Harvest festival

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Celebrations Saying Thank You

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Objectives

Early learning goals

Know about similarities and differences between others, and among families, communities and traditions.
Sing songs and experiment with ways of changing them.
Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through art, music, role play and stories.

Lesson Planning

Puddles the cat is back to share her experience of Harvest. Children harvest common vegetables & experiment with potato and leaf printing.

Children will:

Engage in activities representing a traditional Harvest Festival Celebration as celebrated in UK and learn something of the significance of this traditional celebration and have opportunities to respond creatively, imaginatively and meaningfully.
Ask and answer questions about religion and culture as they occur within these experiences.
Adapt ‘Thank You Lord for this New Day’ to include the vegetables they are grateful for.

Planning

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

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
Small world farm
Information books about farms and farmers
Driving My Tractor by Jan Dobbins
Why is this day special? Harvest Festival by Jillian Powell

Weblinks

Teacher information from request.org.uk
Thank you Lord song – YouTube clip
Cauliflowers Fluffy and Cabbages Green song from vimeo.com
‘Driving My Tractor’ Barefoot Books – YouTube clip
How to potato print from meaningfulmama.com
How to leaf print from meaningfulmama.com
How to make leaf rubbings from firstpalette.com
Girl singing 'Big, red combine harvester'- YouTube clip
Lyrics for Big, red combine harvester song from google.com