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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Watch adults preparing food, and participate as appropriate. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Eat together with other people by each person/group bringing something for the table and sharing the food. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Make a fruit salad and other simple recipes. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Sprout seeds and eat them. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Prepare food or drink from something harvested in the garden. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Use a knife and/or vegetable peeler with supervision. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Play "kitchen" with real vegetables. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Give thanks for the food we eat by poems, songs etc. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Celebrate everyone's contribution in preparing the meal (e.g. 'Thanks Harry for laying the table, Thanks Polly for chopping the vegetables' see how many thanks you can give (farmers, sun) |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Take turns serving food to each other and saying 'Please' and 'Thank you'. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Sing a song before a meal, which appreciates the food we are about to eat. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Identify common vegetables and fruits. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Learn that all food has to be grown and prepared for us to eat it. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Notice the differences in taste, colour and texture between boiling, steaming, frying and baking the same vegetable. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Notice how long it takes for vegetables to grow - make a growth chart and record daily observations. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Plant a garden that will provide all of the vegetables needed to prepare a special meal (which the children cook) for parents some weeks later. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Cook following a traditional local recipe (from hundreds of years ago- before supermarkets and global trade - using only locally sourced ingredients. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Prepare a meal to serve to someone in the community who is hungry (homeless, in poverty) - process the experience together afterwards, and talk about how it made you feel. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Explore the question: Does putting our love into the food we cook make a difference? Use the rice experiment - put cooked rice in three jars, one labeled "love", one labelled "hate" and one that is blank. Ignore the blank one and then every day practice saying the word on the label several times. See if there is a difference in how fast the rice decomposes. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Learn about nutrition and having a balanced diet with fruit, vegetables, proteins and carbohydrates. Can the children make up cool names for them or poems to help them remember? |
