This holiday season, Babyman's teachers are all about cooking. A single recipe takes a week to produce: first, the students discuss and vote on ingredients (this spirited debate I would looooove to see; I can just imagine Babyman offering up "chocolate," repeatedly and exclusively). Then they go shopping, prep and, finally, cook. Our preschool offers a project-based curriculum where the subject matter is derived from the students' collective interest in a certain topic, e.g. Transportation, Weather/Temperature, Bears, and so on. If that sentence sounded sort of ridiculous, please be ... [READ MORE]
On Packing a Lunch
July 12, 2010 by 2 Comments
Lest my more loyal readers fear that I am wholly fixated on Babyman's vegetable consumption, take heart: I am also pretty obsessed with lunchbox packing (and shoes, but that's for another blog I suppose). What is it about lunchboxes? At the preschool level, at least, it means someone else (i.e., Babyman's wonderful teacher) has a window into the weird world of his particular tastes. I mean, with all the friends and activities and distractions at school, it's not exactly an ideal place to test-drive new recipes. But if I loaded his lunchbox with his favorites, it would look something like ... [READ MORE]
