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No School Friday (Good Friday)
Our first lab this week was French crepes served with homemade strawberry sauce. As a bonus lab before the long weekend we made white chocolate popcorn mix which is super easy to customize for at home. This was our first week back from Spring Break!
Our focus for the week's lab was on measuring accuracy with the biscuit method. Students made cheesy corn dogs using a cornmeal biscuit dough. This is our last week before Spring Break!
This week we are learning about food safety, particularly when working with raw chicken. Our lab this week is chicken fajitas, with a focus on knife skills and sanitation. This week is all about baking! We have another 2-day lab making overnight pizza with fresh dough. We are also making blueberry pancakes.
This week we learned about the different growing regions in BC using a map of BC's agriculture, fish and food provided by BC Agriculture in the Classroom. Our 2-day lab this week was veggie breakfast wrap, which was incredibly successful!
No school Monday for BC Family Day.
This week's focus was on knife skills and cuts. To practice our knife skills we made a fresh salsa with BC grown greenhouse tomatoes. Copies of all recipes can be found under the "Food Studies Recipes" tab at the top of this page. We have our first lab this week: real hot chocolate. Kitchen groups will choose between mint, mocha, malted and Mexican spice flavour. We will also have a chocolate lesson and tasting where students will try six different types of chocolate and take notes on the flavour of each.
Reminder to students that the signed welcome letters were due back last Friday, you can download a copy here (this is important for students with allergies or food restrictions). Copies of all recipes can be found under the "Food Studies Recipes" tab at the top of this page. Wednesday and Thursday are early dismissal days for parent-teacher conferences. There is no school Friday (professional development day) or Monday (BC Family Day). SAFETY, SANITATION and START-UP
This week we reviewed safety, sanitation and start-up. We watched a series of short videos to review main kitchen safety and sanitation topics then completed a kitchen tools treasure hunt activity. Our first lab will be next week. Welcome to a new quarter of exploratory classes at RMS! This week students will spend time getting to know their classmates and the daily routines in the Food Studies class. We will also begin navigating the enhanced safety and sanitation procedures that are an important part of our classroom learning this year. We will also go through the course outline and students will be given a welcome letter to share with their parent/guardian. This letter must be signed and returned in order for students to participate in upcoming cooking labs. 
FINAL WEEK OF QUARTER 2 CLASSES!
This week we completed two labs: overnight pizza and egg 'n cheese stackers. Students completed a course reflection which will be returned with your class duotangs where you will find copies of the recipes we made. All of the recipes are posted on my website as well, so try out some new recipes! |
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