Oliver's Vegetables

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These handy story sequencing cards are great for increasing and assessing familiarity with the main events in this story as well as for starting discussions about the different key points and story structure. Explore more resources, discover funding opportunities, ask questions, and learn with other gardeners in the Kids Garden Community. My grandchildren (aged 3 and 4) love this little book as a bedtime story and I bought a further copy as a birthday present for another 4 year old who absolutely loves vegetables and helps her grandparents to grow them. I recommend this book to young children as it is a new, funny alternative to approach the subject of healthy eating, and the pictures will allow children to be inspired as a result of it. We have been learning all about healthy and unhealthy foods, and about the importance of a healthy and balanced diet.

From major author Vivian French, this colourful seek-and-find tale puts the joys of healthy eating at the top of the menu.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I really liked the story, the way the days of the week are worked in, the way Oliver opens up to trying new things to eat, and even the little inside joke at the end between him and his grandparents. During each discovery, the children I was with enjoyed a discussion about their favourite foods and whether they liked or disliked the vegetable Oliver was trying.

She has won many awards for her books, and is regularly invited to festivals including Cheltenham and the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. Neither my children nor any others I know would have been fooled by Grandad's ploys - they would probably have enjoyed looking for them, but their mouths would still have remained firmly clamped shut in the face of spinach, peas, etc.One day Grandpa sets him a challenge that helps him to learn to try new foods from the vegetable patch and Oliver is surprised by what he finds out.

Our Oliver's Vegetables story sequencing resource is great for making sure children fully comprehend the story and can also be a great help when they're writing their own creative stories. This lesson plan provides activity ideas to accompany the delightful children’s book Oliver’s Vegetablesby Vivian French. Small taste sessions after each new vegetable are a must and it really encourage children to become curious about new and exciting vegetables. Students will discover we eat many different plant parts and that vegetables are an important part of our diet providing essential nutrients and fiber. Over the week, Oliver finds carrots, spinach, rhubarb, cabbage, beetroot and peas, tries them and eats them all up.In layman’s terminology, a fruit is something that comes from a plant that is sweet and usually eaten as a dessert or snack. One day Oliver goes to his grandparents’ house – where they grow their own vegetables -to the disgust of Oliver, who insists ‘I don’t eat vegetables! We borrowed it from the library and will be picking up a copy of our own soon as we can't bear to part with it!

Bring in a couple of potted plant to provide live samples of each part ,or take a walk in the classroom garden or schoolyard and identify roots, stems, leaves, and flowers on plants you find outside. An excellent book for parents with slightly fussy children, which also introduces the days of the week. Oliver is a fussy eater who would only eat chips and nothing else until he plays a game with his Grandpa. Continue your discussion of Oliver’s Vegetables by asking why his grandparents wanted him to eat his vegetables?

Parts may vary greatly in appearance and number among plant types, but they carry out similar functions.