Lesson Planning
Bake bread and cut up vegetables to make soup. ‘Little Red Hen’ as told by Pie Corbett.
Children will:
- Make vegetable soup and bread.
- Adapt ‘Thank you lord for this new day’ to include the vegetables they are grateful for.
Harvest Festival Celebration
Topics Reception
This unit is part of
Celebrations Saying Thank You
Objectives
Early learning goals
- Try new activities confidently, and to say why some activities are liked more than others.
- Speak confidently in a familiar group, and talk about ideas,
- Choose the resources needed for the chosen activities.
- Say if and when help is needed.
Provided Resources
- Prayers and blessings from different religions and cultures
You Will Need
- ‘Thank you’ poster started in session 1
- A Wet and Windy Harvest for Puddles by Gill Vaisey
- Toy puddles the cat
- Christian artefacts and vestments
- Knives, chopping boards, vegetables, peeler
- A large saucepan to make vegetable soup
- Ingredients for making bread
Weblinks
Teacher information from request.org
Little Red Hen story – YouTube clip
Thank you Lord song – YouTube clip
Good manners songs from preschooleducation.com
Cauliflowers Fluffy and Cabbages Green song from vimeo.com
Lyrics for Big, red combine harvester song from google.com
Girl singing 'Big, red combine harvester' - YouTube clip