Cooking- Granola Bars

Ingredients

• 1 ¾ cups old-fashioned oats or quick-cooking oats

• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

• ½ teaspoon fine sea salt (if using regular table salt, scale back a bit)

• 2 cups mix-ins* (nuts, seeds, chocolate, shredded coconut or dried fruit)

• 1 cup creamy peanut butter or almond butter

• ½ cup honey or maple syrup

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Line a 9-inch square baker with two strips of criss-crossed parchment paper, cut to fit neatly against the base and up the sides. The parchment paper will make it easy for you to slice the bars later.

2. Place the oats in a large mixing bowl**. Add the cinnamon and salt, and stir to combine. Set aside.

3. Now we’ll blitz the mix-ins briefly in the food processor or blender (or, you can chop them by hand). Add any large nuts (like almonds or pecans) first and blitz for a few seconds. Then add the rest and run the machine for a few more seconds, until the ingredients are all broken up into pieces smaller than your pinky nail. Pour the mix-ins into the bowl of oats.

4. In a 2-cup liquid measuring cup, measure out the nut butter. Top with ½ cup honey and the vanilla extract. Stir until well blended. If you must, you can gently warm the liquid mixture on the stovetop or in the microwave, but make sure it’s close to room temperature before you pour it into the dry mixture (this is especially important if using chocolate, since it will melt).

5. Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients. Use a big spoon to mix them together until the two are evenly combined and no dry oats remain. This takes some arm muscles, but you can do it! If the mixture was easy to mix together, that’s a sign that you need to add some more oats—sprinkle in more oats until you can’t incorporate any more.

6. Transfer the mixture to the prepared square baker. Use your spoon to arrange the mixture fairly evenly in the baker, then use the bottom of a flat, round surface (like a short, sturdy drinking glass) to pack the mixture down as firmly and evenly as possible.

7. Cover the baker and refrigerate for at least one hour, or preferably overnight. (The oats need time to soak up some of the moisture so they aren’t sticky.) When you’re ready to slice, lift the bars out of the baker by grabbing both pieces of parchment paper on opposite corners. Use a sharp knife to slice the bars into 4 even columns and 4 even rows.

8. Wrap individual bars in plastic wrap or parchment paper (if you store them all together, they will stick to one another). Bars keep well for several days at room temperature, a couple of weeks in the fridge, or several months in a freezer-safe bag in the freezer for best flavor.

L.I. I am learning to locate information in a text.

S.C.

• I can rewatch the video, or reread over the video transcript, to locate specific information needed

• I can be accurate in my answers and record full-sentence responses

Task 1: 20 minutes of silent reading

Task 2: BTN

Click on the link and watch episode 24 of BTN Classroom Edition.

https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/

Task 3: Choose one set of questions to answer. The questions are posted on the Grade 6 Google Classroom page. Write your answers in your literacy workbook.

Task 4: Upload a photo of your workbook answers to the Google Classroom Reading assignment for today.

Spelling Test

Test for every word on the list, then correct. You could ask a family member to test you, or use the ‘look, cover, write, check’ method to test yourself.

Please complete your daily activities to have your project completed by the end of next week