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What happened in the story of Chapatti Moon?

Posted on by Little Birds Nursery
09
Dec

This week Little Birds have been looking at the story of ‘Chapatti Moon’.

The children tasted chapatti and different types of bread. They used their senses to explore the breads and recalled about the flavours and textures developing their communication skills.

Young girl in blue school jumper holding a tray of bread
Young boy in blue school jumper holding a tray of bread
Young girl in blue school jumper eating bread
Young girl in blue school jumper holding a tray of bread

Throughout the week we referred to our chosen story ‘Chappati Moom’ and talked about what happened in the story.

Some children enjoyed sharing the story book with their friends in the book area.

Two girl in blue and grey school uniform sitting on the floor reading a book

Little Birds learnt about the importance of washing hands when eating and preparing food.

We operated and handled children’s safety knives carefully when preparing food in the nursery

Three boys outside in coats cutting up tomatoes on a chopping board and plastic knife

Little Birds spoke about healthy and unhealthy foods in a smaller focus group. Sorting real food into two groups on trays.

A young girl sitting at a table, holding a small carrot. Trays in front of her contain fruit, a drink, and packaged snacks.
Two young girls in blue tops are reaching towards a tray that holds fruit (banana, orange, apple), a carrot, and a bottle of water. Packaged snacks are on a separate tray.
A young girl in a blue uniform sitting at a table, smiling while looking at a tray with packaged snacks and a note or card.
A young boy in a blue uniform sitting at a table, holding and looking at a bottle of drink. A tray in front of him holds a banana, an apple, and another bottle.
Two young boys in blue uniforms sitting at a table, smiling and holding small food items above a tray of snacks and a drink.
Two young children in blue uniforms looking down at a tray containing snacks and a bottled drink.

Then some of the children made plates of healthy food using their cutting skills.

A woman who looks to be a teacher sits a table with 4 children around showing them pictures on a page

Following the Little Birds’ interest and enjoyment in singing and reciting the currant bun song, the practitioners changed the words to ‘Five Chapattis in a baker’s shop’.

4 young kids in blue and grey uniform stand around a round table holding their hand up showing 5 fingers

This helped to develop our counting skills within 5.

The Little birds made chapati’s from playdough, using their finer physical skills and rolling pins to shape the dough into circles.

A young girl with light hair, wearing a white polo shirt, smiling as she rolls out dough using a small orange rolling pin on a wooden table.
A young girl in a blue uniform with her hair in pigtails, concentrating on rolling out dough with a red miniature rolling pin.
A young boy in a blue uniform sitting at a table, holding a small piece of dough with a miniature red rolling pin next to him.
A young boy in a blue uniform standing and holding out a piece of light-colored dough towards the camera.
Two young children in blue uniforms smiling while using small rolling pins to work with dough on a wooden table.
A young boy in a blue uniform holding and looking down at a piece of dough in his hands. An orange rolling pin is visible on the table.

What an amazing week of learning and inquiry everyone had in Little Birds, well done!