Thank you to all the families who helped us find materials to help us learn a bit about Fairtrade.
We spent two weeks learning a little bit about what this means and the children really picked up on the theme of being fair.
We watched youtube clips about what fairtrade means and about where our chocolate comes from.
Freddy and Flora
A day in the life of a cocoa farmer
We looked closely at the fairtrade logo. One of our children described it as "The blue is the sky and the green is the fields. The bit in the middle is the farmer." Our peedie man below is demonstrating the farmer saying 'yes' just like in the logo because he is getting treated fairly.
We had a look at different products to see if we could find out if they were fairtrade or not.
We wore our fairtrade stickers to remind us to have a look at home for fairtrade items and some of us brought in a few items for our friends to look at.
We noticed that our bananas for snack were fairtrade.
We went on a walk through the school to see if we could spot some of the fairtrade work that the bigger classes were doing.
We create a chart of items that were fairtrade and ones that are not. This led to some deep discussions about the types of food we have at home.
We finished our week by baking some fairtrade chocolate chip and banana muffins.
There is a display of all our learning from this week just above the caddie coat pegs at the entrance of the nursery. You can find the recipe that we used in our baking up here as well as the children's thoughts on what they learned about fairtrade.
