Earthy Potatoes activity ideas

Science

• Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including roots, stem/trunk and leaves.
• Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants.
• Enable pupils to experience and observe phenomena, looking more closely at the natural and humanly-constructed world around them.

Design and Technology

• Understand where food comes from.
• Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes.

Spoken language

• Pupils should be taught to: Listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers.
• Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and build vocabulary and knowledge.

Writing

• Develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by writing narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and fictional).

Word reading

• Pupils should be taught to: Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words.

Mathematics

• Recognise and use language relating to dates, including days of the week, weeks, months and years.
• Interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables.
• Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations.
• Count to and across 100.

Science

• I have helped to grow plants and can name their basic parts. I can talk about how they grow andwhatIneedtodoto look after them.
• I am aware of different types of energy around me and can show their importance to everyday life and my survival.

Design and Technology

• I experience a sense of enjoyment and achievement when preparing simple healthy foods and drinks.
• When preparing and cooking a variety of foods, I am becoming aware of the journeys which foods make from source to consumer, their seasonality, their local availability and their sustainability.

Spoken language

• I can show my understanding of what I listen to or watch by responding to and asking different kinds of questions.

Writing

• Within real and imaginary situations, I share experiences and feelings, ideas and information in a way that communicates my message.

Word reading

• I explore sounds, letters and words, discovering how they work together, and I can use what I learn to help me as I read and write.

Mathematics

• I have explored a variety of ways in which data is presented and can ask and answer questions about the information it contains.
• I can share ideas with others to develop ways of estimating the answer to a calculation or problem, work out the actual answer, then check my solution by comparing it with the estimate.

Science

• Learn the names and uses of the main external parts of the human body and plants.
• Identify some animals and plants that live in the outdoor environment.
• Identify the effects the different seasons have on some animals and plants.

Spoken language

• I enjoy exploring events and characters in stories and other texts, sharing my thoughts in different ways.

Writing

• Begin to write in a conventional way, communicating by using words, phrases and short sentences, linked to familiar patterns.

Word reading

• Understand that written symbols have sound and meaning and develop phonological, graphic and grammatical knowledge, word recognition and contextual understanding within a balanced and coherent programme.

Mathematics

• Know and order days of the week, the months and seasons of the year.
• Collect, represent and interpret data.
• Begin to develop their mental calculation strategies during counting and grouping activities, games and through day- to-day classroom activities.

Science

• Show curiosity about the living things, places, objects and materials in the environment.
• How plants and animals rely on each other within the natural world.
• The use of electricity as an energy source and the importance of using it safely.

Spoken language

• Listen to, interpret and retell, with some supporting detail, a range of oral and written texts.

Writing

• Write for a variety of purposes and audiences.

Word reading

• Use a variety of skills to spell words correctly.

Mathematics

• Know the days of the week, months of the year and seasons.
• Extract information from a range of charts, diagrams and tables.
• Make a sensible estimate of a small number of objects and begin to approximate to the nearest 10 or 100.