Pretend Soup

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Quack and Count

by Mollie Katzen

Satisfy your taste buds with 19 different kid friendly recipes!

Topics: spatial relationships, counting, measurement, fractions, cause and effect, sequencing, time, estimating, comparisons

Activities To Do Together:

Try some of the recipes in the book.
Make up some recipes of your own with your child.
Compare different measurements like a teaspoon versus a tablespoon, a quarter of a cup versus a half of a cup.
Double a recipe.
Figure out if you have enough ingredients to make a certain recipe.
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:

Have you cooked before? What did you make? Describe what you did first, next, and last.
Do you think the order of the steps and ingredients in a recipe matter? Why or why not?
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

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