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We continued today with a different group of children joining in. They were eager to write their own menus, helping to decide on a name for the restaurant, making a stove to cook on, making chef's hats and tracing around circles to create cookies and pizzas.

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Children are encouraged to recognise numbers 1 - 5.
Children are encouraged to recite numbers in order to 10.
Gingerbread men have been hidden in a tray of shredded paper. The children are encouraged to find and identify the numbers they have found.

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Children are encouraged to trace around a stencil of a Gingerbread Man and cut it out using scissors. They can then decorate them using a variety of materials and textures.

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Gingerbread men have been hidden in a tray of shredded paper. The children are encouraged to find and identify the numbers they have found.

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Last week, I noticed a group of children enjoying roleplaying in the home corner pretending to be customers, waiters, chefs, taking orders, cooking food in the kitchen and serving their customers.
So this week, linked to the year group's planning, the children will be encouraged to act out the scenario of a  restaurant, based on own first-hand experiences.

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Whole class reading of the story 'The Gingerbread Man'.
Children are encouraged to develop their listening and speaking skills.

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Children are encouraged to develop their finer motor skills by threading a variety of skewers, pipe cleaners, beads, buttons and colanders.

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Children are encouraged to hang numbered mittens on the line in the correct order. Can they identify any of the numbers?

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Soft play area

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Some children are encouraged to practice their names using writing cards.
Forming letters correctly.
Appropriate pencil grip.

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The chef cooking for her customers.

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Using the children's interest in role-playing at a restaurant/cafe, I placed a tablecloth and a plant on a table with a couple of chairs. The children then took over, using their initiative to collect more props from around the classroom.
The children were excited to set up the 'restaurant' role play area, adding more chairs, a baby's high chair and baby, crockery, a till, money, aprons and a chef's hat.
A few children wrote menus, deciding on the types of food they would like to serve, while another took orders.
One girl made a menu by using emergent writing marks, mimicking the style of adults.
The girls took it in turns to be the chef and waitress, using pots and utensils to cook and holding a note pad to scribble down the orders before going away to bring back food and drinks.
Money was also being used by the customers as they paid for their orders.

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Ginger-scented play dough is provided.
Children are encouraged to smell the play dough and describe how it smells.

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Children are encouraged to paint a Gingerbread Man using the appropriate colors. A picture of a Gingerbread Man was attached to the wall for children to copy if they wished.

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Children are encouraged to count numbers in the sand.

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Children are encouraged to wash the clothes in the water and then hang them up on the washing line.

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Emergent writing - menus