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
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Halving Things
Explain and model how to find and record the halves of some of the different objects that can be used at home and in school
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School Friends
Identify and learn classroom routines and organisation by exploring and describing information and likes and dislikes for each of their classmates
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Classroom
Identify the location and function of different objects used in the classroom and explore how to formulate rules to manage the classroom safely
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Shape Patterns
Identify, describe and compare the sequences of geometric shapes that have been used to create a range of different patterns