Breakfast Cereal activity ideas

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Get the day off to a good start using our cross-curricular activities about breakfast cereals. Choose from a selection of topics aimed at 5-7-year-olds, covering subjects including geography, science and spoken language.

Lesson highlights:

  • Lead a discussion about different types of breakfast cereals
  • Find out about where wheat grows
  • Learn how cereal gets from farm to fork
  • Learn about breakfasts around the world

Curriculum

England

Spoken language

  • Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge.
  • Use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary. 
  • Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments. 
  • Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas.

Design and technology

  • Understand where food comes from. 
  • Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes.

Mathematics

  • Interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables.

ICT

  • Use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content.
Scotland

Spoken language

  • I can show my understanding of what I listen to or watch by responding to and asking different kinds of questions.

Design and technology

  • Experience a sense of enjoyment and achievement when preparing simple healthy food and drinks. 
  • Explore and discover where foods come from as I choose, prepare and taste different foods.

Mathematics

  • I have explored a variety of ways in which data is presented and can ask and answer questions about the information it contains.

ICT

  • I can access, retrieve and use information from electronic sources to support, enrich or extend learning in different contexts.
Wales

Spoken language

  • Listen and respond appropriately and effectively with growing attention and concentration. 
  • Extend their vocabulary through activities that encourage their interest in words.

Mathematics

  • Represent collected data initially using real objects, pictures or diagrams, progressing to a variety of simple charts, graphs, diagrams, tables or databases.
Northern Ireland

Spoken language

  • Express thoughts, feelings and opinions in response to personal experiences, imaginary situations, literature, media and curricular topics and activities. 
  • Present ideas and information with some structure and sequence. 
  • Devise and ask questions to find information in social situations and across the curriculum.

Design and technology

  • Recognising and valuing the options for a healthy lifestyle, including the benefits of exercise, rest, healthy eating and hygiene.

Mathematics

  • Collect data, record and present it using real objects, drawings, tables, mapping diagrams, simple graphs and ICT software.

ICT

  • Find, select and use information from a given digital source.

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