Cooking: Recipe for Lemonade

Have you ever tasted a lemon? Lemons taste SOUR! Different foods have different flavours. Try this easy recipe with help from your mom or dad, and taste two different flavours!

• Taste a small piece of lemon. How does it taste? (sour)

• Taste a little bit of sugar. How does it taste? (sweet)

Important Vocabulary:

There are a lot of new action words in this recipe. Be sure to talk about these words with your child, and explain what they mean. When possible, demonstrate the action (e.g., from a safe distance, show your child the boiling water).

• pour (tip liquid from one container into another)

• liquid (something wet)

• solid (something firm or hard)

• boil (cook something until it is so hot that it bubbles)

• dissolve (turn something solid into liquid)

• cool (make something not hot anymore)

• squeeze (press all of the liquid out of something)

• chill (make something cold)

• serve (give to someone)

"Little Chef" by Matt Stine and Elisabeth Weinberg.

This is a story about a little chef named Lizzie who tries her very best to make a delicious meal for her grandma.

After you watch the video, talk about the story together. You might ask the following questions:

• Who are the characters in the story? (a little girl named Lizzie, her Mom, her Dad, and her Grandma)

• What is a CHEF? (someone who cooks delicious food)

• Where does a chef do all the cooking? (in a kitchen)

• When do we eat breakfast? (in the morning)

• Why do we put salt and pepper in food? (to make it taste good)

• What part of our body do we use to taste things? (our tongue)

• When do we eat dinner? (in the evening)

• Have you ever tasted sweet potato?

• What are INGREDIENTS? (all of the foods you mix together to make something)