Shopping 🛒

Set up your home corner as a supermarket/food shop. Use JIT Infant Toolkit “Write” tab to create a simple shopping list using the food word bank or ask students to attempt to type their own words. Once written can children find all of the items of food in the home corner by reading the word themselves or using the reading function within Write?

Ask students to fill their own shopping basket with food items using the shopping basket template (see link below) in JIT Infant Toolkit “Paint”. To extend the activity give students a pre-written shopping list to read and then draw.

Use the template (see link below) “Bradley’s Bun Shop” in JIT Infant Toolkit “Turtle” to explore giving instructions to a sprite using the song “Five Currant Buns in a Baker’s Shop”. This could be as carpet session or one to one.

Use the template (see link below) “Mr Wolf’s Pancakes” in JIT Infant Toolkit “Turtle” to explore giving instructions to a sprite using the book “Mr Wolf’s Pancakes” by Jan Fearnely. This could be a carpet session or one to one.

Use “Pictogram” in JIT Infant Toolkit - tell the children that they are going to go shopping for sandwich ingredients. Firstly, we need to ask what sandwich filling people want so we can buy the correct amount.

Use “Animate” in JIT Infant Toolkit to recreate the story “Shopping Basket” by John Burningham. Use the animals from the story or make up new ones using the animal clipart in j2e Toolsuite.

Go on a local trip, explore shops that are nearby. Take lots of photos of each shop you visit, using “Mix” in JIT Infant Toolkit create a shopping guide for your local area.

Simply-drawn, colourful symbols for use in SEND, EAL and beyond to illustrate concepts in a clear and concise way has a range of printables. Within the symbols area, you will find a range of different shopping symbols to use within your teaching.