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It's a life skill that is useful when you're older.

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- Cooking classes can be useful to a student's future life and it also teaches them the importance of safety as well as cooking.

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It can help develop students' motor skills and multi-tasking skills that could possibly come in use in the future.

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Cooking classes can encourage student's and adults to stop always getting artificial, processed food and instead fresh, healthy meals.

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By cooking for yourself, you can ensure that you and your family eat fresh, wholesome meals.

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“Every kid in every school no matter their background, deserves to learn the basics about food – where it comes from, how to cook it, and how it affects their bodies.  These life skills are as important as reading and writing, but they’ve been lost over the past few generations. We need to bring them back and bring up our kids to be streetwise about food.”

-Jamie Oliver

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I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaway food isn't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of their school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.

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High modality

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high vocabulary

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reasonable information

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figurative language

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opinions

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sizzling start

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Emotive language - language that makes you feel something.

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The rule of three - When you list something it sounds better in the rule of three.

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Rhetorical questions

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Repetition

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There are three main stages of growing in a person. Infant, adult and senior. When you reach the age of a responsible student in school, you should definitely take that great opportunity to develop new skills that can later on be incorporated into your life, such as cooking. Cooking classes should certainly be compulsory across all schools as part of the curriculum. Such lessons can teach students new skills that can later be useful in their daily life. For instance; you take a look at your clock and you realise that it's 6:30 pm. OH NO! IT'S TIME FOR DINNER! But, how do I cook? When you're student and don't have the responsibility of cooking, you may think that cooking lessons shouldn't be compulsory, but they should be. With the help of mandatory cooking lessons, you can have no problem with cooking anywhere at anytime. Not only would compulsory cooking lessons teach kids the value of a great lifetime skill, it can also teach them the importance of safety. Safety should be the number 1 priority during cooking. When people hear the subject of cooking or food tech, they tend to think that it's just the art of standing around whisking something up. But, that is certainly not true. Cooking requires utensils, equipment and usually fire. Yes, fire. Fire is the #1 safety hazard that can't always be controlled. When cooking, you can learn the process of how to safely cook something over the stove. This can teach an important life lesson and safety lesson. Cooking can teach students' the severe damage of fire and how to stay safe.

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Compulsory cooking lessons can teach many things. One of the most useful skills that can be devloped or improved are a child's motor skills. Motor skills are the child's ability to move around and perform any sort of movement. Believe it or not, everybody's motor skills are different. Some are immaculate and for others, there's still room for improvement. By improvement, I mean cooking lessons. Mandatory cooking lessons can improve a child's motor skills by identifying there working speed. Cooking requires a lot of moving around, multitasking and movement. As previously mentioned, not everybody is physically capable of working at the same speed. But, with the assistance of cooking lessons, student's motor skills can continue to improve and eventually, be fully developed. Having slower motor skill development is certainly not a disadvantage of any sort, but it's always good to improve.

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Do you love fast food takeouts and eating at restaurants? What if I told you that a scientific study reveals that 36.6% of adults in America eat fast food takeout on any given day? This means that approximately 84.4 million people eat takeout food every single day. Lots of people around the world love to eat fast food takeout as it is delicious, delectable and much faster than cooking. Although this is true, cooking has much better health benefits. There is nothing wrong with eating takeout for lunch and dinner once or twice a week, but having it consistently can lead to major health issues. Majority of fast food restaurants cook very unhealthy food in a bucket load of oil which is extremely unhealthy. However, if cooking lessons were compulsory then we could teach everybody the health benefits of cooking. By learning and having the ability to cook, you can ensure that yourself (or family) can eat fresh, healthy meals. This is because by cooking for yourself, you can be sure that what you put into your body is healthy and has lots of protein. Fast food takeouts are usually full of preservatives and artificials that can lead to severe health issues like obesity, cancer etc. But by eating home-made, personally cooked meals you are guaranteed to have better immune and health system as you have a much better chance of eating healthy. Yes, it may take longer, but that long time of hard work put into cooking fresh, wholesome meals are much more worth the time than taking the time to buy processed, oily food from takout places.

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Having good motor skills helps children develop the necessary coordination to independently complete tasks like tying shoes, buttoning a shirt, working zippers, and holding a pencil. Working on fine motor skills (use of the hands) also helps young children develop cognitively and understand the world around them.

If you have a toddler or preschooler in the house, baking can be a great activity for helping them work on fine motor development-and lots of other skills, too. In fact, baking activities present an opportunity to work on your child's sensory development, mathematical thinking, and scientific exploration. Here are some tips for cooking with toddlers and preschoolers:

Choose a simple recipe

This activity is all about your toddler, so pick a recipe that's easy to make and will allow them to be very hands-on in the process. Basic cookies or a fruit smoothie would work great.

Talk about texture

As you and your toddler handle the ingredients, observe how each feels on your hands. The word/feeling association will add another layer to the activity that will aid their cognitive development by reinforcing vocabulary.

Let your child be hands-on

Try not to guide your child's hand too much-allow them to scoop and place ingredients. This is where they will be working on their fine motor skills. Go slowly and allow your child to explore and talk about each ingredient.

Count and measure

Introduce your child to the different measuring tools and talk about how one is smaller than another and what you measure with them. Count aloud each time you scoop and place an ingredient.

Talk about taste

When it comes time to enjoy your creation, reinforce that the food is the outcome of the preparation you did together. Ask your toddler to describe how the food tastes and help reinforce that vocabulary.

Adapting for baby

If you have a baby in the home who is sitting on their own, you can adapt this activity to help develop their fine motor skills as well. Instead of cooking a recipe, fill containers with different textured food items like uncooked beans, oats, or seeds. Allow your baby to explore the different textures and watch you scoop and pour ingredients with a measuring cup. This simple activity will introduce them to the concept of volume and how containers can be filled and emptied.

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Developing Children's Motor Skills Through Cooking

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Having good motor skills helps children develop the necessary coordination to independently complete tasks like tying shoes, buttoning a shirt, working zippers, and holding a pencil. Working on fine motor skills (use of the hands) also helps young children develop cognitively and understand the world around them.