Food Glorious Food

The Glitter Class 

Upper Pre-Primary

Dear Family and Friends

Where do we start?  This unit has flown by filled with new experiences and opportunities to learn through the senses.    

This year, without covid regulations we took full advantage of organising trips and having visitors from our community into the classroom to share their knowledge and expertise about food.  We have been privileged in this respect, our class has 16 different nationalities and 16 different cuisines which meant that we could all learn from each other. 

Here are some highlights:-

• Entry point - visiting a vegetarian restaurant De Appelier.
• Listening to stories about food including The Gingerbread Man, Handa’s Surprise, The Giant Turnip and Thank You Omu for example. 
• Sorting healthy and unhealthy foods.
• Learning about vitamins, carbohydrates and proteins and eating a rainbow.
• Squeezing oranges and peeling carrots.
• Becoming expert sandwich makers - peeling eggs for protein and making a peanut butter and jam sandwich looking for shapes during the process. 
• Belgium Delights.  Finn’s Mum and Oma came to visit and shared many delightful Belgian specialities including waffles, which of course were a BIG hit!
• A sensational mystery tram trip.  Visiting Thedas’s home to try delicious Sri Lankan food which was an AMAZING experience.  Thedas’s parents kindly prepared everything for us to see, smell and taste.  We even got to roll out the coconut roti! 
• A Brazilian treat when Davi’s Mum came to school to teach us all about Brigadeiros.  We then got to roll them and eat them.  DECLICIOUS delights.
• Super Sushi.  Mitsuki’s parents coming in to school to teach us how to make Temaki, it was so YUMMY!
• Learning about the Eatwell Plate and how we should eat a balanced diet with foods from each food group. 
• Creating our own Handa’s Surprise food baskets by printing fruits.
• Blind food tasting - being risk-takers and willing to try new things. 
• Mystery smelling bottles - who could guess what was inside?
• Mandarin Maths - counting up and then one less than.
• Learning about the different parts of an apple and making an observational drawing of one. 
• Fruit and vegetable surveys.

Our Exit Point was decided by the students who wanted to make Gingerbread cookies for some of their community.  The Glitter Class decided to share them with their Reading Buddies and the greater school community.  It was a tasty ending to all of the learning that had gone before. 

We have been extremely lucky to have experienced a huge variety of foods, this would not be possible without the awesome support of our wonderful parents.  Always willing to contribute to our programme and create those moments that will never be forgotten by our students.  Thank you everybody for giving up your time, we had some absolutely amazing times together. 

The food unit has offered special moments for the students to explore and be risk-takers whilst also learning about why we need to eat and how we can make good food choices.

Please enjoy a selection of photographs from this unit.

Have a wonderful break, see you in 2023!

With kindest regards.

Ms. Marianne and Ms. Laura