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* If you don't have play dough or pizza is not on the Menu please just make pizzas using paper. 1.Watch the videos of Mrs Smyth and Alfie (her great home-schooling helper). 👨‍👩‍👧 Either: 1. With a parent or guardian's approval, follow the simple recipe to make homemade play dough. 2. If you already have play dough you can use this. If you don't have any of the ingredients please make some pizzas, which you can cut up to explain and show me 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8. You might be lucky to have an actual pizza dough recipe that you could make or a pizza in the freezer you could ask a parent to cook for lunch. Then you could record with help how your pizza can be sliced up. Do not do any cooking or cutting without an adult!! Recipe: 1 cup of flour 1/4 cup of salt 3/4 cup of warm water 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil Food colouring - optional Step 1 - Measure the flour and salt and mix together in a bowl Step 2 - Add the warm water and a few drops of food colouring (optional) Step 3 - Mix the ingredients together and add the vegetable oil Step 4 - Store in a container or plastic baggie when not using 2. ✋🏽 Using your hands, form the dough into a ball and make into a flat disk like a pizza. 3. 📏 Using a ruler or other straight edge, make lines on your "pizza" to show the following fractions: 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 4. Tap to add to our journal 5. Take a video of your play dough and explain how you made each of the fractions 6. Tap the green check to add to your journal Extensions: Let's double the recipe. How would you do that? Write down new recipe. Why: