Foundation Stage : Curriculum Topics : Water at Home : Lesson Four – Fruit Cocktails


This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to follow and sort a set of instructions about how to use water for drinking when at home. The class can try producing their own drinks by mixing some fruit juices with ice cubes to make a cocktail to drink.

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Learning Objectives

Answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to events. Talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.

Learning Outcomes

I can answer questions about how and why something happens. I can follow a set of instructions about how to make something.

Fruit Cocktails

Teaching sequence to help the children follow and sort a set of instructions about how to use water for drinking when at home

Fruit Cocktail Instructions

Display posters to help the children identify sort instructions about making a fruit cocktail drink into the correct order

Fruit Juice Label

Template to help the children record some of the different fruits used to make a range of fruit cocktail drinks

Fruit Cocktails

Interactive activity to help the children follow and sort a set of instructions about how to use water for drinking when at home

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to follow and sort a set of instructions about how to use water for drinking when at home

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