[Pibe-division] Have some fun with your children

Dr. Denise M. Robinson dmehlenbacher at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 5 16:10:02 UTC 2011


Math, Cooking and Pumpkins 
It is that time of the year, where pumpkins abound and are ready to be picked, cleaned, cut, and eaten.

This is a great opportunity for blind children or any child for that 
matter, to help eat and decorate but also learn about math through 
counting pumpkin seeds and baking pumpkin pie, bread or cookies. But 
first, you need to head to a pumpkin patch to pick out the perfect 
pumpkin. Really, all the way to a field. Blind children will not 
understand how things are grown, if they only get food from a store, so 
head to a pumpkin farm.

After you pick the perfect pumpkin, it is actually best for you to have 
your child help you bake the "good" pumpkin pie, cookies or bread first,
 so they taste the end result, before diving their hands into all the 
goo of string, mush and seeds. They eat and enjoy, then onto the 
pumpkin. They will be more likely to dive in if they know they get more 
"good" at the end.

As you help them cut open the top and scrape out the insides, have them 
separate the seeds from the goo. Then they will count out the seeds into
 parts of 10, 20, etc., depending on age. Then have them place the seeds
 in a baking dish and bake the seeds, having them count as they place 
the seeds on the baking dish. They will find out how many seeds will fit
 flat on the dish. Have them spray the seeds with some cooking spray, 
salt the seeds and put in the oven to bake.

While the seeds bake, cut the pumpkin up, put in another baking dish, 
and bake that until soft and ready for pie, bread or cookies...whatever 
is the favorite of the child.

The other pumpkins, you get to help your child decorate for Halloween. 
They will start gaining incredibly fond memories of this time of season 
if you do this every year.
For more stories, go to: http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/
 
       Denise 
 
Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D. 
Teacher of the Blind & Visually Impaired
TechVision-Independent Contractor
Specialist in blind programming/teaching/training
509-674-1853     deniserob at gmail.com
 
http://blindgeteducated.blogspot.com/
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