{"id":13505,"date":"2016-11-12T20:51:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T19:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/?p=13505"},"modified":"2016-11-12T20:51:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T19:51:33","slug":"learning-in-the-snack-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/HecklegirthNursery\/2016\/11\/12\/learning-in-the-snack-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning in the Snack Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

An important aspect of learning in Nursery happens in the snack area where children develop a wide range of skills. They develop self-help and social skills as well as fine motor control when helping to prepare their own snack. Literacy and Numeracy are also part of the experience through talking and listening or, for example, counting the number of pieces of fruit on their plates.
\nHealthy eating and lifestyle often forms part of our discussions and this week we took the opportunity to develop the children\u2019s global awareness to encourage them to think about the origins of food as we talked about which country the different foods came from and how they arrived on our table. We had carrots, sweetcorn, cucumber and three different colours of peppers for the children to sample along with dip and breadsticks. Some were more confident than others to try a new taste but they all showed great enthusiasm to find out which part of the globe they had come from.
\nWe will be encouraging the children to continue to think about the origins of different foods and to develop a broad range of skills and knowledge in the snack area. We hope that you enjoy these photos of some of our little food tasters.