'Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival' Mini Unit - Day 2

We continued our mini unit study of Mid-Autumn Festival by reading pages 8-12 in "Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival" by Eugenia Chu and Y.Y. Chan. This section is all about preparing for the festival!

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'Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival' Mini Unit Day 1

Author Eugenia Chu is at it again and this time she's teamed up with Y.Y. Chan and illustrator Eliza Hsu Chen to bring us an amazing reference book for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Just like "Celebrating Chinese New Year," this is an all-inclusive guide to the holiday including information about its history, legends, traditions, as well as instructions on how to make your own mooncakes and decorations.

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Mystery Recipe Exploration Summer 2023 - Salt Week

I was initially thrown by salt as the mystery ingredient this week. I mean, I use salt in almost every single recipe I make, but how do you really highlight it? Well, after a little researching and exploring, I discovered there's more to salt than meets the eye.

Here's a good article about salt's uses from Spruce Eats: Six Functions of Salt in Food. Our bodies need salt so one use is obviously as a nutrient, but it also helps preserve food and enhance the flavor by cutting bitterness or enhancing and balancing out sweetness. And I did not know you needed it in yeast breads for proper rise and structure! I always thought it was just for flavor!

So, using that article as inspiration, I've put together some ways to explore salt's different uses in this week's activity calendar, which you can download here:

Salt Week Activity Calendar

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Mystery Recipe Exploration Summer 2023 - Onion Week

My kids have always been interested in food and cooking. When they were little we spent tons of time in the kitchen messing around!

Now that they're older and we have a lot of activities outside of the house and more schoolwork that needs to get done, we sometimes forget to make time for cooking. So when we happened across the Mystery Recipe podcast from America's Test Kitchen, I knew it was the perfect inspiration for a series of food exploration and cooking activities!

First, a quick summary of the Mystery Recipe podcast. Each week there are 3 episodes focused on a specific ingredient. In the first episode, you get some clues and sounds to help you guess the ingredient. (Unfortunately, I spoil the surprise because I can't give you the activity calendar without saying what the ingredient is! But if you want it to be a surprise for the kids, don't say anything before they've listened to the first episode.) Anyway, at the end of the season, there is a mystery recipe you can cook along with ATK Kids which uses all the mystery ingredients!

Now onto my activity calendar. I figured why not share what we're doing with all of you! I have compiled things to help you and your kids learn, explore, and taste each week's mystery ingredient. Click the link below to download a copy of the activity calendar for onion week and follow along on Facebook to see what we've done during the week. And feel free to share your photos with us!

Onion Week Activity Calendar

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'Little Bun: A Bilingual Storybook About Feelings' Book Review - Multicultural Children's Book Day

I was very excited to be gifted a copy of "Little Bun: A Bilingual Storybook About Feelings" by Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett and Emily Blodgett to review for Multicultural Children's Book Day. Amanda is the founder of Miss Panda Chinese and is also the Chinese Language consultant on the Netflix show, Word Party.

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