Food Resources for Primary Teachers

Dive into these food resources packed with playful activities as you head to the restaurant. Children can also enjoy the story The Stolen Smell and design their own menus. Yum!

Resources included
Full Lesson Plan including four activities
Printables and worksheets
Online resource links

Activities
Comprehension, speaking and listening, drawing / painting, design a restaurant, create a menu

Learning objectives

English

• listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
• give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes, including for expressing feelings
• use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising,
• imagining and exploring ideas
• listening to and discussing a wide range of poems, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently
• making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done
• predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far
• re-reading what they have written to check that it makes sense
• discuss what they have written with the teacher or other pupils
• develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by:

• writing narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real and fictional)
• writing about real events

Art

• use drawing and imagination to develop their ideas
• Use tone, pattern, line and shape in pictures.

These printables were created by children’s author and tutor Claire Vorster. Enjoy!