RECIPE BOOK KITTENS
RECIPE BOOK KITTENS
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How cooking can connect us as a group and as Avenues students?
The students from Kittens love to cook and share about themselves with their friends and teachers.
By bringing recipes and dishes from home to share with the class, they are also bringing to school a little bit of their family, memories, history, and love.
When cooking these special recipes together, students can connect as a group while also teaching their peers and learning at the same time about ingredients, food, processes, and also about themselves!
We also practiced Welcome, Safety, and Respect.
Children are welcoming with their friends when getting together to make their recipes with care.
They are respectful when taking turns mixing the dough or when they save a cookie for a friend who is absent.
They feel safe when they know there will be an opportunity for everyone to share and participate.
The Kittens recipe book is a mosaic of all these experiences and it was created with the contribution of everyone.
This makes the work rich and unique.
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Our learning journey
A lot of learning can be seen within this recipe book. While studying a recipe and cooking, our young learners developed many different skills, such as Planning, Measuring, Creativity, and Research. Before cooking, they had to check to make sure we had all the ingredients, and, by following a recipe, they learned that there are many steps and that they have an order. Also, they understood the importance of waiting. Waiting for the cake to be baked in the oven, or waiting overnight for the watermelon popsicle to be ready. A lot of math happened throughout the project as well. Students looked at recipes, read numbers and counted how many spoons of butter or cups of sugar they needed to add to prepare the mixture for the cake. Kittens students had an important role in documenting the project. They took pictures and drew many of the ingredients and utensils used. They also recorded, using different languages, meaningful moments of the project. What is a recipe? Why is it important? How to make a recipe book? How does corn turn into popcorn? How to make a pink cake? These were some of the questions investigated by our students throughout the semester. To be able to answer these questions, students visited a public library to learn more about ingredients and recipe books, explored ingredients to understand how they, feel, and smell and also visited the science lab, to test some of their hypotheses.
Kittens Nursery Avenues São Paulo
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December 2022
“Eu fiz o milho.” Nina
PARA FAZER PIPOCA:
• Pegue o milho e coloque na pipoqueira
• O milho é o milho duro
• Ligue a pipoqueira na tomada
• Deixa um pouquinho na pipoqueira e faz outra coisa para esperar
• Faz a pipoca
• Coloca sal
• Come a pipoca
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“É a pipoca.”
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Luke 8
On this page, clockwise from the top left: (1) Nina’s representation of corn made of clay; (2) Luke’s, representation of popcorn using playdough; (3) a drawing of corn by Gigi; (4) corn and popcorn exploration, by Isabelle.
On the left page: Experiment with popcorn in Science Class with Ms. Miranda and a drawing by Luke.
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com leite.”
Eleonora
Nicolas
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“É a receita. Se a gente não tiver esse papel, a gente faz tudo errado.”
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“Tinha forma de coração, flor, bonequinha, estrela.” Carolina
“É a forma do cookie de flor e a forma de assar.”
Nina
“É o menino comendo o cookie de bola.” Luke
Eu trouxe a receita do meu bolo preferido.” Nicolas
Egg, by Erick
INGREDIENTS
Bake at 180° for 30 - 40 minutes
“O forno faz ficar grande.” Nicolas
Nico, cutting pieces of the cake to his friends
• 1 cup yogurt • 1 cup oil • 4 eggs • 2 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 cup chocolate powder
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How to prepare:
• Mix all the ingredients in a bowl, beginning with the liquidy ones.
• Remember to break each egg separatelly.
• Then put the flour, the sugar and the baking powder.
• You can use a mixer
• (1) Divide the mix in two bowls. Stir the chocolate powder into the mixture in one of the bowls.
• (2) When putting the mixtures together use a fork and swirl it around a few times to create a marble effect.
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1 cup yogurt 1 cup oil 4
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eggs
17 Flour Sugar Baking powder Using a mixer Greased pan 1 2
gente come depois de colocar
forno.” Pina
“A
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Este é o sequilho que eu faço com a minha avó.” Giovanna
20 1 cup flower ¼ cup sugar 75g butter ½ teaspoon vanilla extract Mix all the ingredients 20
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TAPIOCA WAFFLES
Looking at the recipe with Ms. Branquinho
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4 tablespoons tapioca flour • 3 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese • 1 tablespoon requeijão
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Honey, by Luke
“I liked the cheese.” Nina
“I liked the strawberry.” Eleonora
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“Olha o tamanho desta melancia!” Pina
“É uma melancia de verdade” Giovanna
the juice inside the plastic bag • Put inside the freezer and wait one day • Enjoy! 27
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Step one
Step two Step three
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Step four
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“O dele derreteu porque o sol é muito quente e o sol faz as coisas derreterem.” Nina
INGREDIENTS
• 1 cup flour
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ cup milk
• 2 eggs
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I know this recipe by heart. I used to make it every afternoon with my son, Otto, during the pandemic” Ms. Hutchinson
• 1 tablespoon powder
TOPPINGS
• Banana
• Honey
• Jam
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. Pour in a frying pan using a ladle. Flip it when you see bubbles in the middle of the pancake.
Number of servings: 10 small pancakes
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Frying pan, by Luke
Panqueca na frigideira, by Nico
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“É uma panqueca grandona.” Pina
CHOCOLATE PANCAKES
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INGREDIENTS
• 70g rice flour
• 20g oatmeal
• 50g tapioca flour
• 20g chocolate powder
• 2 eggs
• 100ml coconut milk
• 100ml plant milk
• 2 tbsp honey
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp baking powder
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and out the dough in the waffle machine.
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Number of servings: 4 waffles
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Bowl, by Erick Honey, by Nina
We shared our waffles with Tadpoles and they said they were delicious!
APPLE CRUMBLE
INGREDIENTS
For the crumble
• 1 teacup flour
The recipe is from one of the books we borrowed from the public library we visited! We made it to eat for dessert after lunch, it was delicious.”
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• ½ teacup brown sugar
• ½ teacup oatmeal
• 8 tablespoons butter (room temperature)
• A pinch of salt
For the filling
• 4 big apples
• ½ teacup brown sugar
• ¾ teaspoons cinnamon
HOW TO MAKE IT
• Preheat the oven to 190°C
• Mix flour, sugar, oatmeal and salt in a bowl. Add the butter and mix until smooth
• In another bowl mix the pieces of apple (peeled), brown sugar and cinnamon
• Put everything in a tray building layers
• Bake for 45-50 minutes
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ELO Biblioteca Álvaro Guerra
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Angelica, librarian, selected a set of books about cooking to our visit at the library
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GLOSSARY
Pictures taken by Kittens students
Flour
Coconut powder
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Wooden spoon Measuring cup Bowl Vanilla extract and honey
Frying pan Spatula
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Kittens 2022/ 2023
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Arthur Farah Carolina Ruah Eleonora Parente Erick Zhou Gabriela Branquinho Giovanna Bonfim Isabelle Toledo Leonardo Magrin Luke Rodrigues Marta Bianchi Nicolas Massaguer Pina Paolone
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