Making Pumpkin Soup

A group of Year 3 students read the book 'Growing Pumpkins.' After discussing how a pumpkin could be used as an autumn vegetable,  it was decided that making pumpkin soup would provide a fun way to learn about instructional writing (recipes) and the ingredients used to make this particular soup.
Before the ingredients were prepared, the children drew pictures of the ingredients and wrote the quantity of each item to be included in the recipe, beside the picture.  The recipe, with instructions for making, were then written into their writing books.

Here is a video of the process: 

These are the children’s reflections of the process:

Sithum: We made pumpkin soup. It tasted like chicken soup except it was hotter and yummier because we put in lots of delicious ingredients. I liked its flavour.

Nabin: We made pumpkin soup and this is what I thought of it.  I liked the flavour and the taste made my mouth water.

Aayush:  I liked it because it was hot and it was yummy.

Manav: The soup was creamy and mushy.  I liked the flavour. It was hot and tasty. I was excited.