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Noisy Sheep - Quiet Sheep

Senses

Make-It-Myself Recipes

Grade Level: Pre-k / K
Rating: Not Yet Rated

Synopsis:
Children make a food sheep snack and then listen carefully when eating it to decide whether the ingredients are noisy or quiet.

Activity Objectives:
Students will be able to:

• Use their senses to describe a head of cauliflower.
• Use right-to-left sequencing and follow a rebus recipe to assemble a Food Sheep.
• Taste a Food Sheep snack and decide whether each ingredient is a quiet or a noisy food.

Material and Advance Prep:

• Review the "Five Senses" poem
• Review How to Use a Make-It-Myself Recipe
• Print Food Sheep rebus recipe (PDF) and prepare recipe cards
• Ingredients for Food Sheep
• 2 heads of cauliflower (one to keep whole and one for the recipe)
• Cut each piece of string cheese into four equal pieces. Place on a plate.
• Wash, trim and break cauliflower into florets. Place on a plate. (Note: It's best if the bottom of each floret is flat so the cheese legs will adhere.)
• Put raisins on a plate
• Plates (1 per student)
• Napkins (1 per student)
• Plastic serrated knives (1 per student)
• 6 trays; arrange each Recipe Card and it's supplies on a tray
• Tasting Passports PDF
• Stickers or rubber stamp for Tasting Passports
• Review Take A Tasting Survey
• Optional: Food Matters Family Newsletter PDF (1 per student)

What to Do:

1. Recite the "Five Senses" poem. Have children point to each part of the body named in the poem as they listen.
2. Show children the head of cauliflower and name the vegetable. Pass the cauliflower around. Ask children use their senses to examine the cauliflower and then suggest words to describe how it looks, smells and feels. Show the children how to separate it into florets. Let children separate a floret if they want.
3. Have children wash their hands. Beginning with a group of 4 to 5 children, demonstrate the left to right sequence of making a Food Sheep. Let each child in the group make a Food Sheep. Repeat until everyone has made a sheep.
4. Have children guess which of the foods will be noisy and which will be quiet when they bite into them.
5. Conduct a "crunch" test. Have students try a taste of the cheese to see if it crunches. Have them try a raisin. Then have them try the cauliflower. Ask which food is noisiest and which is quietest?
6. Add Food Sheep to the Tasting Chart. When everyone has tasted his or her Food Sheep, take a tasting survey. Have the children help count and record the results.
7. Stamp or sticker the Tasting Passport for children who tasted the Food Sheep, even if they didn't eat the entire snack.
8. Have everyone help clean up.
9. Optional: Send home a copy of the Food Matters Family Newsletter.

Five Senses Poem
I have five senses,
Yes, I do.
I have five senses,
And so do you!
I have eyes to see,
And a nose to smell.
I have ears to hear,
And they hear quite well.
My tongue can taste,
All kinds of food,
And my hands can touch,
Oh, it feels so good!
I have five senses,
Yes, I do.
I have five senses,
And so do you!

Food Sheep
Use the following ingredients for each sheep. Adjust the amount of ingredients for this activity for the class size.
Yields 1 sheep

Ingredients

• 1 piece cauliflower
• raisins
• 1/2 piece string cheese cut into 4 equal pieces
• Cheese spread

Directions

1. Put the cauliflower on your plate.
2. Put 4 pieces of string cheese on your plate.
3. Cover the bottom of the cauliflower with cheese spread.
4. Attach the 4 pieces of cheese to the cauliflower to make legs.
5. Dip 2 raisins in the cheese spread and attach to make eyes.
6. Dip 1 raisin in the cheese spread and attach it to make a nose.

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