Smoothie Time - Health, Nutrition & Home Economics: Homeschooling Curriculum and Cookbook

The media could not be loaded.  My son loves smoothies, so I had to get the book. There is a smoothie recipe and then some writing prompts. The child answers questions about the specific ingredients. It’s more writing than my son will do right now, but it gives me ideas on what we should look up to learn more about what we are making. There a cute jokes, word search, and lots of tips. I can’t wait to incorporate this in our school week.

My sons (9 & 14) and I LOVE this smoothie Journal! It is a wonderful way for children to learn about food safety and prep, as well as following and creating new smoothie recipies. There are beautifully illustrated pages for coloring, and nice research pages for different fruits and veggies. I love the culinary rich vocabulary throughout the journal as well as the science and math connections. I, as a homeschool mom, love that multiple ages can use this journal and that it resembles a unit study, in my opinion, covering multiple subject areas. It can easily be considered: health, math, science, language age arts, and even geography and social studies ( culture of foods in different countries through researching). Love it and definitely recommend this product!

I have worked with kids for 40 years. They love to have projects they can accomplish on their own. This workbook gives them the opportunity, with adult supervision, to make some amazing smoothies. In addition, the author has peppered in a variety of related topics to help the kids investigate costs, nutritional value, food borne illness and the math required to scale up, or scale down the quantities needed for portion control. Almost every page is tuned to engage the budding chef with riddles, coloring pictures and opportunities to experiment with substitutions in a recipe.Over the years, I've cooked with kids and never considered the genius provided by this book. Blending a smoothie is possibly one of the safest ways a kid can cook in the kitchen. No burners, ovens, hot pans and in many cases, no knives. Really clever.It is a happy book. Kids love it.

The media could not be loaded.  Great variety of smoothie recipes, health bits, unique and engaging questions/prompts for the reader to be creative, experiment, and do some research. This book is good for anyone with dyslexia, because it has a special font to help those readers see the letters correctly. Definitely recommend for active minds and children who want to be creative in the kitchen!

I bought this book when it was on sale and have looked through it several times trying too decide if I like it.I hoped it would be something my son (10 years old and decent in the kitchen) could use to build more variety into his smoothies and more independence in the kitchen. To that end it has several "recipes" for different smoothies, one every few pages.Following each recipe there are follow up question pages about how the smoothie tasted/ what could have changed, etc. I do like how not every follow up page is exactly identical. The 4 questions are similar on each follow up but different enough to be considered and not skimmed over in their monotony.There are also coloring pages with most, if not all, recipes. Usually coloring the name of the smoothie and a glass with the smoothie ingredients. Cute enough but my son would just skip that part.At the beginning of the book there is a section on cross contamination and general kitchen safety, with some follow up questions.I think the most "curriculum" type stuff is the page or two after each recipe that asks the child to discover more about one of the ingredients from that smoothie. Where does it grow? How? Can you draw it? And other similar questions. You'll need a library book or Google to complete these but that's kind of the point I think.All that to say, I like the idea of the book and we will work through it this summer but we will likely skip a large portion of the pages.Also, take it to a copy store and have them cut the binding off and spiral bind the book instead. It's like $5 and makes the book so much easier to use in the kitchen.

I went through this when I received the other day. There is a lot that can be done with this book. Use imagination and it will make a great study for any age...home ec. for high school.

This book much like the Yum School book has given my dyslexic son freedom in the kitchen. He can use it on his own to make us tasty & healthy smoothies. What I also love about this book is that it also has research pgs where you look up the health benefits of the ingredients & other uses for them, vocabulary words, & lots of pgs for making your own recipes.

This book is so creative! It combines the subjects of Cooking, Health, and Home Economics together for an enjoyable time of trying smoothie recipes, making and researching new recipes, researching health benefits and ways of using different vegetables. There are lots of fun pages too, from word finds, coloring pages, etc. I think we’ll keep it from now on as a memory keepsake/cookbook. For every fruit or vegetable we study, we’re also looking for at least new recipe for it, or we’ll just make our own.

We love this book! My son loves colouring the pages and filling out the blank areas! He actually looks forward to this everyday! The recipes are very simple and the ingredients you most likely always will have on hand.

A little bit young for what I was aiming for. However, it will be a good reference.

We love this journal. I highly recommend this journal if you have a child that's ready to learn about cooking but you're not quite ready for them to start using the stove. With this journal you can teach them how to prep, kitchen safety and how to make something healthy.