Welcome back!

This week our learning activities will be based around the story of 'Oliver's Vegetables' by Vivian French.

Independent Learning Activities:

In FS2 we learn through play. Between the live sessions, try some of the practical and play-based activities below! Most activities can be done inside or outside!

Create

• Vegetable printing - cut potatoes or vegetables in half, dip them in paint and print onto paper. Can you make a pattern?
• Make a veggie face by arranging different vegetables on a plate
• Make vegetable people - Can you decorate vegetables and give them faces?
• Set up a role play fruit and veg shop - Can you be the shop keeper?

Investigate

• Try eating a vegetable that you haven’t tried before!
• Can you name the different vegetables (use real vegetables or photos) - Are there any vegetables that you do not recognise?
• Play the blindfolded vegetable feely game – Can you identify the vegetable by feeling its shape and texture?
• Taste vegetables- Can you identify the vegetable from its taste?
• Count the vegetables in your house- How many carrots do you have? How many Potatoes? Which do you have more or fewer of?
• Compare the length/ size/ weight of different vegetables - Can you identify which are bigger, smaller, longer, shorter, heavier, lighter?

Discuss

• Play “I spy” with a selection of fruit/ vegetables (can you describe them? Can you guess the vegetable from the description?)
• Talk to your grown up about and sort healthy and unhealthy foods
• Discuss foods that you like and dislike
• Play the memory game “I went to the shop and I bought...,” taking turns to recall each of the fruit/ vegetables said previously and adding another vegetable each time.

Read and write

• Play the initial sound shopping game
• Write a shopping list
• Write name labels for the vegetables in the garden

Get active

• Help do some gardening, digging, watering plants inside or outside
• Help your grown-ups with cooking – Can you help chop the vegetables?