Page 1 - Spring Drama Lesson 13 - Being Healthy

Resources for Spring Lesson 13: Being Healthy
Activity: Chop, Chop
Tell the children that they are going to make a healthy vegetable soup. “First we need a giant pot.” Mime taking out a giant pot and the children should naturally copy you. Ask a volunteer who has their hand up to suggest a vegetable to include. Mime placing the suggested vegetable onto your chopping board (flat palm of left hand facing up). Use your right hand to chop the suggested vegetable on top of the chopping board to the pulse as you say the first, second and fourth lines. Brush the chopped up vegetable into the pot to the pulse as you say the third line. Stirring action to the pulse for “Stir it round...” Have a taste. "I think we need some more vegetables." Choose another volunteer to suggest another vegetable and repeat the rhyme. Repeat this sequence several times. You can experiment with using a baby knife (saying the rhyme quickly with small, quick movements) for smaller vegetables, and a sword (saying the rhyme slowly with big, slow movements) for bigger vegetables. End by getting the children to pour themselves a large bowl of vegetable soup. Everyone counts to three and guzzles it down speedily. Then you say “Mmmm, delicious!” using a loud, silly voice.
Lyrics
Chop, chop, choppity chop.
Chop off the bottom and chop off the top. What we have left we will put in the pot. Chop, chop, choppity chop.
Stir it round, stir it round, Tell me what you have found.
Other ideas!
1. Try using the rhyme to make a fruit salad or another healthy food instead!
2. Try to make several different vegetable shapes using the entire body. Talk to the children about the differences between the different vegetable’s shapes. E.g. A
carrot is long and thin, whereas a potato has a more round shape.
3. Make a real vegetable soup or fruit salad and say the rhyme with your children
as you chop up the ingredients.
EYFS/Educational aims
PSED (MR), CL (L/A) & UW (PC)
To listen to other children’s vegetable suggestions
PSED (MR), (SC/SA) & (F/B), CL (S) & EAD (BI)
To take turns suggesting vegetables to be chopped up and added to the soup
CL (U)
To understand the meaning of words through actions
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