Preschoolers will learn about professions related to food and match the products of their work to the representatives of the profession. They will make ‘Jobs’ worksheets and bake healthy cookies.

Educational aids:

‘The Pinnocchio’ song, photos of a farmer, a cook, a baker, and a pastry cook, printed names of the jobs, a video showing a movement activity called ‘The chef’, photos of a farmer’s harvest, cook’s dishes, baker’s baked goods, and pastry cook’s goods, a chopping board, knives, spoons, pots, pans, lids, etc., sashes/loops, ‘When I grow up’ song, ‘Jobs’ worksheets, crayons, pencils, bowls, forks, bananas, raisins, oat flakes, a baking tray, parchment paper, a whistle, ‘Pat – a – cake, pat – a – cake baker’s man’ song.

Description of activities:

1. ‘The Pinocchio’ – greeting children – children stand in a circle with their teacher, sing the song and move according to the lyrics of the song.

Everybody in. Everybody out. (take a step forward and then one backward)
Everybody turn around. Everybody shout, “Hey!” (turn around and shout ‘hey!’)
Everybody ready? Here we go. (march)
Let’s do The Pinocchio. (showing with hand how long the nose of Pinocchio is)
Right arm! (raise right hand up)

Everybody in. Everybody out.
Everybody turn around. Everybody shout, “Hey!”
Everybody ready? Here we go.
Let’s do The Pinocchio.
Right arm!
Left arm! (raise left hand up)

Everybody in. Everybody out.
Everybody turn around. Everybody shout, “Hey!”
Everybody ready? Here we go.
Let’s do The Pinocchio.
Right arm!
Left arm!
Right leg! (right leg raised)

Everybody in. Everybody out.
Everybody turn around. Everybody shout, “Hey!”
Everybody ready? Here we go.
Let’s do The Pinocchio.
Right arm!
Left arm!
Right leg!
Left leg! (jump)

Everybody in. Everybody out.
Everybody turn around. Everybody shout, “Hey!”
Everybody ready? Here we go.
Let’s do The Pinocchio.
Right arm!
Left arm!
Right leg!
Left leg!
Chin up! (raise chin up)

Everybody in. Everybody out.
Everybody turn around. Everybody shout, “Hey!”
Everybody ready? Here we go.
Let’s do The Pinocchio.
Right arm!
Left arm!
Right leg!
Left leg!
Chin up!
Turn around! (turn around)

Everybody in. Everybody out.
Everybody turn around. Everybody shout, “Hey!”
Everybody ready? Here we go.
Let’s do The Pinocchio.
Right arm!
Left arm!
Right leg!
Left leg!
Chin up!
Turn around!
Sit down! (sit)

2. ‘In the kitchen’ – didactic activity – teacher asks children to focus. Teacher spells the words: far-mer, cook, bak-er, pas-try cook, and the children’s task is to solve what the words are. Then, teacher disposes the photos of people performing these jobs and children name the jobs, and describe what they do (a farmer – takes care of a field and plants, products that are necessary to eat; a baker – makes bread, buns, etc.; a pastry cook – makes cakes and sweets; a cook – cooks and creates dishes). Teacher asks how these jobs are related and explains that all these jobs are involved in the process of preparing food – a farmer supplies a cook, a baker, and a pastry cook with products that they use in their work.

3. ‘Kitchen race’ – movement activity – teacher divides children into 4 groups. Each group gathers in a marked place and is named by one of the jobs: cooks, bakers, pastry cook, and farmers. Then, they sit in a circle but not next to people from their groups. When teacher says the name of one of the jobs, e.g. cooks, children from the cooks’ group change their places. When teacher says ‘Kitchen race’, all the children change their places. The activity lasts as long as all the names of the jobs are mentioned at least once.

4. ‘Match’ – didactic activity – teacher disposes the photos of a farmer, a cook, a baker, and a pastry cook and reversed photos of a farmer’s harvest, cook’s dishes, baker’s baked goods, and pastry cook goods. One by one, children reverse the photos and match them to the correct person. Then, they count how many elements are in each group and tell which has the most elements, which one has the least, and what is the difference between them.

5. ‘The chef’ – movement activity – teacher plays ‘The chef’ video or ‘Hungarian dance’ song and shows and describes the correct movements:

• Stir the pot with your right hand
• Stir the pot with your left hand
• Add the spices
• Stir the pot with your right hand
• Stir the pot with your left hand
• Add the spices
• Chop with your right hand
• Chop with your left hand
• Cut an onion
• Open a jar
• Pour cheese on
• Chop with your right hand
• Chop with your left hand
• Cut an onion
• Open a jar
• Pour cheese on
• Pour some liquid with your right hand
• Pour some liquid with your left hand
• Pour some liquid with your right hand
• Pour some liquid with your left hand
• Taste test
• Add a little salt
• Taste test
• Add a little salt
• Taste test
• Add a little salt
• Taste test
• Add a little salt
• Stir in the pot with your right hand
• Stir in the pot with your left hand
• Add the spices
• Stir in the pot with your right hand
• Stir in the pot with your left hand
• Add the spices
• Chop with your right hand
• Chop with your left hand
• Cut an onion
• Open a jar
• Pour cheese on
• Chop with your right hand
• Chop with your left hand
• Cut an onion
• Open a jar
• Pour cheese on
• Okay
• Mah!

6. ‘Jobs’ – making worksheet – teacher shows children a worksheet and describes their tasks (match a person with a result of his/her work). Then, teacher asks preschoolers to go to the tables and divides them into worksheets. During their work, teacher walks between tables, helps children if they need it and checks whether their tasks are done correctly.

7. ‘Goodies’ – movement activity – children walk around the classroom to ‘When I grow up’ song following teacher’s instructions, e.g. jumping, marching, doing carioca drills, crawling, tiptoeing. When they hear a sound, e.g. a whistle, they stop. Then, teacher says the name of any fruit or vegetable, e.g. an apple, a lemon, an onion, a tomato, a kiwi, a garlic, a potato, and the children’s task is to show if they like them or not using their facial expressions. Teacher says again the manner of walking. The activity is repeated 7-8 times.

8. ‘Healthy cakes’ – culinary activity – teacher asks children if they know how to make healthy cookies and people perfoming which of the mentioned jobs make them (pastry cook, but a farmer provides oats that create oats flakes that they are going to use). Children wash their hands and sit at the tables in pairs arranged by their teacher. On each table, there is a bowl, a fork, a banana, a hand of raisins, and a glass of oat flakes. The children’s task is to mash a banana with a fork, add the rest of the ingredients and knead them using a hand. Teacher monitors their work and helps. When the pastry is ready, teacher comes with the prepared baking tray with parchment paper to each table and children form and put the cookies on it. Teacher takes the tray to the kitchen. The cookies should be baked for 15-20 minutes at 180 Celsius degrees/356 degrees Fahrenheit. When they are ready, children can try them e.g. after lunch/for snacks.

9. ‘Pat – a – cake, pat – a – cake baker’s man’ – movement activity – teacher sings/plays ‘Pat – a – cake, pat – a – cake baker’s man’ song and claps. Children walk around a circle, clap and try to sing.

Pat – a – cake, pat – a – cake baker’s man

Pat-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man,
Bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Pat it and prick it and mark it with B,
Put it in the oven for Baby and me,
For baby and me, for Baby and me,
Put it in the oven for Baby and me!

The activity is repeated 2-3 times – every time change the direction of your march.

Attachments:

Photos for the ‘In the kitchen’ and ‘Match’ activities

Photos for the ‘Match’ activity

‘Jobs’ worksheet

Pages:

1. https://supersimple.com/song/pinocchio/ – ‘The Pinnocchio’ song
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnma-uvbw7Q – ‘The chief’ movement activity for the ‘The chief’ activity
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X9LvC9WkkQ&ab – ‘Hungarian Dance’ song for the ‘The chief’ activity
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ZKaR-9Kt4&ab – ‘Balada’ song for the ‘Fruit salad’ activity
5. https://supersimple.com/song/when-i-grow-up/ – ‘When I grow up’ song
6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDLu2fsRUQk&ab – ‘Pat – a – cake, pat – a – cake baker’s man’ song for the ‘Pat – a – cake, pat – a – cake baker’s man’ activity