This all began with snack time chats, when we realised that some children did not know the difference between a cake and a pie.  We dealt with this in two ways, firstly by choosing photos of cakes and pies as our talking pictures before the register each morning and then by the real, hands-on experience of making cakes together.

Every child had a role to play from slicing or mashing the bananas to cracking the egg or measuring out the dry ingredients.  By the end of the session each child had a tasty muffin to take home.

By the end of the week, many of them knew that a pie has pastry that you roll out like playdough and cake mixture is runny.

We plan to make fruit pies after the half-term holiday.  Yum!