Home Learning Suggestions As part of your topic on ‘Food Glorious Food’, you are required to complete 5 pieces of home learning. You can select any activities from the list below or come up with your own ideas to suggest to your teacher. You can complete more during your free time on Friday afternoon if you wish.
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Working Together
Write a narrative about your Christmas Day. Include dialogue between the characters and descriptive writing to describe your lunch
Write a restaurant review about your favourite meal. Include details about the flavour, quality of service, ambience and value for money.
Write a magazine interview with Scrooge in which he explains why he has decided to change his attitude towards money and now wants to spend it on his friends and family.
Find a recipe to make a Victoria Sponge cake. Look at the ingredients and scale up the amounts to make a cake for each member of your class (including the teachers!)
Using time zones, what time would it be in each of these places if Santa leaves the North Pole at midnight to deliver his presents? London, New York, Tokyo, Sydney and Lima. Find the times for 3 more cities around the world Look around outside your home. Design and make a Christmas decoration using natural materials with zero ‘food miles’/is ‘carbon neutral’.
Find 6 gift items and imagine they have been reduced by either 50%, 30% or 25% in the Christmas sales. What was the original price? The value of the reduction? The sale price?
Create a menu for your family’s favourite meal. Help to make the meal and prepare the table and then sit down and enjoy it together.
With a member of your family, go and visit an elderly relative or friend and ask them what Christmas was like when they were your age.
If you buy a banana in a shop, how many ‘food miles’ has it travelled? Research where it was grown, where it was shipped from, where it landed and how it got to the shop? Make some bread at home. Photograph the process and add the photos to your project book
Santa has finished delivering his presents and has brought home a souvenir for Mrs Clause. Make a souvenir model of a landmark from one of the cities he has visited (eg Paris – the Eiffel Tower)