Peapods

The other day in the supermarket, I spotted some peapods.  When I was teaching I used to grow peas in the nursery garden for the children to explore, and they could help themselves to the bounty when they were playing outside!  I decided to get some for my two, as it has been too rainy to get outside and plant peas.  I bought a handful and they cost me about 60p!  They had a wonderful time with the peapods, here are some of the things they were learning:  

How do we open this?

Look what's inside!

I have to use my fingers carefully to take these out of here!

These peas are rather yummy!

We talked about lots of things, like the colour they could see (they can both say 'green', just about!), what they tasted like (they were really sweet, and quite crunchy), and we listened to the 'pop' which you get if you squeeze across the top of the pod.  They both had lots of fun saying 'pop, pop'!

This was a great activity for language development and practising using their fingers.






And someone decided he could find something just as tasty as the peas...