Pretend Soup
by Mollie Katzen
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Quack and Count
Pretend Soup allows children to take the lead in various breakfast, snack, and dinner recipes. Children will measure, mix, cut, and prepare ingredients.
Resources for Pretend Soup:
Full Book Review (English)
Full Book Review (Spanish)
Brief Book Review (English)
Brief Book Review (Spanish)
Satisfy your taste buds with 19 different kid friendly recipes!
Math Connections:
Spatial relationships Counting
Measurement Fractions
Cause and effect Sequencing
Time Estimating
Comparisons
Activities to Do Together:
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Try some of the recipes in the book.
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Make up some recipes of your own with your child.
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Compare different measurements like a teaspoon versus a tablespoon, a quarter of a cup versus a half of a cup.
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Double a recipe.
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Figure out if you have enough ingredients to make a certain recipe.
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Estimate the amount of time it will take to complete the recipe before you begin. Keep track of how long it actually takes.
Extension Questions:
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Have you cooked before? What did you make? Describe what you did first, next, and last.
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Do you think the order of the steps and ingredients in a recipe matter? Why or why not?
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If a recipe will feed 2 people, what would you need to do to feed 4 people? If a recipe will feed 8 people, but you only want to feed 4 people, what would you do?
Vocabulary for Building Math Concepts:
1/4, 1/2, 3/4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, center, cup, halfway, minutes, on, pound, side, tablespoon, teaspoon, top