Lesson Six – Dinner Plate

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore and record how to identify and describe the colour of different foods that might be eaten by a family for their dinnertime meal.

The class can practise combining different materials to make a model of a meal that their family could enjoy together at a special celebration to illustrate what makes them unique.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and record how to identify and describe the colour of different foods that might be eaten by a family for their dinnertime meal

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and define vocabulary words that can be used to describe different foods, a set of cards to label the colours of different types of food and a template to select and record some of the different foods that can be used when making special meals.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and describe the colour of different foods that might be eaten by a family for their dinnertime meal.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get 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. 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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