Are carrots orange?
Our focus for this week is the range of foods we know and eat!
What am I?
Using what you have in your home, collect a variety of fruit and vegetables and put them into a bag.
Your adult is going to look inside and tell you some facts about one of the items. For example, they could say: ‘I am green. I am juicy. I have a sweet taste. I grow in bunches.’
Your job is to guess which fruit or vegetable they have chosen! Then, swap with your adult. Give them then clues and see if they get it right!
Music-Join in!
We’d like you to spend some time this week singing songs and reading poems all about food! See how many actions you can add to each one.
The two we are going to focus on this week are One Potato Two Potato and Ten Fat Sausages.
Food Hunt
Your adult is going to hide pictures of different coloured foods around your home. You can use the files below to print the pictures, draw them with your adult or use the toy or real foods you have in your home.
It is your job to find each of the foods for each colour and use the Food Hunt Sheet below to tick them off.
Then, lay out all of your pictures to make your own food rainbow!
Use Your Senses
Ask your adult to put out a range of foods that appeal to the senses on a tabletop. You could include:
- bowls of cooked spaghetti
- lumpy mashed potato
- cold custard
- smelly cheese
- chopped onions
- tangy passion fruit
- sweet treacle
- spicy curry powder
Use the Senses Word Mat below to explain what you can see, smell, taste and touch.
Hard Spaghetti, Soft Spaghetti!
For this lesson, we’d like you to explore how some foods change during cooking. You could do this by starting with pasta!
Ask your adult to set out as many different shapes of pasta as you have at home and have a go at describing what they look, feel and smell like.
Then, cook the pasta and observe it at the various stages of cooking. Once the pasta is soft, drain it, allow it to cool and explore it. Feel the texture and have a taste.
How did the pasta change? Have a go at using vocabulary such as hard, soft, cook, boil and cool.
If you can, explore some different types of pasta such as spaghetti, linguine, fusilli, vermicelli, capellini, tagliatelle and many others.
Why not try adding food dye to the pasta and using different tools to handle it such as forks for twirling and tongs for grabbing for a really exciting meal time!
Pass the Jam
Listen to the story above and join in where you can. Could you guess some of the rhyming words? Did you spot any alliteration?
Using the Rhyming Word Cards below, put the cards into piles of words that rhyme.
Why not have a go at making jam sandwiches for lunch! You could use any flavour or jam or marmalade. Have a go at using a plastic knife yourself to make your own sandwich!
