Every year at Mother’s Day, when I’m in my kindergarten year, I have my five and six-year-old students compile a cookbook for their mothers. I love hearing how they explain their mothers’ best recipes! In recent years, my class has decided to write out the recipes themselves. It’s so sweet to watch a kindergarten student’s face and he or she thinks about Mama; how she cooks the best food just the way her children like it, how she makes sure it’s just right, how she serves it up with the love that only a mama can dish out. And it’s so funny to hear a kindergarten student’s interpretation of Mama’s cooking! 🙂

This past year’s recipes did not disappoint me. I have provided them for your reading pleasure just as they were phonetically spelled. As a teacher in her eleventh year of reading kindergarten spelling, I had no trouble reading the following recipes. I will point out that my kindergarten students were allowed to decide when they wanted to use periods or exclamation points to punctuate their sentences, and some were very liberal with the exclamation points! If you would like a translation, please leave a comment below and I will gladly translate for you. 🙂

Happy Mother’s Day from Mrs. Givens’s class!

Soups 

Soop
Ingredients:
Solt
Chikin
Milk
Brokuli
What To Do:
She puts the soop in a bol. She puts it on the stov for a minit! It is good!

Soop
Ingredients:
Wotr
Chikn
noodls
What To Do:
She puts it in a pot. She koox it for 15 minits. Then she puts sot and pepr in it.

Soop
Ingredients:
Chickin
Noodls
Cerits
What To Do:
She pors it olt of the can. She puts wotr in it. She puts it in the micrwav. She puts solt and pepr!

Italian Dishes

Pizzu
Ingredients:
Ches
Sos
Peprrones
What To Do:
She puts it in the uvin! It taces a long time. It tastis good!

Muskety (fancy for “Spaghetti”)
Ingredients:
Sos
Muskety Noodls
mete
What To Do:
She kooks it one at a time! She kooks it on the stuv! It tasx ubalt five awrs!

Spgete
Ingredients:
Metbolls
Noodlls
sos
What To Do:
She puts the noddlles in a pot. The puts the metbolls in a seprit pot! She puts the sos in the pot with the noodlls. Me and My sistrs get to test the noodlls! We thro them on sumthing in the kichin and see if they stik!

Puscetiy (fancy for “Spaghetti”)
Ingredients:
Noodls
Puscetiy sos
mit
What To Do:
She tex the nootls. They are hord. She puts them in a pan for 10 awrs. She adz sot end pepr end a little sos. I love ite!

Luzonu
Ingredients:
Black oluvs
Red sos
noodls
What To Do:
She puts it in a pan. She puts the black oluvs and she puts it in the uven for 30 menes then she puts the noodls!

Sbugete (fancy for “Spaghetti”)
Ingredients:
Hot wotr
Niwtls
Sos
What To Do:
She gets it rede! She puts it n a pot! It is there for 8 minis! She puts sos on it. It is dun!

American Dishes

Hot Dogs
Ingredients:
Weenees
Buns
Kechup
Musterd
What To Do:
Frst she puts it in the mikerwave for three minis. Thin she puts it on a bun! Thin she puts kechup. It is dlishus!

Chicin
Ingredients:
Solt
Pepr
Chicin Scin
A Chicin
What To Do:
Frst he gets it awt of the bag. Or he kils a chicin. He puts it in a pan. He puts it in the uvin intil it is dun.

Chicin Pot Piy
Ingredients:
Chicin
Vegtbls
Crust
What To Do:
She puts it in the micrwav. She lets it cool. Thin we ete it!

MeteLofe
Ingredients:
Ketchup
Solt
Meat
What To Do:
She puts double meat in it. She puts ketchup all on the top and cooks it in the oven. She cuts it in half and they fall apart ,and it tastes really good.

Desserts

Kacke (“Cake”)
Ingredients:
Kacke Mix
Egg
Olv oyl
What To Do:
She puts kacke mix in thin she puts eggs in thin she puts olv oyl and she mixis it in this she puts the kacke in the uvin in thin it is redey!

Cake
Ingredients:
Eggs
Cake mix
Shugere
Ising
What To Do:
She puts in eggs. And mixes it up. Than she puts in cake mix than she puts in shugere then she puts it in the uvin!

Cake
Ingredients:
Shoogr
Ising
Eggs
Milk
What To Do:
Frst she mixes things up. She puts it in the oven for 10 awrs. She puts shtrowberey ising on it. It is yumey!