SPCA Cupcake Day - Early Learning Kete

This learning kete provides kaiako with a week's worth of ideas, suggestions and downloadable resources to theme their learning experiences around planning, baking, decorating and selling cupcakes. Kaiako can choose if they follow the weekly plan, select a few experiences their tamariki will connect with, or enjoy teaching and learning with this kete across a few weeks. 

Kete Resources and Suggested Experiences:

• Intro to SPCA & Cupcake Day - Awareness of SPCA and charities

• Story: Storm Gets a New Family - Empathy, caring for animals

• Nursery Rhyme: Five Cupcakes - Music, rhythm, sharing

• Design a Cupcake - Creativity, art skills

• Sand/Mud Kitchen - Symbols communicate ideas

• Cupcake Visualisation - Healthy bodies, imagination, language

• Customer Survey - Ask questions, collect data

• Recipe/Book Reading - Symbols in real-life use

• Measurement & Volume - Explore size, amount, comparison

• Online Fundraising - Express with digital media, group goal

• Shopping List - Literacy in context, community links

• Baking Cupcakes - Use symbols, follow process. Collaborate with others

• Decorating Cupcakes - Express creativity

• Bake Sale Stall - Work together, community event

• Money Play - Numbers in real life, social skills

• Counting Donations - Numbers with purpose

• Reflection - Review learning, understand SPCA