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[monster]

I'm with the teacher. And you and the other GF parents could club together and provide the whole class with GF sandwich cookies. Or at least provide them for your own kids.

How would you make learning this topic interesting? What would you use for a demonstration? I think that most kids will have already played with sandwich cookies and so have first-hand experience of how you can make the two hard parts move apart. So they're already partway to the "aha" moment.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by monster

I'm with the teacher. And you and the other GF parents could club together and provide the whole class with GF sandwich cookies. Or at least provide them for your own kids.

Absolutely, but only if the teacher sends home a note telling us it's going to happen, which is what they were rolling their eyes at as being unnecessary.

Originally Posted by monster

How would you make learning this topic interesting? What would you use for a demonstration? I think that most kids will have already played with sandwich cookies and so have first-hand experience of how you can make the two hard parts move apart. So they're already partway to the "aha" moment.

Playdough and blocks come to mind, both readily found in the classroom environment. My experience is that the minute treats are even promised, let alone in their hands, it is the only thing they will think about. The "aha" moment will be replaced with "yeah yeah, we move the cookie bits like this, can we eat them yet?" I remember a few times when food was incorporated into lessons as a kid, and how we were all too excited about the cool change in routine to learn anything.