Reception Home LearningWeek 5 of School Closure

Monday 4 th May 20 Everyday: As always, your child should practise their reading skills.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ Share story books together – there are plenty of animated books on YouTube if you do not have many books at home

i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXCie36i7Bk Use your child’s phonics keyring and help them retain their sound knowledge. Read and then spell all tricky words.

Summer 1 Theme: What’s for Dinner? This half term, we would have been learning about food, healthy eating, balanced diets, where food comes from, growing plants for food and food chains.

Communication and Language:This week we would be learning all about where our food comes from – looking at food from around the world and exploring the journey from raw ingredients to the food we eat from our plate. It would also maybe be timely to talk about the people who grow and manufacture and sell the food we eat during this unusual time? There are some book suggestions below to help start your discussions but just talking over the dinner table about the food on your plate is as good a place to start as any?

Where did your breakfast come from: cereal, milk, juice? Have you tried different kinds of food in other countries: on holiday, visiting family? How is food kept fresh: chilled, frozen, dried, pickled, tinned? Where in the world is favourite food from: pizza, rice, pasta, bananas? What foods grow in hot countries? Which foods grow in the ground, the sea, on trees?

Writing:Your child may also enjoy:

Sequencing pictures of the journey of one of their favourite foods – from the farm to the fork.

Writing an alphabet list of foods. Write labels for foods in your kitchen to say which country it came from. Writing a letter to thank someone who helped provide you with food:

milkman, farmer, shop worker. Draw and label your foods from around the world and stick on a map.

Book list : We were going to read lots of stories this half term: Some would be about mini beasts and others would be about food and growing plants. Here are some of them:

The Very Hungry CaterpillarHoney BiscuitsBiscuit BearHanda’s Surprise The Bad Tempered LadybirdThe Very Busy SpiderThe Very Quiet CricketWhat the Ladybird Heard

The Crunching Munching CaterpillarOliver’s Fruit SaladJasper’s BeanstalkThe Light House Keeper’s LunchSupertatoThe Tiger Who Came to Tea

You may already have some of these titles at home. If not, most of these books are available on YouTube, sometimes as animated stories and sometimes read by other people. You do not need to read all of them!

The Key Learning Points this week:For the children to:

Know that different foods are grown, made and eaten in different parts of the world.

Know that some foods are changed before they reach our plate: cheese, bread, corn flakes etc.

Know where some of their favourite foods come from.

Know the journey of a key food eg: milk. Know some of the different types of food –

Practical activities you may wish to try: Below I have included some photographs of activities and ideas that I’m sure you would enjoy trying and help make learning fun – try any or all of them, it’s up to you.

Some other suggestions you might like to try this week:

Draw a big map of the world then stick pictures/labels on of food from different countries.

Look in your kitchen and make groups of food from different parts of the world – find the country of origin label?

Find out the national dish of a country and make it: pizza – Italy,

Practical activities: