The children have enjoyed many healthy learning experiences this week including exploring our healthy Greengrocers. Whilst taking on the role of shop keeper and customer, the children had the opportunity to name and explore a variety of fruit and vegetables as well as sort them into categories of type, size, shape and colour.
Our potatoes came from the nursery garden and before they were transported to the shop the children were set the challenge of ordering the potatoes by size from biggest to smallest.
The children then helped to prepare the potatoes for a snack. This included using our fine motor skills of washing, peeling and chopping the potatoes.
The children enjoyed tasting the yummy boiled potatoes that they had helped to prepare.
Our creative children then used the loose parts materials, the vegetables from the shop and the Box Clever Kitchen Utensils to work together to make their very own ‘Vegetable Soup’ in the water tray.
 
We were counting the number of ladles and spoons of soup we needed to fill and empty our pots, pans and cups.
Next week we are going to find other ways to count and improve our maths and numeracy skills whilst playing during Maths Week Scotland.
