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Week 01 · Clean Hands, Ready Kitchen

Thursday

Read the recipe card
// Wash up, team up, read the card
⏱ about 15 min

Thursday: Read the Recipe Card

Oliver the Owl pins a card to the wall. "This is our first recipe," he says.

Bennie squints at it. "So many words! Where do I start?"

Ferris points to the top. "What do you notice about how the card is set up?"

Riley taps the card. "Here is a hint," he says. "Read every part before you begin."

The parts of a recipe card

  • Title: the name of the food.
  • Makes: how many servings the recipe gives.
  • Ingredients: the foods you need and how much of each.
  • Allergy swap: a change so someone with a food allergy can eat it.
  • Steps: what to do, in order.
Recipe: Rainbow Fruit Cups
Makes: 4 cups, one for each person.
Ingredients:
1 cup of strawberries
1 cup of orange pieces
1 banana
1 cup of green grapes
1 cup of blueberries
Allergy swap: Fruit allergies happen too. Leave out any fruit your family avoids, and add more of another.
  1. You: Wash your hands with all five steps.
  2. You: Rinse the strawberries, grapes and blueberries under running water.
  3. Grown-up: Cut the strawberries, banana and grapes into small pieces with a knife.
  4. You: Put one color at a time into each cup, red first.
  5. You: Count to check that every cup got the same.
  6. Everyone: Taste, smile and clean up together.
Safety first
A grown-up handles the knife and does all the cutting.
Keep your fingers away from the cutting board while the grown-up works.
FIND IT ON THE CARD
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
How many cups does the recipe make?
Which part tells you how much of each fruit?
Who cuts the fruit?

Recipe math: equal groups

Each cup should get the same amount. That is called equal groups.

If each cup gets 5 blueberries, and there are 4 cups, multiply.

4 groups of 5 is 20. You need 20 blueberries.

Each cup gets 3 strawberry pieces. There are 4 cups. How many pieces in all?
Each cup gets 6 grape halves. There are 4 cups. How many halves in all?
20 blueberries are shared by 4 cups. How many in each cup?
PUT THE FRUIT CUP STEPS IN ORDER
  • ?Wash your hands.
  • ?Fill the cups one color at a time.
  • ?A grown-up cuts the fruit.
  • ?Taste and clean up.
  • ?Rinse the fruit.
WHY THIS EXERCISESteps in order make a recipe work the same way every time.
About the cardTrue or false?
The allergy swap line helps people with food allergies.?
You should read the whole card before you start.?
The steps can go in any order.?
WHY THIS EXERCISEReading the whole card first means no surprises halfway through.
What is the first step of almost every recipe? Type one word.
WHY THIS EXERCISEClean hands come first, before any food.

Nice reading, cook! Tomorrow Freddy has a review game for you.

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