Oct 21, 2014 - This week we read “The Giant Jam Sandwich” by John Vernon Lord.

Here are some suggestions on activities that you can do with your child! It is a digital copy in PDF format. ... Help your child practise tracing the letters of the alphabet with our printable worksheets. Point out the town on the cover of the book and explain that in this book, the citizens of the town work together to create a giant jam sandwich.

After reading the story we talked about how if we were to make a giant jam sandwich, what would you want to trap inside of it. You can use this poster as a guide for various hands on activities such as creating alphabet box filled with items mentioned above, cookery activities like making jelly or simple peanut butter and jelly (jam) sandwich, creating letter J crafts, read letter j books like Jump by Scott M. Fischer, Jellyfish by Carol K. Lindeen, The Giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord, etc. They cause havoc and cause misery to the villagers. 13. FIND OUT MORE.
Display the book “The Giant Jam Sandwich” or a similar book about a citizens working together to solve a problem. After the kids came up with all sorts of clever critters they’d like to trap, we decided to make … Twinkl » Key Stage 1 - Year 1, Year 2 » Literacy & English - KS1 Resources & Activities » Writing Composition » Non-Fiction » Instructions The Giant Jam Sandwich by John Vernon Lord The town of Itching Down has been swarmed in by four million wasps. However, Bap the baker comes up with a wacky idea, of constructing a jam sandwich to lure and trap the naughty nuisances in. This resource is 6 worksheets to be used with John Vernon Lord's book The Giant Jam Sandwich. My 2 1/2 year old and 5 year old love this book and love the idea of capturing wasps in a jam sandwich.

They listen to the book, The Giant Jam Sandwich, then fill in the story pyramid worksheet based on teacher instructions. A lovely rhyming book about a village coming together to make a giant jam sandwich to capture a plague of wasps.

This PowerPoint explains how to make a jam sandwich and the worksheets support children in writing the instructions themselves.


Second graders state a story problem and determine the solution to the problem. Complete the sandwich by colouring each part of the picture according to the numbers.

Explain that the sandwich …

With our worksheets all the hard work has been done all you have to do is photocopy them. Skip to ... Let’s make a jam sandwich.