Today's guest blogger is Elizabeth Castillo-Guajardo, Assistant Principal at
Gregory-Lincoln Education Center, PK-8 school with Fine Arts magnet program in
Houston, Texas. You can follow her on Twitter. I'd suggest making a little snack before reading this post! ;-)
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| Elizabeth Castillo-Guajardo |
Well read. Well fed. As a school administrator, I am always trying to instill ways to foster that love of reading not only in our
students but my staff as well. We can share
the love of books through our love of food.
Pairing food found in books we read is a great way to not only share a
great book but also find that warm, fuzzy, feeling we get from our books in our
tummies as well.
Each month we hosted a Family
Literacy Night highlighting one of our core content areas along with our Fine
Arts classes. One of our most popular
Fine Arts courses is Culinary Arts led by our trendsetting teacher, Mrs. Kellie
Karavais. Our October Family Night featured the book Stone Soup, by Marcia Brown, with a
demonstration and sampling of School Stone Soup led by our Culinary Arts
students. They not only harvested the
ingredients from our school garden but led the demonstrations and packaged the
School Stone soup kits. Each family that
attended received a free Stone Soup
book donated by Scholastic and a kit to make School Stone Soup at home (in
addition to the sampling they also received).
Other books we showcased this year
include:
So, let’s consider books and some
pairings that we hope to try next year and thanks to Pinterest for some great
ideas! Aside from the classic Dr.
Seuss’s, Green Eggs and Ham, other
books might include The Very Hungry
Caterpillar, Blueberries for Sal,
Creepy Carrots, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and of course, all the Laura
Numeroff books If You Give a Mouse a
Cookie, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, If You Give
a Dog a Donut.
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More titles to consider….
So, take a Bite out of Literacy and
enjoy a good book and be well read and well fed!
For more information on “The Cultivated Classroom” led by
Mrs. Karavais, click here.
Other ideas
for books and food:
Thank you, Lisa, for this "food for thought" about connecting kids with books through tasty things to eat! Very clever.
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