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1
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Pancakes Recipe
Directions:
1. Take 1 cup milk and pour it into a bowl
(or measuring cup).
2. Measure 1 cup flour.
3. Add the flour to the milk in the measuring

4. Stir the milk and flour.

5. Add 3 eggs.
6. Stir the eggs and milk and flour.
7. The stirred eggs and milk and flour
is called "pancake batter."

To cook the pancakes:

8. Pour 2 tablespoons of oil into a frying pan.
9. Heat the oil.
10. Pour 1/4 cup of the pancake batter into
the frying pan.
11. It will cook on one side. It will be brown.
12. Flip the pancake.
13. Cook it on the other side.
14. Serve hot with sugar on top.

Watch the
video
1. Video of Pancake flipping - Guiness Rcord for Highest Flip
2. What does ‘flipping’ mean?______________________________________
 3. ____ True or False? Bob Blumer set a Guiness world record by flipping 559
pancakes in a single hour.
4. How high was the world’s highest stack of pancakes?
Click here to see the world's highest stack of pancakes
5. What is a dosa?
Click the link below to see the world’s longest dosa. Can you find another picture of a big
dosa? http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/ahmedabad/Restaurant-claims-to-
have-made-worlds-longest-dosa/articleshow/4911510.cms
6. What is a crepe?
7. Click here for other pancake facts. Write the one you liked best.
Sunrise: early in the morning
from:
This is the way we take the milk, take the milk,http://www.flickr.co
take the milk.
This is the way we take the milk, so early in the
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morning!
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pour the milk.
This is the way we pour the milk, so early in the morning!

This is the way we measure the flour, measure the flour, measure the
flour.
This is the way we measure the flour, so early in the morning.

This is the way we add the flour, add the flour, add the flour,
This is the way we add the flour, so early in the morning!

This is the way we stir the milk and flour, the milk and flour, the milk
and flour.
This is the way we stir the milk and flour, so early in the morning.

This is the way we add three eggs, add three eggs, add three eggs.
This is the way we add three eggs, so early in the morning!

This is the way we stir the batter, stir the batter, stir the batter.
This is the way we stir the batter, so early in the morning!

This is the way we pour the oil, pour the oil, pour the oil.
This is the way we pour the oil, so early in the morning!

This is the way we pour the batter, pour the batter, pour the batter.
This is the way we pour the batter, so early in the morning!

This is the way the pancake cooks, the pancake cooks, the pancake
cooks.
This is the way the pancake cooks, so early in the morning!

This is the way we flip the pancake, flip the pancake, flip the pancake.
This is the way we flip the pancake, so early in the morning.
Sing to the melody of “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”
song
This is the way we sprinkle the sugar, sprinkle the sugar, sprinkle the
sugar.
This is the way we sprinkle the sugar, so early in the morning!

This is the way we eat the pancake, eat the pancake, eat the pancake.
This is the way we eat the pancake, so early in the morning!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179131831/ frying pan picture
http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi?
search=milk&img=6&cat=&bool= milk picture "Image Provided by Classroom Clipart"

“Stop pancake!” said “I rolled away

the people in the from the people in
auditorium.
Runaway Pancake But the pancake
off of the spatula, rolled faster, and they “I rolled around
Four women were could not catch him. and around your
hungry. and rolled out the teacher, and I will
door! “Stop pancake!” said roll away from
One had an egg. the people in the you.”
He rolled into the city. gym.
One had some milk. “Stop pancake!”
He rolled past a man. But the pancake all the students
One had some flour. rolled faster, and they said.
“Stop pancake!” said could not catch him.
One had some oil. the man.
He rolled past the “Quick students!
But the pancake rolled school bathrooms. Make a circle!”
Let’s make a pancake, said the teacher.
they said. faster, and the man
could not catch him. “Stop pancake!” said
the people in the “Make a circle!”
They poured the milk
into a bowl. He rolled past a tall bathrooms.
building. All the students
But the pancake ran and stood in a
They added the egg. perfect circle
“Stop pancake!” said rolled faster, and they
the people in the could not catch him. around the
They added the flour. teacher.
building.
They stirred the egg He rolled into our
But the pancake rolled classroom. “Walk closer to
and milk and flour me. Closer and
to make a good faster, and they could
not catch him. “Stop pancake!” said closer.”
pancake batter.
the teacher.
He rolled past a shop. The students
They poured the oil walked closer and
into the frying pan. But the pancake
“Stop pancake!” said rolled faster, and the closer to the
the people in the shop. teacher could not teacher.
They heated the oil.
catch him.
But the pancake rolled As they walked,
They poured some the circle got
batter into the frying faster, and they could He rolled round and
not catch him. round the teacher, smaller and
pan smaller.
When the oil was hot. faster and faster.
He rolled into a school.
“Why are you Soon the circle
The pancake cooked was very tight.
on one side. He rolled past the rolling?” asked the
school office. students.
There was no
They flipped the space between
pancake. “Stop pancake!” said The pancake said, “I
the people in the rolled away from the the students for
office. four women.” the pancake to
It smelled good! escape.
They cooked the But the pancake rolled “I rolled away from a
faster, and they could man.” “You rolled away
pancake on the other from the women,
side. not catch him.
“I rolled away from the man, the
He rolled past the the people in a tall people in the
It looked good and
brown! school cafeteria. building.”
building, shop,
“Stop pancake!” said “I rolled away from office,
They wanted to serve cafeteria,
it. the people in the the people in a shop.”
cafeteria. auditorium, gym,
“I rolled away from and bathrooms,
They got a plate.
But the pancake rolled the people in the
faster, and they could school office.” but you can’t roll
They tried to lift it with away from our
the spatula to put it on not catch him.
“I rolled away from teacher and us
the plate. because we
the people in the
cafeteria.” cooperate as a
team!”
“I rolled away from
the people in the The teacher
He rolled past the auditorium.” served the class
school auditorium. the pancake with
But suddenly, quick as sugar on top.
a flash, the pancake “I rolled away from
flipped He rolled past the the people in the
school gym. school gym.”
out of the frying pan,
Underline any new words in the story. Look up the definitions.

Find 5 pronouns. Underline them and write which noun they replaced.
Ex. But the pancake rolled faster, and they could not catch him.
they = the people, him = the pancake
1. _________________________________________ Find a comparative.
2. _________________________________________ ____________________
3. _________________________________________
4. _________________________________________ List superlatives in
5. _________________________________________ 1. ____________________________
the trivia
2. ____________________________
3. _____________________________
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Write their sentences with a present tense verb.

Underline five past tense verbs.

Speaking:
Did you
like the
story?
Why?

Resources

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http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids

"Image Provided by Classroom Clipart"

 Reading Comprehension Questions

1. What is the title of the story? Is it a good title? What title would you give the story?

2. What is the story about?

3. Is the story true? Did it really happen?

4. Who made the pancake? Why?

5. The pancake was rolling faster and faster. Why?

6. Where did he go?

7. Could anyone catch him?

8. What was the teacher’s idea?

9. What did the students do?

10.What was the main point of the story? Did it have a message to teach?

11.Describe the pancake. Is he friendly, playful, nice, silly, mean, funny, bored? Is the
pancake man a good person?

Draw your favorite scene from the story, or tell a different ending.

For further reading:

The Gingerbread Boy http://fairytales4u.com/story/gingerbr.htm
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type2025.html#colshorn is a site with several versions of
the Runaway Pancake.