Today was International Food Day so Butterflies class went and had a look at the big map in Reception to see some of the countries that children in our class come from; we also looked at some of the countries that families in our school might be bringing food in from. We thought about what questions we might need to ask our visitors so we could find out about the food they'd brought.
The children in butterflies and caterpillars really enjoyed meeting the parents and tasting some of the food. We were feeling so inspired that we carried on back in the classroom...our theme for the last fortnight has been Chinese New Year. We've also started thinking about the difference between healthy and unhealthy food, so we decided to make and try some stirfry - it was delicious! Our hard work didn't stop there though, whilst we were busy cooking, Butterflies also used ordering connectives to start thinking about sentences we could use in a recipe so that other people could make our stirfry.
Back in the classroom, we used our creative skills to create stir fry plates with wool, paint and foam shapes for vegetables. We talked about what we would add to our stir fry to make them healthy.
