Ladywell Nursery children have been busy digging up our potato plants that we planted before the summer. The children were so surprised to find lots of potatoes in the ground and engaged well in discussions about how they grow and what they need to grow. We decided to use the potatoes in different areas of the nursery to demonstrate different ways we can use them.

Some children were involved with washing and preparing the potatoes for cooking and enjoyed tasting them at snack time. To help develop our numeracy skills the children had the opportunity to use the potatoes for sorting by size, colour and shape. We have also been learning to describe the potatoes using mathematical language and forward and backwards sequencing. In the art area some children had the opportunity to use the potatoes for printing to help support their creative skills. The potatoes were also used in our home corner for children to use during role play.  We even sang some songs about potatoes to help develop children’s coordination skills and rhythm.

“one potato two potato” “singing songs and chanting rhymes will aid the child’s language development”