Summer Picnic

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to select, identify and prepare foods for a picnic including sandwiches and fruit juice drinks by compiling shopping lists for a class outing. The class can follow sets of instructions explaining how to make sandwiches with different fillings.

Select, identify and prepare different types of foods for a picnic including sandwiches and fruit juice drinks by compiling shopping lists for a class outing

Lesson One : What Food
Practise sorting a selection of different foods that can be eaten on a family summer holiday picnic into matching groups using a range of criteria

Lesson Two : Salad Vegetables
Identify and describe the taste, shape and appearance of different foods that are suitable to use when making salad meals

Lesson Three : Sandwich Fillings
Identify and describe the taste, shape and appearance of some of the different fillings that can be added to sandwiches taken on a summer picnic

Lesson Four : Fruit Juices
Explore how to identify and describe the taste and appearance of some of the different drinks that could be taken on a picnic during the summer season of the year

Lesson Five : Picnic Lists
Investigate how to select and record lists of the different types of food and equipment that are needed for a family summer picnic

Lesson Six : Class Picnic
Practise selecting and preparing some different foods to get ready for a summer picnic when following matching sets of instructions
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Food and Drink Colours
Identify and describe some of the different colours that can be used when buying, preparing and making foods for a range of meals
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Calendar Days
Identify and record the sequence of the seven days of the week using the correct vocabulary words to describe units of time on a calendar
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Fantasy Stories
Identify and describe some of the special characters, locations and events that can occur in narrative stories with fantasy settings
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Class Portraits
Investigate and practise some of the different artwork techniques that can be used when composing and painting a portrait of a classmate