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Topic: Harvest Term: Personal, social and emotional: Physical: Communication and Language: Helping others- why do we help others? What would you say thank you for? Why do we need to say thank you? Farmers- what is their job? Make a scarecrow Dig up potatoes (other vegetables buried in a tray full of soil) Hollow out pumpkins with various malleable tools. Describe the fruit or vegetable. Talk about helping others. Role play- café. Supermarket or farmers market Topic: Harvest Term: Literacy: Mathematics: Understanding the World: Expressive arts and design: Thank you letters Read harvest stories Write lists for harvest box Posters for harvest box Repeated patterns, patterns on/inside fruits Buy and sell healthy foods- money and role play Simple addition- adding items inside food basket. Look at root vegetables and their roots. How are foods grown? How do farmers harvest? Dig up vegetables for harvest box. Look at fruits and vegetables under the microscope. Sing harvest songs Dance like a scarecrow Fruit and vegetable printing, painting and sketching. Pasta collages www.earlybirdyeducation.com