English Reception Spring Lists, Instructions and Recipes

1. The Giant Jam Sandwich
2. Sandwich instructions
3. Ketchup on your Cornflakes?
4. Funny question

1. Sandwich ingredients
2. Sequence a story
3. Sandwich instructions
4. Comical questions

1. Recipe books
2. Role-play cafe
3. Bread van
4. Making 'bread'

1. 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.
2. 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…
3. 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.
4. 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.

Essential texts
Ketchup on Your Cornflakes? by Nick Sharratt
The Giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord

Websites
Make a toy car (bread van) from wikihow.com
Dye pasta from gingerbread-house.co.uk
World bread day from bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
The Little Red Hen from bbc.co.uk/teach
The Little Red Hen from Hamilton Trust
The Hands and Aprons Song from bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/

Resources
Props for a role-play café
Junk modelling kit for quite large vehicles
Ingredients for bread making, baking trays

1. Jam sandwich recipe
2. Shopping list
3. Making pancakes
4. Writing a recipe for Granny

1. Sandwich recipe
2. Shrove Tuesday
3. Order ingredients
4. Writing a pancake recipe

1. Supermarket role-play
2. Story stone
3. Shopping lists
4. Quiz time

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

Essential text
Mr Wolf’s Pancakes by Jan Fearnley

Websites
Chocolate Easter egg nests from bbc.co.uk/food
Props for a supermarket role-play from brighthubeducation.com
Pancake Rap from bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Vegetable Quiz from bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
3-D shape nets from fun-stuff-to-do.com
Shrove Tuesday from topmarks.co.uk

Resources
Ingredients to make pancakes
Scotch pancakes and several pans
Props for a role-play supermarket

1. Gingerbread Man recipe
2. Muddled recipe
3. Gingerbread Man trap
4. Strega Nona

1. Guided reading
2. Sequencing words
3. Trap the Gingerbread Man
4. Write instructions

1. Role-play kitchen
2. Sticky pasta
3. Gingerbread baking
4. Weigh it out

1. Show ‘The Gingerbread Man’ animated tale (see websites). Children join in with repeated refrain, i.e. Run, run as fast as you can etc. Enjoy the humour. Discuss why the Fox lied to the Gingerbread Man and consider if he’s trustworthy. Identify and describe the characters the Gingerbread Man meets.
2. Re-watch ‘The Gingerbread Man’. Consider how each character felt during the story and reflect on how that influenced their behaviour.
3. Say that the Old Woman and the Old Man are determined to stop the Gingerbread Man from escaping. Plan to trap the Gingerbread Man, e.g. First dig a large hole; Next cover it with leaves; Then wait for the Gingerbread Man to run over it; Finally pull him out and take him back home. Rehearse saying the plan several times, until children are confident
4. Re watch Strega Nona, enjoying the humorous ending to the story.

Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: If All the World Were Apple Pie (see resources). Share the traditional rhyme and rehearse at suitable times throughout the week, e.g. start/end of the day. Enjoy humour and ask children to add lines. If cars were…, If pencils were..., etc.

Essential text
A version of The Gingerbread Man

Websites
The Gingerbread Man from Hamilton Trust
Strega Nona (version 1) or Strega Nona (version 2) by Tomie de Paola from youtube.com
Gingerbread Man Counting game from topmarks.co.uk
Simon Says for the role-play kitchen from wikihow.com

Resources
Props for a role-play kitchen
Dried pasta in different shapes and sizes, black A4 card, white pencil
Ingredients for making gingerbread
Bucket scales, packaged ingredients, e.g. flour, sugar, pasta