Understanding the World
Expressive Arts and Design
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Tracing the origin of chocolate.
Healthy
 eating collage.
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Exploring the process of fruit and vegetable growth.
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Learning about the concept of fair trade.
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Drawing, painting and making observations of different foods.
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Exploring the changes of state of different foods –
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Vegetable and fruit patterns – link to the story of ‘Handa’s surprise’.
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Creating models of food from clay and painting the finished pieces.
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Designing a chocolate bar wrapper.
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Chocolate collage.
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Making pizzas, cakes, bread, jelly, sandwiches etc.
melting chocolate, mixing dough, cooking toast, freezing
ice etc.
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Designing a chocolate bar and considering its
ingredients.
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Learning about growth and decay of living things.
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Considering the factors that contribute to a healthy
balanced diet and lifestyle.
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Mathematics
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Cut sandwiches, fruits, cakes into different
sizes and quantities and discuss their sizes and
shapes and how they can be shared – who would
have more/less etc.
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decayed teeth and what foods contribute to this.
Simplistic fractions – counting and sharing
equally (pizza slices, cakes, fruit segments etc.)
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Topic – Why Can’t
We Have Chocolate
for Breakfast?
Term – summer 2
Year - Reception
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Using the story of ‘Goldilocks and the three
bears’ to compare sizes of bowls, objects, and
ordering in comparisons to size from biggest to
smallest/tallest to shortest etc.
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Find out the most popular food and show ways of
recording your results in graphs, charts
pictograms etc.
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Finding foods beginning with set letter names and sounds.
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Instructional writing for making cakes, sandwiches, pizzas, fruit kebabs
Looking at the concept of a list - Creating a shopping list.
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Create a menu of your favourite foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Create a menu for a pizza parlour.
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Take peoples orders in a restaurant.
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Create signs and labels for a cafe.
Areas of
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Write descriptions of foods, including the taste, texture, appearance
learning
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Weigh and compare a range of different foods
findings.
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your teeth, etc.
using the correct vocabulary to describe your
Literacy
etc.
Ordering daily routines of meal times and
aspects of keeping healthy; exercise, cleaning
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Have a visit from the Dentist – compare healthy and
Specific
etc.
Explore the changes of state of different foods – write what we predict
will happen and what we have learnt.
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Instructional writing for cleaning your teeth.
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Invent a new chocolate bar – consider the ingredients and brand.