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- 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.
Pancake time!
- Jam sandwich recipe
- Shopping list
- Making pancakes
- Writing a recipe for Granny
Pancake time!
- Sandwich recipe
- Shrove Tuesday
- Order ingredients
- Writing a pancake recipe
Pancake time!
- Read Mr Wolf’s Pancakes, until page 15. Identify the different types of writing included in the story, i.e. shopping list, recipe, signs, labels. Ask children to say what a recipe is, why people use them and why they are useful. Say that Mr Wolf needs the children’s help to make pancakes.
- Read Mr Wolf’s Pancakes, until page 19. Display storyboard (resources). Retell story. Discuss why each character chose not to help. Identify how Mr Wolf feels; children justify suggestions.
- Re-read Mr Wolf’s Pancakes, until page 19. Consider what fillings Mr Wolf could use to turn the pancakes into a healthy/unhealthy snack. Encourage children to identify their most/least favourite.
- Perform Mix a Pancake for another class!
Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: Mix a Pancake (resources)
Share the poem and rehearse at suitable times throughout the week, e.g. start/end of the day. Encourage the children to vary the pitch and tone of their voice as they rehearse to emphasise the actions words, e.g. mix, stir, fry. Support the children to learn and perform the poem in small groups.
Gingerbread instructions
- Gingerbread Man recipe
- Muddled recipe
- Gingerbread Man trap
- Strega Nona