Finding all Possibilities


• In one part of the story, the skeleton dog falls apart. To show that the skeletons have put the dog back together wrongly the word ‘woof’ is mixed up (this links with the word activity above).


• Use magnetic letters or write the four letters on cards. Look at the letters in the word then jumble them up. How many different ways can the letters be mixed up? [9]


• Ask the children to move the cards to make a different arrangement each time and write the ‘word’ down (e.g. wofo, wfoo, oofw).


• Alternatively, have several sets of the letters in the word written on paper that children can stick down each time they find a new order.


UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD Naming Parts of the Body


• Draw around a child on black sugar paper. • After looking at skeletons and talking about them, ask the children to draw the bones using chalk. • Write labels together and add them to the body. • Repeat with several children if time allows.


Stripy Berry Dessert


• If you have made or are planning to make Stripy Berry Dessert, look at the recipe card with the children and talk about the ingredients.


• Ask the children if they think this is a healthy dessert and if so why? (It is very healthy because it has lots of fruit and yoghurt in it.)


• Tell the children that yoghurt is a dairy food, which means that it is made from milk. • Show the children the Eatwell plate. • Milk and dairy foods are in the blue section of the plate and (in this country) are mainly milk, yoghurt and cheese.


• Tell the children that milk products are very important, especially for growing children, because they help bones and teeth to develop. This is why children are given milk to drink at school.


• If possible, provide old magazines for children and ask them to find pictures of dairy products. • Get them to cut out the pictures and stick them on to a large blue paper plate or smaller individual ones.


Frozen Yoghurt


• Let the children carefully pour yoghurt into shapes or ice-cube trays and put them in the freezer to make a delicious healthy snack.


• Ask them to describe how the yoghurt has changed (and think about freezing and melting).


• Together write up or draw a picture sequence showing what you have done to model how to recall the experience. Use the following headings: • What we needed • What we did • What we found out


Dance like Skeletons! UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD


• If possible, find an example of a skeleton dance online to show the children – e.g. the 1929 short Disney animation called The Skeleton Dance.


• Find some suitable music – e.g. ‘Danse Macabre’ by Camille Saint-Saens (which is the music used in the Disney animation).


Let the children try moving to the music like skeletons. In ‘Danse Macabre’ xylophones are played to sound like bones.


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