Cooking

In my daily living class, we have been focusing on making lunches. My students decided to make sandwiches. We decided to make peanut butter and jelly, turkey and cheese, and grilled cheese with soup. We started with peanut butter and jelly. Each student had one class period to make the sandwich. My one student struggles with cooking as he has not had much experience in the kitchen. He knew to get out all of his material. He then was not sure what to do next. He figured out that he needed to put jelly on one slice of bread and peanut butter on the other slice. He did not spread his jelly or peanut butter out and he did not match up the pieces of bread correctly. We talked about ways to improve his sandwich and he worked on fixing it. The next time he made his turkey and cheese sandwich. Again when he put his mayo on his bread he put it all in one spot as well as the turkey. However, he knew to line up his bread correctly. We talked again about spreading out his turkey. The next sandwich was the grilled cheese and soup. This student chose to make tomato soup. He needed help reading the directions on the can but was then able to make the soup independently. He then went to make his sandwich. I had him use a sandwich maker instead of cooking it on the stove. He was able to put his sandwich correctly, however; once he put it in the sandwich maker he separated the pieces of bread. So when he was done he did not end up with much of sandwich as all of the cheese was stuck to the sandwich maker. We then talked about why it didn't work and he tried again. Overall, I was pleased with his success. We have some work ahead of us but he is making progress. It is great to see what he has been able to do.