Gingerbread House - DT activities This unit can be used alongside the story of Hansel and Gretel. It provides opportunities for the children to use food technology to create a food product linked to their storytelling Included: • Planning • Posters – UK’s top 20 Biscuits, History of Gingerbread Houses, recipes, sensory vocabulary • Worksheets • Target sheet (LO) These activities encourage children to investigate different types of biscuits and find out the origins of the gingerbread house. They use recipes to practice how to make different biscuits. Then taste and describe the appearance, texture, smell and taste of each biscuit, and find out which one everyone liked best using a tally chart. Children practise how to make a house paper template and how to follow a recipe to create a gingerbread house. Then they design their own gingerbread house creating a new template, illustrating how their gingerbread house will look, list ingredients and equipment, write in which order they will work, and record their evaluation. For additional resources based on the story of Hansel and Gretel, please check my shop Marie’s Teaching Resources :) For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources Thanks for looking :)

Goldilocks and the Three Bears / DT / Food / Yummy Porridge! This unit can be used alongside the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. It provides opportunities for the children to use food technology to create a healthy food product suitable for a character and link it to their storytelling. Planning included! Children investigate the characteristics and properties of different varieties of ingredients to add different flavours to a basic dish – porridge – compare 5 recipes and develop vocabulary to describe the appearance, taste, smell and texture. They learn basic food preparation techniques to design and make a yummy porridge! Includes vocabulary sheet. For updates go to my Facebook and Instagram pages @ Marie’s Teaching Resources Thanks for looking :)

Pirate themed worksheets - to look at the differences between fiction and non-fiction text. Activities includes: • Looking at fiction and non-fiction book covers; explaining the differences • Asking questions before reading non-fiction text to find answers • Writing 4 facts from reading and identifying features of non-fiction text • Using a glossary and record meaning of words • Writing a book review (fiction or/and non-fiction) • Writing a non-fiction text which has a heading, sub-heading, caption and picture • Explaining what the story of ‘How I became a Pirate’ is about (answer questions) I have also created Pirate themed worksheets for planning and writing own pirate story. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-pirate-story-writing-worksheets-13049005 For updates go to my Facebook page – Marie’s Teaching Resources Thanks for looking :)