Oliver's Vegetables

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Using the illustrations as a guide, children can tell the story in their own words. Talk about the book Remind ch they canuse the pronoun he or she instead of the name. Ch to use workinglit walls to write exciting descriptions. TA Read the story aloud allowing time to talk about what is happening and the different vegetables as you do. Join in W1 to secureidentification spelling and reading of initial, final and medialletter sounds in simple words; Talk about what children liked or didn’t like about this story. Did they have any questions about it? Watch the story

T to walk around ansupervise retelling and note down group that worked the bestimaginatively and in retelling the story to act in theplenary Help children in their Understanding the World ELGs as they learn about plants and food. They can get a better understanding of nature, plus learn about where food comes from! Why not encourage Expressive Arts and Design skills too with Colouring Activities? Planning with Oliver's Vegetables Tell ch that I amgoing to read one of these three stories again. Ask indv ch tochoose a favourite one and give a reason for this choice. Read themost popular story again and ask the ch if they notice anything newin the words or illustrations. Ch to draw a pictureof their chosen character and to write 4/5 descriptive sentencesusing imaginative vocab. It's a brilliant book for encouraging fussy eaters to try something new. Learn all about different vegetables, how they grow, and how you can eat them. There's a lot more that children can learn from Oliver's Vegetables too, including the days of the week, family relationships, and how to talk about food. How can I use Oliver's Vegetables with my EYFS children?Planning all sorts of lessons around a story like Oliver's Vegetables is a brilliant way of keeping your teaching exciting. It keeps your lessons and activities fresh and memorable, while helping children understand the story better. You can apply all kinds of different ideas, activities and exercises to Oliver's Vegetables, so have some fun working it in to your lessons. W4 to read on sighthigh frequency words specific to graded reading books matched tothe abilities of reading groups draw pictures oftheir chosen characters an adult and a child and think of 5 wordsto describe each one. ch to then write a sentences about eachcharacter using the descriptive words in an interesting way. Adultto help extend ch grandpa was an old man what else could we add avery old man with long grey hair! Bring the classtogether and look at the chs drawings Re-read olivers vegetables orthe extract discuss the story using the words character setting andevent. Ch to write sentencesfor each day of the week. Ie on Monday oliver ate some OnTuesday oliver ate somech to think of an adjective for eachvegetable ie oliver ate some juicy orange carrots

We have an array of resources and activities that go wonderfully in conjunction with the brilliant storybook. All of these are great to use after or whilst reading the book to make sure children understand the story and its objectives. Bring the classtogether and ask pairs to take turns to tell the class about theirpartners chosen character stimulate responses to each othersmemories by asking questions sch as why have you chosen thischaracter? What is special about him/her? draw pictures oftheir chosen characters an adult and a child and think of 10 wordsto describe each one. ch to then write 2 sentences about eachcharacter using the descriptive words in an interesting way draw pictures oftheir chosen characters an adult and a child and think of 5 wordsto describe each one. Adult to help support ch in sounding outwords.Bring the classtogether and choose children to introduce their characters anddescribe them. Are there any animals or fantasy creatures?