Active Learning
- The Seasons
- Harvesting Food
- Pumpkin Soup
- Donating Food
Enjoy sharing texts such as The Enormous Turnip and Pumpkin Soup, as well as the rhyme One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four, as inspiration to talk, read and write about autumn, harvest and related foods.
Poetry/Rhyme of the Week: One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four (see resources)
Recite at suitable times throughout the week. Encourage children to vary the tone to emphasise the counting words, e.g. one, two, three... Children learn and perform in small groups.
Websites
One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four from youtube.com
The Enormous Turnip Retold online by Irene Yates
Music for We thank you for the harvest (sung to the tune of: Here we go round the mulberry bush), from bbc.co.uk
Resources
A range of fresh and dried/tinned food
Compost and other items to make turnip farm
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