Cooking classes developed for 6-8 year-olds.
We strive to create a more educated, able, and healthy society.
Classes run year-round and are organized by age group (ages 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, and 13-18). Each 3-hour class, students are empowered to cook on their own, which builds confidence, independence, and healthy eating habits, all while gaining practical life skills, learning food literacy, and polishing up their table manners by sharing meals around the LKA community table. Classes are available 7-days a week and we are open year-round, including certain holidays, and offer camps during Summer, Winter, and Spring breaks.
The curriculum We provide educational enrichment to help your child build practical life skills.
Our 3-hour work cycle for children 6-8 years old begins when the students change into their chef’s coats and are shown how to properly wash their hands.
Together, we work through seasonal recipes by collecting, washing, and preparing our ingredients. We encourage our students to make substitutions based on their personal interests. We show our students how to safely handle kitchen equipment and clean up after themselves. Our students set the table and enjoy the delicious dish they made while practicing their table manners. We lead discussions on how to change the recipe next time.
- Children crave consistency and repetition. It allows them to be comfortable with their new environment and develop practical skills in the kitchen, and in life.
- 6-8-year-old students are all about imagination and abstraction. They love figuring out different choices to make their foods taste better. Thinking outside of the box allows them to build their confidence and become more interested in trying new things.
- We encourage our students to make substitutions based on their personal interests.
- When cutting a whole pepper into slices, students are exposed to the basic idea of fractions and division.
- Caring for and growing vegetables promotes the questions “where does my food come from?” and “how does this benefit my body?”
- We lead discussions on how to change the recipe next time.
- We are working on the refinement of the senses:
- Olfactory: encouraging how to identify a spice or a herb by smell
- Visual: challenging our students to make consistent or uniform cuts
- Tactile: feeling different textures in our ingredients
- Gustatory: tasting all of our sweeteners to decide which tastes best
- Auditory: listening to our instructions and following the steps
Food Philosophy
Giving Back
To say that this place is amazing is such an understatement. Felicity is lovely, passionate and extremely knowledgeable in the art and science of both cooking/food and the Montessori method of attachment based experiential learning. My daughter Ariana cannot contain her excitement for this place, and is learning life skills, building on a passion and enjoying new and delicious foods. I wish EVERY child could experience Little Kitchen Academy. Worth every penny and then some!
Sarvi, LKA Point Grey Parent
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LKA provides educational enrichment to help your child build practical life skills and learn about food literacy. Take the first step in building healthy habits for your child by enrolling them into cooking classes at a Little Kitchen Academy near you.
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