All about food!

During the first half of the Autumn term Nursery and Reception have been studying the topic of Food.

We have learnt about different types of food and where food comes from as well as learning about how to have a healthy, balanced diet and how different foods affect our bodies. We know that milk will give us strong teeth and bones and made some milkshake. We learnt about where eggs come from and made some yummy omelettes. We learnt about fruit and vegetables and made some fruit salad and vegetable soup.

We have also been reading and acting out stories such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Gingerbread Man and we made some porridge and gingerbread men.

We also learnt about Harvest and the Jewish festival Sukkot. We learnt that Harvest is a time to celebrate all the food we have, to thank God and all the people (such as farmers) for the food and to share food with those who have less than us. We read the story of the Little Red Hen and made some bread. Unlike in the story, we all helped to make the bread and we all shared it. It was delicious!

We have also been learning about food from around the world. We ate some Greek food such as pitta bread, feta cheese, olives and tzatziki. We learnt about Italy and looked at some pasta. We compared how it felt before and after it was cooked, ate cooked pasta and used dried pasta to make pictures and for threading onto pipe cleaners to make bracelets. We also explored Mexican food and ate tortilla chips, salsa, tortilla wraps and refried beans.

Here are some photos from our busy first half term!