Nursery Healthy Eating Week 06/06/2014

Language, Literacy & Communication

We had a focus on food this week for Healthy Eating Week, so we learned the rhyme, Old Mother Hubbard.

The children were given the challenge to think of food that could go into the empty cupboard….but only healthy food.

Mathematical Development

We made repeating patterns with pictures of our favourite fruits.

We practised our counting along a number line, adding pictures of fruit as we counted.

Knowledge and Understanding of the World

We made a very healthy egg salad for our cooking this week. Children made decisions about what types of vegetables they wanted in their salad and then topped it with some egg. An easy way to try new healthy foods.

We noticed that all the plants we had planted outside were a little bit dry so we all worked together to water them to help them grow.

Personal and Social Development, Well Being and Cultural Diversity

We discussed what benefits different kinds of healthy foods gave us – protein in meat,fish and eggs to make our muscles grow, fruit and vegetables to give us vitamins, carbohydrates in bread, pasta and rice to give us energy and dairy products to make our bones and teeth strong.

The children were good at remembering that foods like crisps, sweets, and cakes are only small treats.

Creative Development

We coloured in the different food groups on a special colouring sheet which was laminated to make a placemat to use when eating our healthy food at home.

We looked at pictures of different fruits and clapped out the patterns,
e.g: ap-ple = clap-clap
ban-na-na = clap-clap-clap, etc.

Physical Development

We practised our scissor skills when choosing healthy foods to cut and stick into Old Mother Hubbard’s cupboard.

Rugby Tots were here for Move-it Monday and will continue for the next 6 weeks.

As part of Healthy Eating Week we used a trial of Fab 5 Fitness – five minute exercise videos, where we pretended to be footballers, cowboys and cowgirls, and hula dancing.

Welsh Language Development

We continued to practice the Welsh “Dwi’n hoffi…” to say “I like…” when talking about their favourite healthy foods.

Anything else!

Please remember to send your child into school in comfortable clothes and trainers for Move-it Mondays, as we will be very active in the hall.

Thanks