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3. Writng Tasks
4. Topic
Writing and Topic Activities
for week beginning 18th May
Comprehension Task:
Click here for this week's comprehension about VE Day, which we celebrated last week. There are three levels: the stars at the bottom of the pages tells you the level.
Reading
Task 1:
Read out aloud the ingredients on the back of a tin or cereal box to an adult.
Can you add the sound buttons onto three words?
Task 2:
Find a cooking book in the house or online and read the ingredients needed to make something.
Task 3:
Find a food leaflet in the house and read some of the items.
- Make a list of the food in alphabetical order and add on sound buttons.
Task 4:
Read a variety of books and make a list of all the different types of food you find.
Writing
Ask your child to:
Task 1:
Create a shopping list for the week. Can your child group the items into food groups on their list e.g. fruit and vegetables, meat, dairy.
Task 2:
Write a recipe for a healthy meal of their choice. Can they use subheadings for the ingredients and instructions.
Task 3:
Write a set of instructions for making toast. Can they use imperative (bossy) verbs?
Task 4:
Design a new label for a cereal box. What eye catching information will you add? Can you use an exclamation mark?
Task 5:
Write a poem about your favourite food. Will it rhyme?
Task 6:
Design a new milkshake.
- Which ingredients will you include?
- Can you label the milkshake?
- Will you have a mascot that is linked to your new
creation? Can you make the milkshake?
Topic:
Food
The project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more food. Learning may focus on where different foods originate from, what makes a healthy meal, opportunities to cook etc .
Task 1:
Balanced diet:
Show your child this bbc Bitesize idea about how to have a balanced diet.
Task 2:
Play these games from the Curriculum for Wales site about healthy eating.
- What do we have today?
Task 3:
Look in the kitchen to see if you can create an A-Z list of foods.
Task 4:
Fruit and vegetables
- Draw pictures of fruit and vegetables in your house. Label the fruit and vegetables and place in alphabetical order.
Task 5:
Sorting activity:
Collect food from the kitchen and sort into healthy and unhealthy foods.
Task 6:
Design a poster
Think about the foods you like to eat and food that you need to eat to keep you healthy.
Create a poster that you can put in the kitchen or in the school hall.
- Will you be able to use any food wrappers or make your poster interactive?
Task 7:
Healthy Lunchbox:
- Can you play this game from the ‘Food-a fact of life’ site (you will need to enable flash to play this) and make a healthy lunchbox?
Traditional Food:
Many cultures have various dishes of food to celebrate their festivals.
Task 8:
Find out about a festival and compare it to a different festival.
- What are the similarities?
- What are the differences?
- How is the food prepared?
- Do you have any traditional food you enjoy with your family?
Restaurant:
Task 9:
- Can you plan a menu?
- Think about what you would like to have on your menu.
- Can you design a menu for a vegetarian?
- Can you design a menu for a vegan?
- Will you have options on your menu for people who have allergies?
Task 10:
Look around the house for any leaflets or take away menus.
- What price is the food?
- Can you do any meal deals?
Task 11:
Designing a school menu.
- Can you design a new school menu?
- What could you add?
- What would you keep the same?
- Will it be a healthy school menu?
- Can you find pictures or draw pictures to add to your menu?
- Plan out your menu and remember to include prices.
- Will you have a
different menu everyday?
Task 12:
Cooking:
Find a few recipes and check if you have the ingredients at home and cook a meal for your family.
Think about a starter, main and dessert.
- Can you cook as a family?
- Who will do the measuring?
Task 13:
Fruit survey:
Ask in your family the different fruits they like to eat. Collect the information and add it to your tally chart.
- Can you represent this information in a particular way?
Task 14:
Fruit and vegetables printing:
Look at the work of the artist:
Lynn Flavell (link to a bbc video).
- How does she represent fruit and vegetables?
- Can you create a piece of artwork in the style of Lynn Flavell.
Task 15:
Look at the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo (link to a pdf about his life)
- Using different drawing materials, can you create a picture of your own?
