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Years 3 and 4 – Home Learning
Chocolate
English Writing – Advertisements
Design an advertisement for your very own chocolate bar (which you
have created). It can be a poster or a television advert. Remember,
you want to persuade people to buy this chocolate bar.
Things you will need to include:
A snappy slogan (Such as ‘Have a break, have a Kitkat!)
A tempting description
A picture of your chocolate bar
Maybe some alliteration
Appealing adjectives
Maybe even a rhetorical question (How do you eat yours?)
Reading – Performance Poetry
Read the poem ‘Chocolate Cake’ by Michael Rosen.
Watch http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/michael-rosen-chocolate-
cake/8833.html
Now practise performing the poem out loud. Maybe even perform it to your
family and friends. Or even make a video of yourself performing it.
SPaG – Powerful Adjectives
Adverts use powerful adjectives to make the product they are
selling sound more appealing.
Underline the powerful adjectives in each of these sentences.
The tantalising taste will leave your taste buds zinging.
With each exquisite bite, the magnificent flavours burst
through.
Just one succulent piece of chocolate will leave you wanting
more.
Now use these powerful adjectives to write some super sentences of
your own.
delicious, delectable, appetizing, velvety, zingy, mouth-watering
Spellings – Words ending in ‘ate’
The word chocolate ends in the /ut/ sound and is spelt ‘ate’. Many other
words also end in the same way such as accurate and private.
How many other /ut/ words spelt ‘ate’ can you find or think of?
Try using 5 of these words in sentences.
Reading Comprehension – The Chocolate Factory
Answer these questions:
OWI – Look carefully at the picture.
Write down your observations, thoughts and ideas about this picture. Use
these sentence starters to help you.
Science – Melting Point Investigation Geography – Locating Cacoa Trees
Investigate which chocolate melts fastest – milk, dark or
white chocolate or any chocolate bars of your choice.
The ingredient with the lowest melting point in chocolate
is cocoa butter. It has a melting point of around 36oC.
Look at the ingredients on your chosen chocolate bars
and then use this information to predict which type of
chocolate you think will melt the fastest.
Plan and carry out an investigation to test your prediction. Think
about how you are going to make your test fair!
To carry out the investigation, you could place a piece of each
chocolate on some paper and put it in the sun (on a warm day) or
under a lamp. Observe the chocolate regularly and record what you
see.
Record what you found out and why you think this happened.
Challenge: The melting point of chocolate is around 36oC. The
average temperature of a human is 37oC. Can you use this
information to explain why chocolate melts in your hand if you hold it
too long?
See below for recording sheet.
Where does chocolate come from? Watch this to find out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lZygrg_PF2
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Chocolate comes from the fruit of the Cacoa tree. These trees grow in hot
rainy climates.
Task one:
On your World Map draw a line for the Equator, the Topic of Cancer and
the Tropic of Capricorn. Shade in the areas that have a tropical climate.
Task two:
The following countries are the top producers of cocoa beans:
Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire)
Ghana in Africa
Indonesia in Asia
Brazil in South America
Ecuador in South America
Locate and label these on your World Map.
Task three:
What do you notice about where these countries are positioned? What
does this tell us?
Design Technology – Chocolate Bars Art and Design – Wrapping design
Design and make your own chocolate bar.
You could do this by melting chocolate (with an adult) and then
adding different fillings such as sweets, biscuits, dried fruit or
cereal. When you are happy with your mixture, pour into a nice bar-
like shape onto some greaseproof paper and allow the chocolate to
set.
You could experiment with different chocolates and fillings to find
out which is your favourite.
Design a new wrapper for the brand new chocolate bar you have made.
Firstly though, you will need to think of a brilliant name for the chocolate
bar!
Think about:
What colours you will choose?
What lettering will you use?
Will you add a slogan?
Will you add a picture?
How will you make your chocolate bar stand out from the rest?
You can use the template below if you want to!
History Maths Fun Read through a brief history of chocolate.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zngsqp3
Use this website and any other websites or books to help you put the
chocolate time line in order with the correct dates. (See below)
Use your maths knowledge to solve these easy chocolate problems.
Now create some harder chocolate problems for an adult to solve!
Just for Fun – Design a Quiz Just for Fun – Some more ideas!
Use Word, Powerpoint or just a piece of paper (if you don’t have
access to a computer) and create your own quiz about chocolate. Use
facts that you already know and research some other facts to create
some questions for your friends and family to answer. Here’s a few
ideas to get you started:
What kind of chocolate bar are you? Find our here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/quizzes/what-chocolate-bar-are-you-
quiz?collection=personality-quizzes
Bake a Blue Peter chocolate mug cake in just ten minutes!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/bp-chocolate-mug-cake
Hold a chocolate tasting session with your family.
Break up some different chocolate bars.
Blindfold a member of your family.
Can they guess the chocolate bar just from the flavour?
A History of Chocolate Timeline – Order these pictures to show the histopry of chocolate
Where does chocolate come from? Chocolate comes from the fruit of
the Cacoa tree. These trees grow
in hot rainy climates.
Task one:
On your World Map draw a line for
the Equator, the Topic of Cancer
and the Tropic of Capricorn.
Shade in the areas that have a
tropical climate.
Task two:
The following countries are the top
producers of cocoa beans:
Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire)
Ghana in Africa
Indonesia in Asia
Brazil in South America
Ecuador in South America
Locate and label these on your
World Map.
Task three:
What do you notice about where these countries are positioned? What does this tell us?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chocolate Wrapper Template
Science Investigation
We are investigating _____________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________
How will you carry out this investigation?
How will you make it a fair test? What is your prediction and why?
Observe the different types of chocolate and record what happens over time on the Observation Sheet.
What did your results tell you about each type of chocolate?
Why do you think this happened?
Observation Sheet
Decide how often you are going to observe and record what is happening to the chocolate.
Then at each observation time, draw what each piece of chocolate looks like, and circle the
scale on how much you think it has melted, with 0=not melted at all and 10=completely
melted.
Chocolate Cake
I love chocolate cake.
And when I was a boy
I loved it even more.
Sometimes we used to have it for tea
and Mum used to say,
'If there's any left over
you can have it to take to school
tomorrow to have at playtime.'
And the next day I would take it to school
wrapped up in tin foil
open it up at playtime
and sit in the corner of the playground
eating it,
you know how the icing on top
is all shiny and it cracks as you
bite into it,
and there's that other kind of icing in
the middle
and it sticks to your hands and you
can lick your fingers
and lick your lips
oh it's lovely.
yeah.
Anyway,
once we had this chocolate cake for tea
and later I went to bed
but while I was in bed
I found myself waking up
licking my lips
and smiling.
I woke up proper.
'The chocolate cake.'
It was the first thing
1 thought of.
I could almost see it
so I thought,
what if I go downstairs
and have a little nibble, yeah?
It was all dark
everyone was in bed
so it must have been really late
but I got out of bed,
crept out of the door
There's always a creaky floorboard, isn't there?
Past Mum and Dad's room,
careful not to tread on bits of broken toys
or bits of Lego
you know what it's like treading on Lego
with your bare feet,
yowwww
shhhhhhh
downstairs
into the kitchen
open the cupboard
and there it is
all shining.
So I take it out of the cupboard
put it on the table
and I see that
there's a few crumbs lying about on the plate,
so I lick my finger and run my finger all over the crumbs
scooping them up
and put them into my mouth.
oooooooommmmmmmmm
nice.
Then
I look again
and on one side where it's been cut,
it's all crumbly.
So I take a knife
I think I'll just tidy that up a bit,
cut off the crumbly bits
scoop them all up
and into the mouth
oooooommm mmmm
nice.
Look at the cake again.
That looks a bit funny now,
one side doesn't match the other
I'll just even it up a bit, eh?
Take the knife
and slice.
This time the knife makes a little cracky noise
as it goes through that hard icing on top.
A whole slice this time,
into the mouth.
Oh the icing on top
and the icing in the middle
ohhhhhh oooo mmmmmm.
But now
I can't stop myself
Knife -
I just take any old slice at it
and I've got this great big chunk
and I'm cramming it in
what a greedy pig
but it's so nice,
and there's another
and another and I'm squealing and I'm smacking my lips
and I'm stuffing myself with it
and
before I know
I've eaten the lot.
The whole lot.
I look at the plate.
It's all gone.
Oh no
they're bound to notice, aren't they,
a whole chocolate cake doesn't just disappear
does it?
What shall I do?
I know. I'll wash the plate up,
and the knife
and put them away and maybe no one
will notice, eh?
So I do that
and creep creep creep
back to bed
into bed
doze off
licking my lips
with a lovely feeling in my belly.
Mmmmrnmmmmm.
In the morning I get up,
downstairs,
have breakfast,
Mum's saying,
'Have you got your dinner money?'
and I say,
'Yes.'
'And don't forget to take some chocolate cake with you.'
I stopped breathing.
'What's the matter,' she says,
'you normally jump at chocolate cake?'
I'm still not breathing,
and she's looking at me very closely now.
She's looking at me just below my mouth.
'What's that?' she says.
'What's what?' I say.
'What's that there?'
'Where?'
'There,' she says, pointing at my chin.
'I don't know,' I say.
'It looks like chocolate,' she says.
'It's not chocolate is it?'
No answer.
'Is it?'
'I don't know.'
She goes to the cupboard
looks in, up, top, middle, bottom,
turns back to me.
'It's gone.
It's gone.
You haven't eaten it, have you?'
'I don't know.'
'You don't know. You don't know if you've eaten a whole
chocolate cake or not?
When? When did you eat it?'
So I told her,
and she said
well what could she say?
'That's the last time I give you any cake to take
to school.
Now go. Get out
no wait
not before you've washed your dirty sticky face.'
I went upstairs
looked in the mirror
and there it was,
just below my mouth,
a chocolate smudge.
The give-away.
Maybe she'll forget about it by next week.
Michael Rosen