Presenter Liz Kitchen with songs, rhymes and a story with a cooking theme.
Suggestions for use in the classroom
Listening for individual sounds
Listen all around: kitchen sounds. Individual sounds: water from tap, washing up, food mixer.
Rhyme/song
Pat a cake pat a cake baker鈥檚 man
Make me a cake as fast as you can
Pat it and prick it and mark it with B
And put it in the oven for baby and me!
Teach a simple sequence of pat-a-cake clapping actions to accompany the rhyme. Children stand opposite each other and clap own hands together once, then clap both against their partners hands, and so on. Once children have got the hang of this, try introducing cross-over claps (left-hand to left hand, right hand to right hand). When the rhyme is familiar, substitute different children鈥檚 initials for the B, e.g. Pat it and prick it and mark it with P鈥 And put it in the oven for Paula and me鈥
Story - Stop Baking, Betty!
Once upon a baking time鈥 If possible, bring in three large buns to illustrate the story and help with the counting.
Follow-up ideas
- Make a cake or some currant buns
- Create a baker鈥檚 shop role-play corner and making a range of play-dough cakes and buns to sell (include role-play print such as labels and prices, receipts, shop sign, etc.)
- Make junk models of Betty鈥檚 amazing mixing machine.
See the Teachers' Notes (pdf) below for more suggestions.
Song video: 'I am the baker man'
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