Monday – Do Chips grow on trees?
Who knows where chips come from? McDonalds is just down the road!
How many children these days have actually dug up a potato, peeled it and cut it in to chips?
There are many ideas and free activity sheets all about potatoes from the Tesco Eat Happy Project website.
Tuesday – Continue the ‘Where does it come from?’ food theme by talking about milk.
If you have the Flip-It cards, you might use the Free downloadable worksheet – Where Does It Come From? All the cards have a number which relates to this.
Wednesday – Is a lemon sour or sweet?
Hand around a lemon and get children to describe it. What does it look, feel and smell like? Cut one up and taste it. Photograph their reactions!
Look at images such as crisps, cake and grapefruit and identify whether they are sweet, sour or salty.
Thursday – Compare everyday materials
Gather together a selection of random food-related objects (such as a potato, a banana, a tin of beans etc.) and get children to come up with one word to describe their main properties.
Help children to expand their scientific vocabulary using the great free top science worksheet.
Friday – Where does food go between your mouth and your stomach?
What do children think? What happens to our food once we have chewed and swallowed it?
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With thanks to Sally Northen for writing this post.
