Our topic in P2 this half term is ‘Food Glorious Food’ and what a start we have made! We have looked at the 5 main food groups and how we should use them to make a ‘balanced’ diet. Each week we will look at a new food group kicking off with a focus on ‘Carbohydrates and Grains’, followed by ‘Fruit and Vegetables’. We understand how our food moves from farm to fork and this is reflected in our play.
Each area of our role play focuses on an aspect of this movement; from grains moving to the factory to make flour for our dough, our dough being moulded, shaped and baked to make bread which we pass onto our shops, then we have our wonderful shops stocked up for our customers to do their grocery shopping and take home. We take part in every point of this important process and appreciate that food doesn’t just ‘magically’ appear on our plates. In other areas we have following… recipes to make soup in the water tray, creating and mixing coloured spaghetti in the sensory tray, drawing up shopping lists at our writing station and treading vegetables and pasta at our finger gym.
And it doesn’t just end here! What would our topic be without a little bit of cooking and (most importantly) tasting! We Learn through doing at Limavady Central, so preparing, toasting, spreading, cutting and blending is all done by our Primary 2’s. It definitely makes it all the sweeter when we prepared our own toast and fruit smoothies for ourselves. I think you can agree that we we have lots of little chefs in the making!
