Books to Share
- Read Ketchup on your Cornflakes? several times and encourage the children to join in with the repeated pattern of language. Children identify and share their favourite/ least favourite meals.
- Tuesday: Read a selection of pages from Ketchup on your Cornflakes? Say: Do you like gravy… Children finish the sentence. Model using question intonation. Repeat with Do you like ice-cream…
- Wednesday: Read The Giant Jam Sandwich. Notice it includes pairs of rhyming words that are at the end of each line. Read the book again encouraging children to join-in and read the rhyming words. Identify if children like sandwiches and the fillings they like most/ least. Encourage children to use descriptive language, e.g. I love ham sandwiches cut into small triangles made by my granny.
- Read The Giant Jam Sandwich. Support children to share times they have made a sandwich; identify the ingredients they used, utensils they needed and the method they followed.
Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: As Tasty as a Picnic by Celia Warren (see resources).
Share the poem and rehearse at suitable times throughout the week, e.g. start/end of the day. Help children to vary the pitch and tone of their voice as they rehearse to emphasise words and phrases. Children perform this poem as a whole class or in small groups to the headteacher or another class in school.