Week beg.

Focus

Learning objectives

Children should:

Activity (see lesson plan for more detail)

Learning outcomes

Children

2

IDEA’s

There is a wide variety of vegetables available

P1(i)  encounter experiences

P1(ii) give intermittent reactions

P2(i) show interest in objects

P2(ii)communicate consistent preferences

f

P3(i) remember learned responses over a period of time

g

P3(ii) apply potential solutions to problems

g

P4 assemble things provided for an activity

P5 with help use a basic tool

 P6 recognise familiar products

P7 use basic tools

oo

 P8 contribute to decisions about what is next  

Similar to previous week but using vegetables –  N.B. objectives and outcomes are different

Explain to the children that the vegetables need to be washed before doing anything with it

Have a variety of vegetables ready for exploration and investigation using senses.

Children to be in positions so that they are able to experience and examine the different vegetables. Children to feel, smell vegetables before they have been peeled or cut up. Match real vegetables to vegetables / pictures / symbols / words. Cut up or peel the different vegetables and then feel, smell, taste.

Have a pre-prepared vegetable soup ready to taste. 

P1(i)  with help use senses to experiences the vegetables

P1(ii) respond in some way to the smell of the onion when cut up

P2(i) watch as the vegetables are cut up and smelt / felt

P2(ii)turn towards a particular vegetable  in preference to another

P3(i) react knowingly that the smell of an onion can make the eyes sting

P3(ii) push the vegetable away if they do not like the smell of it

P4 put the pieces of vegetable in a bowl

P5 with adult support use a potato peeler

P6 indicate by word, sign that the knife / peeler cuts the fruit

P7 use scissors, with help, to cut cabbage when in smaller pieces

P8 give suggestions by word / sign what we should do with the vegetables now

Resources:

Vegetables – potatoes, cabbage, carrots, onions,  pictures / symbols of vegetables  with words, tinned or packet soup, some way to heat it, cups / bowls / spoons to taste soup

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Points to note: pre-prepared soup could be tinned, packet or fresh (if you want to spend time making it!!!)

Design and  technology unit 1c – Eat  more fruit and vegetables

Week beg.

Focus

Learning objectives

Children should:

Activity (see lesson plan for more detail)

Learning outcomes

Children

2

Investigative, disassembly and evaluative activities

(IDEA’s)

·    learn that fruit and vegetables may require treatment before being eaten

·    know what the treatment is

Have contrasting fruit and vegetables ready - an orange, some grapes, a carrot, lettuce.

Discuss if they are eaten as seen or what should be done before they are eaten. Treat them as appropriate before eating them.

Fill in the worksheet to match the appropriate treatment to the fruit / vegetables

·       can say which fruit / vegetables need something doing to them before being eaten

·       can say what the treatment is

Resources:

Vegetables – an orange, some grapes, a carrot, lettuce, knife, water, peeler, worksheet

(Click on words underlined to go to that resource or lesson plan)

Points to note: remind about personal hygiene – washing hands