Lesson Four – Party Cookies

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explain and model how to follow a set of instructions to prepare and bake some cookies that contain different coloured dried fruit toppings.
The class can identify and describe the properties of the materials that can be combined together when following a recipe to make some cookies for a special family meal.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to follow a set of instructions to prepare and bake some cookies that contain different coloured dried fruit toppings
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and define vocabulary words that can be used to describe different foods and a shared reading text to describe the format and structure of a set of instructions about how to make a type of food.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to follow a set of instructions to make cookies using different coloured dried fruit toppings.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe some of the different colours that can be used when buying, preparing and making foods for a range of meals. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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