I’ve just posted a Blueberry Cobbler Recipe on the Teachers Pay Teachers site.
This resource is available in three formats: Regular (no symbol-support), SymbolStix (n2y), and Picture Communication Symbols
(Tobii/Dynavox).
Although this is an easy to assemble recipe, it does have many ingredients which can make the group lesson quite long. I typically pre-measure and pre-package many of the ingredients (‘cooking show’ style) to minimize the deadly
‘wait time’ that can cause a potentially great group activity to unravel.
When working in a school for students with physical
disabilities, the Occupational Therapists
were more than happy to work one-on-one with a student to pre-measure and package
the ingredients for the class lesson (scheduled for later in the day). This strategy
offered a host of functional fine motor opportunities … opening and closing
containers, pouring, stabilizing with the non dominant hand, using both hands
to open a zip lock bag, using an index finger to seal the zip lock bag, writing
the contents on the zip lock bag. Depending upon the nature of the class, measured
items can be packaged individually or combined, e.g., all the ‘dry' ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder, salt) assembled in one bag. During the actual
group lesson the labeled bag provides an additional literacy opportunity for
the group.
Teachers also like to incorporate math in their lesson by creating a
mystery jar/bowl of blueberries. A chart is used to document each student's guess inviting students to guess/predict how many blueberries are
in the jar/bowl. The class would eventually count out the
blueberries. "There were 178 blueberries in the jar. Let's look at our prediction chart. Who had the closest number?"
The
Blueberry Cobbler Animated Step-by-Step recipe pairs well with a variety of
Blueberry themed picture books.
…’til the
next post … (new posts every Monday)
Follow me on
twitter www.twitter.com/@AnimStepbySteps
Email
me canadiangoosse@gmail.com
©2017 Carol
Goossens’, Ph.D.
Augmentative
Communication Consultant
Speech-Language
Pathologist
Special
Educator
