This week in RDT we have been very busy thinking about new life and Easter now that Spring has sprung! We have enjoyed spending lots of time outside in the sunshine as we notice the signs of Springtime around us. We started our week by learning about the Easter story and reflecting on why many people associate this time with new life. We learnt that the chocolate eggs that are given for Easter symbolise new life and linked this to what we already know about nests, eggs and chicks. We thought about all of these different things and then decided to make some chocolate crispy nest buns as an exciting learning experience!

When it was time to make them, we waited patiently and took turns to help make the bun mixture. We were amazed by how the consistency of the melted chocolate changed as we stirred in the cereal! We talked through each instruction together, listening carefully so that we would remember the method for a writing activity.

We then remembered the instructions and used our writing skills to write them down on paper. We used our phonic knowledge to write each word and read it back afterwards to check that we hadn’t skipped any steps!

Here are the instructions for making chocolate nest buns. Ask your child to talk through each step to share their experience of making them at school. If you follow the instructions to create your own chocolate nest buns at home, we would love to see some photographs on Tapestry!

We then sat together and ate our chocolate crispy nest buns together! Many of us asked if we could make them again as we enjoyed them so much! Do you enjoy making food at home? It would be fantastic to hear about what you make at home and we would love some suggestions for what we could make next in RDT!

RDT enjoying their chocolate crispy nest buns at snack time!