Cooking Classes
Each Cooking class focuses on making dishes from one region of the world. Cooking classes are taught by a trained food educator and the classroom teacher. Family volunteers are invited and welcomed. Cooking with Kids provides a Spanish/English food journal for each student. We begin each two-hour cooking class by looking at a map or globe, reading about the history of foods we are using, how they grow, and how these foods help our bodies. That food comes from anywhere beyond the grocery store is a topic we revisit often.


Sample Cooking Lesson

Click below to see a an example of a cooking lesson.

Sample Cooking Lesson


Students work in small groups with an adult to prepare part of the menu. Every group activity is a problem-solving opportunity.
  • When is it my turn?
  • She hogs the recipe.
  • I can’t measure ¾ teaspoon! There is no ¾ teaspoon!
  • What should I do now?

While the food is cooking, younger children might practice writing a sentence in their food journal about what the group has made. Older students might do some recipe math. Everybody loves to grind wheat or corn in a hand-powered grain mill.
Wow, this is hard. This is how they made flour, a long time ago?
Sometimes there is a story to read aloud.

When the food is ready, children learn to wait until everyone is served before eating, to say ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’ and ‘Please pass the salad’. While we eat, we listen to music from that part of the world. We wash our own plates. Recipes are available in Spanish and English to take home. With so many helping hands, we learn to help each other. Purchase curriculum

Teacher Quote:
  • CWK not only helps us academically, it helps us socially, and if we can’t work well socially, it is very difficult to work at all.

Student quote:
  • I learned in Cooking with Kids how to make new foods I have never tried before. I thought I wasn’t going to like it, but I was wrong. Trying new foods from different countries is a fun thing to do.