them wanting to join in with their plastic knives.
>
> Any idea will be much appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Sharon.
>