As we continue with our cooking project, this play kitchen, stocked with child size utensils, offers an opportunity to act out their experience of cooking, both from home and at school. We hear new vocabulary, learned during this project. "I found a whisk!" "Where are the ingredients?" "I'm cracking eggs."
In clay the children used knives and forks to make marks in their work, and rolling pins to create thin slabs. This week we used a damp sponge and discovered that when the clay is wet it sticks to the rolling pin!
With Ms Buckley a small group of children considers the difference between cook books for children and those for grown ups, thanks to the loan of a cookbook from Julian's family.
Ms Buckley: How do you know it’s a cookbook for grown ups?
Watson: Because there’s hot stuff. It will have pictures if it’s a cookbook.
When asked if they can read the recipe in the grown up cook book, one child recited the alphabet, one could read the numbers, another remembered the ingredients we used last time we made pancakes at school. With the children’s cookbooks, the children can “read” the pictures to decipher the directions.
Next week the children will take charge and, using a picture recipe, follow the directions to make pancakes/crepes.
