We started off our morning chopping celery, carrots, broccoli, onions and potatoes. We put all the vegetables in a slow cooker with some chicken broth, garlic and seasoning.This involved turn taking, fine motor skills for chopping, showing caution while using a knife, pouring and some good conversations.
Our soup is ready to start heating up in the slow cooker. Later we will add milk, cream and flour to make our soup creamy!
While we were waiting for our soup to cook we made bread in our bread maker. Our classroom started smelling delicious.
The soup is finally ready. We are hungry after smelling the soup and bread cooking all day!
Some of us ate every bite and decided it was "the best soup ever"!
Some of us were unsure if we would like the soup at first. We took a "no thank-you bite" (That's when you take a bite of something new, decide whether or not you like it and then continue eating or politely say "no thank-you"). Most of us decided to keep eating!
The children asked us to post the soup recipe on our blog so they could have it at home:
~ Mrs. Pollreis
The love and care you all take for these kids warms my heart. Can take you all to Ottawa with us? :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful blog. Thanks for sharing the meaning of the "no thank-you" portion. I think that is a wonderful way of encouraging children to broaden their tastes without forcing the issue. Nice blog post, and thanks for helping children along the journey to great old fashioned slow food. I'm sure you had a wonderful day together.
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