🌿 Session 2
Making and tasting the cake
👦🏻 Target age: 5–6 years old
⏰ Duration: about 30 minutes
Materials: For the teacher, prepare the version developed with the class during Session 1. This version does not need to be written down; it can be told without a written script.
Space: classroom gathering area, students seated in a circle.
🎯Educational objectives
This second session focuses on representing the cake: its sensory dimension as well as the steps involved in preparing it. Students are invited to participate: how do they imagine the gestures needed to cook a cake?
🧩 Session plan:
| Step 1 | The teacher tells the story integrating the elements contributed by the students during the previous session. |
| Step 2 | Exploration of how to make a cake. |
| Step 3 | Exploration of tasting the cake. |
| Step 4 | Storytelling of the cake-making process integrating the elements and gestures contributed by the students during the session. |
🟢Step 1: Revisiting the story enriched by the students’ discoveries from the previous session
| Teacher’s role | Tell the story integrating the elements contributed by the students during the previous session. |
| Students’ role | Listen and imagine the story in their minds. |
🗣️Example:
“Do you remember? Yesterday I told you the story of the Little Red Hen, and together we imagined lots of things. I will tell the story again, with everything we discovered. You can close your eyes. Try to imagine the story in your head.”
🟢Step 2: Exploring how to make a cake
🎯Objectives: The teacher returns to the moment when the Little Red Hen is in the kitchen. They suggest a deeper visualization of the scene by asking students about the correct gestures and the order of the steps involved in making a cake.
| Teacher’s role | Lead and regulate the discussion about the sensory environment of each step of the story, and note the students’ ideas. |
| Students’ role | Participate in the shared creation while respecting the rules of collective speaking. |
🗣️Example:
How do we crush the wheat? (you remember, we did it yesterday!)
What do we do next? (bring the flour into a mixing bowl, quite big… held with a rounded arm)
What ingredients do we need? (eggs, butter, sugar, a pinch of salt…)
→ Find a gesture for each ingredient: crack the eggs (one, two, three), cut a piece of butter, pour the sugar, add a pinch of salt, pour into the baking pan, put it in the oven…
→ We can vote to decide the ingredient that determines the flavor: grated chocolate, vanilla, banana, honey, grated coconut…
🟢Step 3: Exploring the tasting of the cake
🎯Objectives: The teacher invites students to try to describe the smell of the cake, its texture once in the mouth, and other sensory characteristics: “Is it soft? firm? melting?…”
→ Students take turns speaking and describing their favorite taste.
🟢Step 4: Storytelling of making and tasting the cake
🎯Objectives: This final stage is dedicated to retelling the story while integrating the exchanges that took place during the lesson.
| Teacher’s role | Tell the story of making the cake and the tasting, integrating the elements and gestures contributed by the students during the session. |
| Students’ role | Listen and participate in the gestures mentioned. |