The Great Bake Debate

This week the Reception children have been reading and retelling the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’. In the story the Little Red Hen asks the other animals to help her grow ingredients and help bake the bread. Through each stage the animals say they will not help until the end when they offer to help eat the bread. The children have enjoyed reenacting the story and there have been some fantastic discussions over whether the Little Red Hen should have shared the bread or not!

Unlike the animals in the story, the children demonstrated their reciprocity skills as they began baking their own bread rolls. The children used their phonic knowledge to read the recipe and then made sure they had washed their hands.

As the year has gone on, the children are becoming much more independent when cooking, following the step-by-step instructions to make the dough. The children loved kneading the dough and this was a great workout for our fingers. With the smell of baking bread floating in the classrooms and flour on our uniforms, the bread rolls rose magnificently!

“It’s like play dough.” Siana

“1,2,3,4 spoons of flour.” Roman

“It looks like porridge.” Archie