Bambini in Cucina
NBCS
Learning for me is always a journey.
I see myself as facilitator & co
learner.
Getting Real with Languages
• How do we make it real for students?
• How do we promote language development ?
• How do we increase engagement ?
Connect
CREATE AUTHENTIC OPPORTUNITIES
TAKE IT BEYOND THE CLASSROOM WALLS
SHARE
MAKE
TASTE
TAKE A RISK
QUESTION
APPRECIATE
VALUE
RAISE THE BAR
EXPECT MORE
DISH OUT RESPONSIBILITY
“Bambini in Cucina”
• What’s it all about ? Italian language and
culture., namely food.
• Students’ Background knowledge & experiences.
• Students’ own ethnicity and family traditions
with food and recipes. Raising awareness,
realising its value, appreciation, curiousity and
further questioning.
• Who ?Stage 3 – mix of Yr.5 & 6
• Connecting with a chef in local communityCavallino Restaurant in Terrey Hills: Chef Roberto.
• Duration: one Term
In a nutshell
An intercultural experience of Italian language and food.
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The learning experiences take a blended learning approach integrating ICT ,
cooking and the four macro skills.
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3MBC. 2 demonstrates understanding of significant cultural values and practices in
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Italian-speaking communities
Taking it beyond the classroom/space’s walls.
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Organisation: Week A will be spent in the Galley Kitchen cooking, Week B will be
in the classroom as a language intensive, preparation, review, research and
consolidation time. 30mins will be spent online and/or with the teacher. This part
of the Learning Session will be facilitating regional cuisine knowledge, vocabulary
prep, look at Class Forum responses and add next reply, recipe prep in advance for
the next week. The other 30mins will be their PBL [Project Based Learning]
session. The project timeline will be for 8 weeks. The focus is one region’s cuisine
and a scaffold for presentation is set up in advance.
The FORUM
school intranet, secure site, moodle password
I chose this tool as a major form of qualitative
feedback.
1. Reflect on experience
2. A place to share eg. background knowledge
3. Ask questions
4. Give opinion
5. Connect with others, even our chef.
Our first Forum Post
This is our class forum where each
week everyone needs to contribute
by either :
• reflecting on the cooking
experiences,
• share great recipes,
• share new learning about
vocabulary we've tried
• ask each other questions about
Italian recipes we've tried
• encourage each other positively
both about our cooking and
Italian language skills
• Buon Divertimento
Week 6
Interviewing
Chef Roberto
by Imma
Buono Saturday, 28
May 2011,
08:38 PM
What did you find most interesting about Roberto's responses ?
were you surprised by any of them ?
What did you think of our volunteers' yummy Tiramisu` ? Remember to thank
them.
Some responses….
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It was great to meet Chef Roberto and to
hear his stories and recipes. I found it
interesting that his parents were not chefs
but he was inspired by his grandparents
and most of all his love of food!
• I found seeing Chef Roberto was cool
because not other much other schools get
to have this experience so it was
awesome.
Chef~
• hi guys i am roberto.....
i want to apologize in advance for all my
spelling mistakes!!! thank you all for your nice
comments about me,i will be back with you in
the kitchen next tuesday for a nice "contorno"
that your very nice teacher Imma
organized!!!!
I want to share with you my tiramisu' recipe:
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5 egg yolk
5 table spoons of sugar
5 white of egg
500 g of mascarpone cheese
200 ml pure creme
300 g savoiardi biscuits
150 ml coffee with a shot of amaretto liquer
100 g shave choccolate
mix the egg yolk with sugar until it becomes frothy
and creamy.Add the mascarpone.wipe your creme
and white egg(separate) and add to the
mascarpone really gently...
dip the biscuits inside the coffee and layers up your
bowl with biscuits and your mascarpone mix..Finish
off with shave choccolate.
Keep in the fridge for 2 hours and serve it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you everyone and see you soon.......
Do you have a special family recipe ?
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Week:
5 Your
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Imma
Buono
Mond
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May
2011,
09:04
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Do you have a special family recipe which has been passed down to you ? Maybe it's
grandmother's special cake or biscuits ? Have you learnt how to make it or helped make
it ? When do you tend to eat it ? eg. Christmas or special celebrations.
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Tell us about it.
My dad has taught me how to make gnocchi. His mum taught him. I like to have gnocchi
with a basil pesto sauce. We also make our own pasta sauce and the first time I helped
with that I was six years old. Our entire family would come to our house and that means
all of my cousins, aunts and uncles ! We would make 3-500 bottles of salsa which we
then divide up amongst our families. It's loads of fun.
My mum has taught me how to make our special Easter cake. Maestra Buono.
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my family recipe is apricot chicken and i can make it myself!!! And veggies
on the side with a drink
MY family recipe is my nannas short bread! She makes lovely cookies and
gives them to us.
in my family a chocolate cupcake is passed down and i have not made it but
i hope to make and it is yummy
my family recipe is tripple chocolate brownies
you put in 2 dark chocolate bars in then 1 white chocolate bar then milk
chocolate bar. it's awesome.
My family recipe is a berry cake that my Gran tought me how to make. We
have it every Christmas!!!
One of my famililies recipies is a boiled fruit cake. This recipe has been
passed down from my grandmother to my mum then to me. My mum has
recently made this cake for afternoon tea. It is so easy and i hope my mum
will teach me soon.
I do not have a family recipe. But i would like one.
My Great Auntie taught my family to make Zucchini Fritters, we usually
have them at family gatherings. My Nan has tough me and my family to
make Meatballs, we usually make them at BBQ's or family gatherings. My
Nan has taught me and my family to make Stuffed Eggplant, we usually
have them at BBQ's.
I have had my nonna’s spagghetti and my mum has got the recipe. But
when my mum tries to make she can't get that sort of flavour the same as
my nonna’s can because she doesn't try it often. My nonna also makes a
sort of biscuit that is really hot when it comes out of the oven. The biscuit
has a raw egg in the middle but then it cooks after a while and the biscuit
softens and it is delicious but my nonna only cooks it on Easter day we
don't have the recipe though.
I have a family recipe that got passed to my mum and then passed on to
me it is a Spanish chilli dish I was about ten when i started cooking this type
of dish and you can have it with anything you want it is really nice and
tasty.
One of my favourite family recipes comes from my chinese grandfather
which is tomato, beef, rice. In Cantonese it's called faanke, ngauhyuhk,
faahn. It's a great winter dish. Another favourite dish is wonton soup. I help
wrap the filling into the pastry sheets and drop them in the hot water.
Do you think this program should run
again next year ?
Week 9
Survey:
Bambini
in Cucina
by Imma
Buono Tuesday,
21 June
2011,
04:58
PM
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Yes, I do think this program should run again because every second
week i would be excited and i was looking forward to eating what we made!!
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My favourite cooking session was today, how to facciamo un contorno
delizioso (make a delicious side dish): the patate con prosciutto, mozzarella and
thyme was bellissimo and the pesto fantastico!
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Yes, definitely this course should run again, it was a great experience
and we were very lucky to have the opportunity to learn Italiano in the kitchen with
Chef Roberto. Grazie mille Maestra Buono!
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The session I enjoyed most was the Tiramsu' session.
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Yes I think this course should run again next year because it was really
fun experience and I would definitely would like it to continue.
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I definitely think this course should run again next year because other
people will get a chance of cooking some yummy Italian foods and also get to enjoy
it afterwards.
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I have learnt how to make tiramisu and learnt that working in a group
is important.
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I think that an Italian's attitude about food is that they think it is very
impotant to them. They all love cooking. And if an Italian wasn't allowed to cook
food their life would never be the same.
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Italian attitude about food- Italians like to eat alot of food because
they always have so many courses. I could not eat that much of food just yet.
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A chefs Journey- Chef Roberto has an awesome restaurant, is really
nice and can cook super yummy food. His food looks and tastes bellissimo.
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and best of all assaggia. A Chef's Journey: Meeting Chef Roberto was
inspiring as I love cooking too and hope one day to be a chef.
Write me a 1 sentence reply to each of these questions.
1. Which cooking session did you like the best and why ?
2. Do you think this course should run again next year , why ?
Tell us about what you’ve learnt
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I've learn't about chef Roberto's journey . He
started at 14 cooking at a pizza shop then he
moved on to become the boss of his own shop
hear in Australia
Italians attitude about food is that they love it.
I think the italians love food alot. I think it is a
big part of there life . I have learnt to make
tiramisu and pasta el forno. Some Italian verbs
are cucinare to cook, fare to make and taglia to
cut. Chef Roberto jouney stated in a pizza shop
when he was 14. Now he works at a restaurant
in Terrey Hills.
There are a lot of recipes that i have learned.
One of my favourite recipes that i have learned
to cook is bruschetta. Italians are very
passionate about food.
Italian recipes have interesting ingredients, are fun to
cook, delicious to eat and are great to make. Italian's
attitude about food: preparation and sharing family
meals is important to them, they are very passionate
and really love food. Italian verbs: It's been helpful to
learn the verbs while actually cooking in the kitchen.
Some examples are cucinare, aggiungere, taglia, premi
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I have learned a lot about the italian menus
such as Antipasto, Primi etc.
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I have learnt about working in a group and
making Italian food like Tiramisu
Italians attitude to food is that they love it. At an
Italian restaurant their menus are enormous.
They have Antipasti as there appetizers , primi
as their first course, secondi as second course
,contorni as side dishes and dolci as dessert
I have learnt lots about Italian verbs this term.
Italians attitude about: Italians LOVE food, they
are REALLY good at cooking and have ALOT of
food on their menus
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Meeting Roberto is probably the best thing
because he loves food and his accent is very
distincive. i think his love for food is immaculate
and i love that about him. Personally I would
love to be able to cook with him
Post reflection
• I ended up including The Forum at the start of the Week B session. It
helped to reorientate and set the desired tone and expectation for each
session. If students hadn’t had time to upload their post this was the
perfect opportunity. We usually ended up having a chat along the way. I
had the Forum on display on our big screen, making it a live experience.
• I would use that tool again in this way.
A few other elements in this blended learning
approach.
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The Passport linked to the Class Forum and also group work in the kitchen. These points go towards an
end of term certificate and the NBCS Challenge [merit system].However, I found it became cumbersome in
management. The students’ intrinsic motivation was what drove each session. I’ll rework the concept
more to mark our learning journey. Needs more thought.
Each lesson will begin with the Forum- a reflection time: rate the dish out of 10, what did you like about it
? not like ? Do you feel skilled enough now to try it at home ?
Use Graphic Organisers like KWL [post it notes]
Online formative quizzes-verbs e.g. Hot Potato quizzes. Take it in when you are ready.
Interactive Whiteboard resources: to help build food, recipes, geography, language skills including idioms
related to food.