Christ Church EYFS Medium Term Planning for Reception Term 4 Monday 20th February- Friday 30th March 2012
Main focus: Food
What would you like to learn about Food:
Environment and Resources:
Books:
(questions generated by children during carpet time)
 Food and recipe books
 The Giant Jam Sandwich
 Role play delicatessen and cafe
 Oliver’s Vegetables
 What do vegetables need to live?
 Small world toys
 The Lighthouse Keeper’s Picnic
 How do carrots and strawberries grow?
 Role play costumes e.g. chef, waiter/waitress
 Mrs Armitage on Wheels
 How do we cook pasta?
 Outside area and kitchen garden
 The Tiger Who Came to Tea
 How do you make pizza?
 Cooking equipment and ingredients
Please note we will be reading these books
 How can we use ginger?
 Art challenges –
Can you paint the food the Hungry Caterpillar ate?
gradually so we would be grateful if the plots
 What do people eat in other countries?
Can you draw some objects for the delicatessen shelves?
could remain a secret!
Can you study and draw a daffodil?
Role Play: Delicatessen and café to encourage
Can you make a plate of food using play dough?
writing, speaking and listening and maths skills
though child initiated play
Personal, Social and Emotional:
Physical:
Communication, Language and Literacy:
We will be working on the whole school value
 Rhythmical awareness
 Finish Set 2 sounds and continue to revise Set 1
“kindness”
 Movement concepts
sounds. Work on phonics to develop children’s
Learning will also focus on the following:
 Body shapes
sound blending for reading and writing
 developing listening and attention skills
 Aesthetic movement
 Teach children to recognise and write lower
 developing independence within the
case letters
Reception Class environment e.g.
 Using capital letters to begin sentences and full
dressing/undressing independently
stops to finish them
 working as part of a group, taking turns
 Using descriptive language
and sharing
 Writing opportunities linked to food topic e.g.
 Talk and listen with greater confidence
writing sandwich making instructions, writing a
 Following our Golden Rules
menu, writing labels for food in the
delicatessen, writing a class Thank You letter to
Arch House Delicatessen, shopping lists
 Continue to learn ‘tricky words’, recognizing
them by sight and using them to build sentences
Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy:
 Identifying 3D shapes
 Ordering numbers and objects (e.g. by
size)
 Form numbers correctly
 Time
 Symmetry
 Adding and subtracting skills
 Writing number sentences for addition
and subtraction
 Count in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s
Creative:
 Paint still life pictures
 Cooking e.g. Pancakes, Welsh Cakes, pizzas,
pesto
 Make sandwiches
 Learn and perform a variety of food songs
 Create props for our role play area
 Take part in our Reception class assembly
Knowledge and Understanding:
 Use books, computer programmes and other
activities to answer questions about our food
topic
 Learn about food for special occasions
 Continue to plan and resource kitchen garden
 Using mouse and keyboard to navigate software
 Learn about British food
 Develop understanding of food in other cultures
 Investigate how food is prepared and served
safely