Kitchen & Garden News

From Erin, Kristen R, & Tess, SAKGP team 

Claws, Bridges and a Rock! What is happening in the kitchen?

As Year 4 students continue to practise their three knife skills - 'Bear Claw', 'Bridge/tunnel' and 'Rock and Chop', they are developing core safety knife skills, that will support them not only for kitchen cooking classes, but developing life long skills.

Students display patience as they wait to have their turn. They observe and adhere to the kitchen rules when using and working around knifes, ensuring that they return the knife to the safety of the bench above their cutting board and not leaving it somewhere that could cause danger.

Year 4 are progressively displaying competent skills to slice, dice and chop their ingredients to the desired finish that compliments the meal that they will be using the produce in. This includes slicing long thin sticks of carrot, cucumber, red capsicum and red cabbage.  Or dicing up spring onions and other fresh herbs from the garden.  Finally chopping big bunches of fresh greens such as warrigal greens or spinach that has just been harvested for their class.

In the home kitchen

Please encourage your child to participate in the kitchen at home as the family dinner is being prepared. They are all now confident in washing and cleaning vegetables and fruits, and understanding that the clean up process occurs alongside the cooking so that the kitchen preparation area is left clean and tidy, and now with knife skills developing they can help with chopping, dicing or slicing vegetables and fruits for your meal.

Please ask them about what they enjoyed about their meal they prepared each week at school, what was new to them such as the tofu or rice paper noodles (vermicelli) we used that week, or if they are excited to be gaining their knife license by the end of this term.