Harvest
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate how farmers collect the harvest in the autumn including grown crops and food sources from animals and explore how the harvest can be celebrated in churches using prayers and decorations.
Investigate how farmers collect the harvest in the autumn including grown crops and food sources from animals and explore how the harvest can be celebrated
Lesson One : Farm Crops
Identify and describe some of the different types of foods that are grown and harvested on a farm
Lesson Two : Farm Jobs
Identify and describe some of the different jobs that are performed on a farm during the autumn harvest
Lesson Three : Harvest Soup
Investigate and record how harvested crops can be used to make different meals
Lesson Four : Harvest Decorations
Produce sculptures of a range of different vegetables that can be used to celebrate the autumn harvest
Lesson Five : Harvest Prayer
Select vocabulary words that can be used to compose a Christian prayer to celebrate the harvest at a special festival
Lesson Six : Harvest Plait
Follow a set of instructions to make a decoration celebrating the autumn harvest
-
Owl and the Pussycat
Explore and role-play the sequence of events and language used in a traditional poem and investigate and spell cvc words with the same initial sounds
-
Story Sentences
Practise writing example sentences to describe some of the different events and settings that feature in the traditional story poem of the Owl and the Pussycat
-
Story Map
Design and produce a map to record a journey that is being described in a traditional story to show the sequence of events and locations that feature in the narrative
-
Story Journeys
Suggest, describe and record some of the alternative events that might occur in a story based on the narrative sequence of a traditional tale