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- - - - Vegetables grow either above ground or below ground. (Bunning, 2024)
      - Go to a local garden and observe the different types of plants and state if the vegetables are growing underground or above ground.
  - - - 5 main colour groups: red, orange/yellow, white/brown, green, blue/purple (Vegetables.co.nz, 2022)
      - The teacher will make a matching game and the learners can play the game by comparing, classifying and sorting vegetables into colour or shape categories.
      - Red- peppers, tomatoes White/brown- Cauliflower, mushroom. Green- Broccoli, Lettuce Orange/yellow- carrot, pepper Blue/purple- beetroot, cabbage
  - - - Vegetables grow from different parts of a plant. (Postharvest Management of Vegetables, n.d)
      - Carrots- root, lettuce- leaves, corn- seeds, asparagus-stem.
      - The Teacher will set up a vegetable discovery table with different types of vegetables that show the different parts of where a vegetable comes from on a plant. The learners will be given pictures to colour in of the different vegetables they explored.
- - - - The teacher will teach the learners about different types of climates, such as hot, cold, tropical and temperate. She will teach the learners that certain vegetables grow in specific climates. Hot-cabbage, chillies, cold- cucumber, pumpkin.(Wonder, 2024)
      - The teacher will place an A3 paper of the country on the floor, we will have 4 different stickers, representing the different climate zones. The teacher will show the learners pictures of different vegetables that grow in S.A. We will place the stickers onto the cities that experience different climates. The teacher will ask the learners their favourite vegetables and we will place the pictures onto the cities in which they grow.
  - - - Vegetables contain important nutrients, vitamins, minerals and fibre which are all import to keep our bodies healthy and strong.(Smith, 2023)
      - Carrots help our eyesight, cauliflower helps our heart and stomach.
      - Role play activity: Learners will play a game whereby they get to purchase some food from the grocery store and state whether it's healthy or not. When they are they done, they will work on fine motor skills and cut out some pictures of vegetables from newspapers.
- - - - The pre-school feeding scheme is not providing the learners with enough vegetables in their daily meals. The class will plan and make salads that the teachers can add to the learners meal to ensure they have a healthy balanced diet.
      - When eating our meals, it's important to include at least one vegetable with our dinner, Vegetables are healthy foods that give our bodies energy.(Smith, 2023)
  - - - The learners are going on term 3 school holidays and are worried that their vegetable garden isn't going to be watered, the learners need to make a watering can that can be placed above the garden that will water the plants while they are on holiday.
      - Water is an essential part of a plant. It helps the seed to grow and turn into a plant. Just like how our bodies need vegetables, vegetables need water to function.(Richmond, 2021)