Expressing Ourselves – Making Pancakes

Ms. Angie enjoys expressing herself through the preparation of food. She likes to cook with and for her family. She read the story ‘The Pancake’. Next, we talked about the different ingredients and appliances we might need to make pancakes. She chose to make pancakes as it was a special Pancake Day in her home country, the United Kingdom.

  • Alejandra “Like the Micky pancake.”
  • Freida “I made just at home.”

The students took turns to make the pancake.

Step 1 Put the flour inside the bowl.

Step 2 Put the eggs.(Crack it first!!)

Step 3 Take turns to mix the eggs and flour.

Step 4 Use the electronic mixer to mix the batter.

Step 5 Add the milk.

  • Lawrence “My mum has it at home.”
  • Freida “It turns. Then it’s like an ice-cream.”
  • Ruby “It looks like cream.”
  • Charlotte “It’s cool.”
  • Nicolas “Super. How fast is it?”
  • Ruby “Now we need put the butter. This is the butter.”

Step 6 Put butter in the pan and put the things we mixed in the pan.

“What do you notice?”

  • Freida “Melt. Because it’s super hot with the butter. We put it nice and warm. It’s because a hot. Something hot. You cut it and yummy.”
  • Lawrence “It’s like oil.”
  • Michelle “It’s like cookie.”
  • Nicolas “It’s smells so good.”
  • Charlotte “It’s so interesting.”
  • Ruby “It’s melting because it’s hot. It looks like blue.”
  • Si Hyun “It’s magic.”
  • Ethan “Cool.”
  • Amber “Wow.”
  • Charlotte “我觉得这个很方便。”[I think this is very convenient.]
  • Ruby “It’s getting yellow. Yellow magic.”
  • Nicolas “It looks like egg. Do you know my German grandma had a strawberry pancake machine? You put in, you can have strawberry pancake.”
  • Ruby “My one is blueberry machine. We put blueberry in.”
  • Amber “The colour is different.”
  • Nicolas “Black and orange mix together. That’s smells like a super-duper pancake.”

Step 7 Flip the pancake.

  • Freida “My mum did it.”
  • Alejandra “Yum, yum.”

“Why do we flip the pancake?”

  • Nicolas “Throw up.”
  • Ruby “So get nice and crispy.”

“Why not sticky?”

  • Freida “Because the butter.”
  • Seungbin “Yummy.”

The students then were able to choose their pancake topping. Their choices included strawberry, blueberry or chocolate.

Next, they ate the pancake they made.

Lastly, they washed the dishes and cleaned up their working space.

  • Freida “I eating pancakes. It said a lot of ingredients.”
  • Felix “We do pancakes. We need butter and eggs to make a pancake. Put the eggs, 2.”
  • Sarah “Pancakes. Eggs, 2. Egg, strong and broke. And then in big (Sarah used her hands to show the shape of the container)
  • Teacher “Bowl?”
  • Sarah “Yes. Smack. And smack too messy. Smell it. It’s pancakes. Yummy.”

https://twitter.com/NISPreKK1/status/1107554291064029184

The Directions:

https://twitter.com/NISPreKK1/status/1107555024962355201

A recipe for Pizza:

https://twitter.com/NISPreKK1/status/1107555579503894528

SLO’s

  • follow a sequence of events
  • explain a process
  • question to find out more
  • listen to others
  • build on others’ ideas
  • take turns
  • complete tasks independently
  • used drawing, writing and pictures to explain their understanding

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