baking bread

Dignity Pre-school Mafubira, Jinja ,Uganda

Education for Transformation

Baking Bread with Preschoolers

Recipe for 1 group

Needed Items:

Wheat flour, yeast, salt, sugar, warm water, oil

2 small bowls, 1 bigger bowl, 2 cups,

2 Table spoons, 1 tea spoon,

1 unbreakable thermos,

cloth, knife, cutting board, baking tray, oven,

hand washing facility, dish washing facility

Recipe for 1 group

Mix it together in a cup:

1 TS wheat flour

1 ts sugar

1 ts dry yeast

4 TS warm water

wait a bit to let it raise

Mix together in a bowl: 1cup (250g ) wheat flour ½ ts salt Stir Add : 1small cup of warm water ( 80ml) the yeast -flour-sugar mixture of the 1st cup Stir, then use your hand to make the dough When the dough comes off the bowl easily, place it in a smaller bowl, cover it with a cloth and wait for it to raise for about 1 hour. Oil a baking tray Divide the dough in 8 pieces, and form small rolls. Place them on the tray with some distance in between, allow to raise a bit more.. Bake for about 30 min. in the oven. Remove and let them cool.

Baking with the Teachers

Lesson Planning

Testing the outcome

Introduction of the Baking Project during Morning Circe Time

Product

Process

Demonstration for the first group of 14 children, half of the class of 5-Year Olds

Washing hands!

Children collect the ingredients they need from the front table in a small bowl

Children work in groups of 5

The chart helps to remember the procedure

Clean up!

Copy the recipe

ENJOY!