The second article in a series of four, featuring easy ideas for cooking up tasty winter learning activities, American recipes for ESL students of all ages, and links to Valentine’s Day and President’s Day recipes.
Celebrating Valentine’s Day Differs Internationally
Once a religious holiday to honor St. Valentine, Valentine’s Day is now celebrated on February 14th of every year as a secular holiday, which typically involves the exchange of cards and chocolate between loved ones.
However, at Celebrating Valentine's Day Differs Internationally from TOPICS Online Magazine , international students explain how Valentine's Day is celebrated in their countries, reflect on how romance differs in countries, tell a story about meeting a husband-to-be, and share Valentine's Day poems.
Easy-to-prepare Valentine’s Day Classroom Recipe
A Fizzy Valentines’ Day Treat
Ingredients:
Ginger ale or 7-up style soda
Strawberry ice cream
Whipped Cream or Cool Whip
I teaspoon strawberry preserves
Students fill tall glasses ¾ full with strawberry ice cream, and then slowly pour soda over ice cream. Top with a teaspoon of strawberry preserves and whipped cream.
Also . . .
Cupid’s Cups Recipe , a video featuring an easy to prepare quick-set gelatin recipe that can be custom designed by the students.
Additional easy to prepare Valentine’s Day recipes can be found at Kraft Foods. Enjoy classroom cooking in circle time with your students.
Presidents’ Day: Honoring Past Presidents of the United States
Presidents’ Day, celebrated as a legal holiday on the third Monday in February in the United States. in commemoration of the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, offers ESL teachers an excellent opportunity for sharing a cultural cooking activity with their ESL students.
President’s Day Recipes
These easy recipes are featured at CDKitchen a site with nearly 100,00 different recipes organized in 2,500 different categories.
President Reagan's Favorite Homemade Chili
Thomas Jefferson`s Chicken Fricassee
Laura Bush's Baked Potato Soup
Mary Todd Lincoln's Vanilla Almond Cake
Washington’s Cherry Pie
President Roosevelt`s Birthday Cake
Mrs. Truman`s Punch
And the following recipes are featured on the Recipe Zaar
L. B. J. Chili Dip
Rosalyn Carter's Cheese Ring
Consommé Julienne a La Kennedy
Barbara Bush's Chocolate Chip Cookies
A Comforting Winter Circle Time Activity for Grades Pre-K—4
Food & Eating 1 – Vegetable Soup. Do You Like It? , from Sesame English ESL for Children; this printable PDF document features a detailed curriculum guide for a language-based cooking activity.
Resources for Creating Alternative Non-Cooking Winter Food Related Activities
Audio #434 Baking Bread a free online listening resource, from ELLO, of over 1,000 listening activities designed especially for ESL and EFL students and teachers.
Harvest Eating: Seasonal Cooking Made Easy features a great selection of winter recipes and videos that will inspire adult students to create warm and hearty wintertime meals and menus in their own homes.
No matter the age of the ESL students, planning and cooking a great winter meal together, as a classroom activity, can be a great way to enjoy good food while learning English!
Part 1 Cooking Up Tasty American Recipes for a Successful ESL Autumn Learning Activity features links to on-line resources for selecting recipes and choosing from a great list of ideas for several other cooking and food related ESL activities. Links to a great selection of videos featuring autumn recipes like toffee apples, pumpkin soup, and apple crumble, as well as Web sites related to ESL cooking activities featuring Native American lesson plans.
Part 3 in the upcoming Cooking Up Tasty American Recipes for Successful ESL Learning Activities Series, features links to Easter, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day and additional spring celebrations unique to America.
Part 4 upcoming in the Cooking Up Tasty American Recipes for Successful ESL Learning Activities Series, features links to 4th of July, Labor Day and additional summer celebrations unique to America.
Cooking Up Tasty American Recipes for a Successful ESL Learning Activity
Planning and cooking American recipes together, as an ESL classroom activity, can be a great way to enjoy good food while learning English! Part of a series of four seasonal articles with food and activities for ESL students.