Lesson Five – Shopping Bag

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to select and sort a range of foods into matching groups to make comparisons based on their different types such as fruit and vegetables and dairy products.

The class can practise filling a shopping bag to show some of the different foods that they can buy on a shopping trip to a supermarket.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and sort a range of foods into matching groups to make comparisons based on their different types such as fruit and vegetables and dairy products

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how to sort foods into groups by their matching types, a set of cards to sort between different types of foods by their matching types and a template to make models of foods that might be sold in different aisles in a supermarket.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to sort a range of foods into different groups to make comparisons based on their types.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compare the range of products that can be sold in a supermarket and role-play buying and paying for shopping lists. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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