Food and Drink

This curriculum topic scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and describe some of the different colours that can be used when buying, preparing and making foods for a range of meals. The class can make models of foods to match different colour groups that can be part of a special family meal.

Identify and describe some of the different colours that can be used when buying, preparing and making foods for a range of meals

Lesson One : Cooking Pizzas
Explore how to identify and describe some of the different types of coloured food that can be used when making a pizza for a family dinner

Lesson Two : World Foods
Explore and record how to taste and describe foods that can match different countries in the world by their size, colour and shape

Lesson Three : Market Stall
Practise identifying, describing and comparing some of the different types of fruits and vegetables that can be sold in a market

Lesson Four : Party Cookies
Explain and model how to follow a set of instructions to prepare and bake some cookies that contain different coloured dried fruit toppings

Lesson Five : Fruit Smoothies
Practise selecting and describing the colours of some different types of fruit that can be used to make a flavoured drink to serve at a family meal

Lesson Six : Dinner Plate
Explore and record how to identify and describe the colour of different foods that might be eaten by a family for their dinnertime meal
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Garden Measurements
Practise using vocabulary words and non-standard measurements to find and compare the length of different things that can found in a garden
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Family Holiday
Identify and recount events and experiences to describe what happened when on holiday at the seaside using sentences in the past tense
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Money Shopping
Investigate and model some of the number skills that need to be used when working with money on a shopping trip
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Supporting Others
Explore how to build strong and positive relationships with other pupils at school and family members at home through different situations and scenarios