LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
~The WALT board
~Class code
~Big Book
~Shop role play area
~Play food & realistic items
~Library books
~Class display
THE BIG PICTURE/LEARNING OUTCOMES
~To establish a simple definition of the term 'being
healthy'
~To create a display entitled 'Being Healthy!'
~To explain the background to the Balance of Good
Health and the foods that are in each of the five
food groups
P.E/PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT &
MOVEMENT
~Playing team games with balls, hoops, beanbags and frogs
~Dancing to music in order to raise heart beat
~Brainstorming for the different types of games and
activities that can be played in the playground
~Know where our food comes from
~To introduce the concept of energy and activity.
To show how being physically active can make you
RELIGION
~Alive-O 3 Jesus the Sharer
of Bread
~Giving thanks to God for
the food we eat
feel positive, bright and happy while having fun.
Topic Food (P.3)
Date March/April
MATHEMATICS & NUMERACY
~Making sandwiches in pairs,
calculating the food amounts needed
~Counting the number of beats our
heart takes before & after exercise
~Create a price list of foods
~Role-play in the supermarket buying
goods and giving back change
~Looking for 2D/3D shapes in fruit
and vegetables
~Programme Beebot to go to the
correct 2D shape
~ Play with shapes to copy, continue
and create patterns
Shape
THINKING
SKILLS
Decision making: explain methods, opinions and reasons
for making choices
Managing information: recording information in a
variety of formats
Being creative: experiment and investigate ‘real
life’ issues
Working with others: turn taking, sharing and
co-operating
~Self-management: check work regularly
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND MUTUAL
UNDERSTANDING
Share, learn new ideas and rules from each other
ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING
REVIEW AND REFLECTION
Observation
Positive feedback
Using the Learning Board when stuck
or to reinforce L.I
Level of concentration/interest
Quality of recording
Use of questions
Use of success criteria
LANGUAGE & LITERACY
~Read and discuss poems about food
~Compose food poems using class texts as starting
points
~Make favourite food lists and practise separating
items with a comma
~Talk about different foods and investigate where
they come from
~Survey on favourite food poems
~Write a food menu for the class café
~Discuss digestion and the importance of healthy
eating for life
~Look at non-fiction texts on food, diet and
exercise
~List foods in alphabetical order
~Construct a flow chart for ‘making tea’
~Describe foods using interesting adjectives
~Collect food labels from packets and tins
through circle time sessions on:
~Keeping healthy
~Healthy choices
~Keeping safe
THE ARTS
~Creating favourite meal using junk materials
~Designing a menu for the classroom café
~Making marbled eggs
~Making play dough
~Make shape collage pictures
~potato printing
~Drawing fruit & veg from observation
~Make potato ‘people’
~Make symmetrical kites
THE WORLD AROUND US
~Locate the different places that our foods come from
~Read and discuss our digestive system. Keep ‘cyber Ben’’
(www.bbc.co.uk/scienceclips) alive by making sure he has a balanced
lifestyle
~Make a database using ‘Pick a Picture’ of classes favourite foods
~Find out if the food we eat today differs from our grandparents
~Shopping, now and then: Looking at and discussing pictures, dvd’s,
books. Listening to real life experiences from children’s own families
~Make a healthy/ not healthy lunchbox