ACTIVITY
Focus: To make a Gingerbread Man.
Key Scale points:
Knowledge and understanding of the world
(4) Investigate materials by using appropriate senses.
(5) Ask questions about why things happen. Look closely at similarities,
differences, pattern and change.
Curriculum context:
The children had listened to the story about The Gingerbread Man and were making
Gingerbread Man biscuits with the nursery nurse.
Resources:
Recipe and instruction cards.
Ingredients. Utensils, Cooker.
Outline of activity: number of children: 6 at a time
Children mix dry ingredients naming them. Observe how liquid changes the mixture
into dough. Flatten dough and roll out. Cut out biscuits, decorate and bake. Children
eat biscuits.
How the activity was introduced - learning objectives/intentions:
Know that squashing and rolling-out changes the shape of dough.
Know that dry ingredients will mix together.
Know that dry ingredients will stick together when mixed with liquid.
Assessment opportunities:
Children asking questions.
Children using appropriate vocabulary
Ability of children to sequence the activity. (See worksheet)