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Resources for Spring Drama Lesson Four: Food Activity: ‘Chop, Chop’ (traditional)
Make some imaginary fruit salad with your child! Mime taking out a giant bowl. Ask your child to suggest a fruit to include in the fruit salad. Mime placing the suggested fruit onto your chopping board (flat palm of left hand facing up). Use your right hand to chop the suggested fruit on top of the chopping board to the pulse as you say the first, second and fourth lines. Brush the chopped up fruit into the bowl 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 fruit." Ask your child for another suggested fruit and repeat the sequence several times. You can experiment with using a baby knife (saying the rhyme quickly with small, quick movements) for smaller fruits, and a sword (saying the rhyme slowly with big, slow movements) for bigger fruits. End by asking your child to serve themselves a large bowl of fruit salad. Count to three and guzzle it down!
Other Ideas!
Try using the rhyme to make a vegetable soup, a vegetable pie or some ice cream flavours instead!
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.
EYFS/Educational aims (SEE KEY TO THE AIMS ON THE NEXT PAGE) PSED (MR), CL (L/A) & UW (PC)
To listen to other children’s fruit suggestions
PSED (MR), (SC/SA) & (F/B), CL (S) & EAD (BI)
To take turns suggesting a fruit to be chopped up and added to the fruit salad
CL (U)
To understand the meaning of words through actions
L (R)
To develop an awareness of rhyme
PD (MH) & EAD (MM)
To develop coordination and control through performing the chopping action in time with the pulse
M (SSM)
To develop language for and an understanding of size (through chopping up small and big fruits and showing the size differences through your actions)
M (SSM), L (R) & CL (LA) & (S)
To pre-empt and join in with the lyrics which follow a repetitive structure/pattern
UW (PC) & EAD (BI)
To imitate everyday actions (making fruit salad) from own family and cultural background in pretend play
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