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Written by Monica van Dam. Illustrated by Terry Allen. © Ready-Ed Publications - 2001.

Published by Ready-Ed Publications (2001) P.O. Box 276 Greenwood Perth W.A. 6024 Email: info@readyed.com.au Website: www.readyed.com.au

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Introduction to Cloze Activities Cloze activities are principally designed to encourage children to predict words using meaning, syntax and graphophonics. Prediction is a very important strategy for successful reading and must be encouraged in all children.

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This publication aims to incorporate cloze activities into a whole language program. The cloze activities are meaningful and purposeful, and are not designed to be isolated time fillers. Ideas for introducing and following up the cloze activities are set out in the teaching notes. The activities are linked to the curriculum areas of language, maths, health, social studies and science.

The cloze activities should be used flexibly. They are not necessarily designed for whole class independent desk work. They can be worked on in pairs, small groups or as a whole class. The work-sheets are designed to cater for individual needs within a particular class. The reading levels and interests of children between the ages of 6 and 8 can vary immensely, making it difficult to design a work-sheet for a whole class to complete at the same time. Some topics have a set of three similar activities that only vary in difficulty. Other topics have three very different activities to suit differing interests between the 6 and 8 year olds.

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cloze activities, and how the skills being taught relate to developing their reading. Similarly, the cloze activities are designed to be shared and discussed. There is not always one correct answer. Discussing and justifying word choices adds to the value of the cloze activity and should continually be encouraged in a non-threatening environment.

Ensure that these activities are enjoyable by incorporating them in real experiences as much as possible. This will add to the children’s learning immensely, and ensure that the work-sheets are meaningful and purposeful.

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Contents Theme

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Nursery Rhymes .................... 4 Growing Vegetables............... 8

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Colours ............................... 12

Houses and Homes .............. 28 Grandparents...................... 33 Number .............................. 37

Patterns ..............................

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Nursery Rhymes - Teaching Notes Before Cloze A ctivity: Activity:

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1. Collect a range of books, tapes, videos and CD-ROMs featuring nursery rhymes. Make these freely available for use in the classroom. Tapes of nursery rhymes being read or sung can be set up as a listening post. Reading and chanting nursery rhymes together as a class also helps children to become familiar with them. For older children, some less well-known rhymes may be used as well as tongue twisters and limericks. Time for a Rhyme (Nelson Big Book) is an excellent starting point for the 6 year olds and particularly good as a shared book. Far Out Brussel Sprout (June Factor, Oxford, 1983) and All Right Vegemite (June Factor, Hodder, 1985) have some good innovations on the well-known nursery rhymes as well as many other rhymes and chants. Each Peach Pear Plum (Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Picture Puffin, 1989) brings together some of the favourites in a hide and seek format.

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2. As a class, in small groups, pairs or as individuals, make your own versions of a rhyme of your choice. Some ideas include a zig-zag book, audiotape, videotape or mural.

3. Assign a short nursery rhyme to small groups of 4-5 children, appropriate to their age.

Each child can illustrate one or two lines of the rhyme depending on its length. The teacher writes the text under each child’s picture, missing out either the nouns or the verbs. The child completes this independently and it is checked by the group for sense.

Older children may be able to write the text for a partner with the group to complete.

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4. Discuss rhyming words. As a class, list some nouns that rhyme with body parts. Then use these rhyming words to replace ‘thumb ‘thumb’’ and ‘plum ‘plum’’ in Little Jack Horner. These may be shared with the class.

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1. As a class or in small groups, nominate a well-known rhyme. Sit in a circle. A story wand/stick may be used to indicate whose turn it is. The first child must begin with the first word/phrase of the rhyme before passing on the wand for the second child to continue with the second word/phrase and so on.

2. Glue the Story Reconstruction pictures (First Steps, Oral Language Module: LiteracyRelated Skills, Appendix 5 and Story Reconstruction notes pgs. 61-64) onto card. Model orally retelling the story using the cards as a guide. Write the corresponding text underneath each picture (or on the back) and make them available for reading, retelling and sequencing.

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3. Share Cloze Activity Innovations with the class or with another class. Read some of the innovations on other nursery rhymes in Far Out Brussel Sprout! pp 30-49.

4. Children dramatise some of the rhymes, or use puppets, masks or shadow puppets to recreate the story.

5. Talk about the origins of nursery rhymes. Why is there a group of songs and rhymes that we know, our parents know and our grandparents know? Look also at some of the language in the rhymes. For example, tuffet, curds and whey in Little Miss Muffet.

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Nursery Rhymes

Circle the word that fits in with the rhyme.

Be careful to look at the first sound!

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All the king’s horses and all the king’s (men hen ten),

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Jack (tell sell fell ) down and broke his crown, And Jill (fame same came) tumbling after.

On the back of this page draw a picture of Jack and Jill going up the hill.

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Growing Vegetables - Teaching Notes Before Cloze A ctivity: Activity: 1. As a whole class, or in small groups, plant some vegetable seeds in pots. Before planting the seeds, talk about the steps involved and write up a procedure together.

Follow these steps when planting.

2. Read Jack and the Beanstalk. Mask the words that are a plant part (e.g. seed, leaf, stem) and encourage children to predict a word to fit. Discuss choices.

Talk about the life cycle of a bean plant. How does it begin? What does it need to grow?

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3. Read “A Little Seed” by Mabel Watts (in Hanzl, A. and Pollock, Y., 1986, Funny Talk and More, Bookshelf Publishing.) Act out the poem as a class.

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4. Watch My First Nature Video, 1991, Dorling Kindersley/Pickwick Australia. Particularly view the segment on how to plant and grow a seed.

1. Children read completed cloze worksheet to a class friend.

Compare word choices. Did you choose the same words? Does the sentence still make sense? Is one word more fitting than another?

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•f or r e vi ew ur po se so nl y 2. Complete a worksheet together as a class, using suggestions from class members.

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4. Watch the vegetable seeds growing. As a class, write a diary entry every second day and display near the seeds. Reread diaries once or twice a week. Cover different types of words (nouns, verbs, adjectives) each time to encourage prediction skills.

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5. Do some vegetable printing. Try to find as many interesting textures as possible, e.g. broccoli, capsicum, zucchini, silver beet leaf. Make a picture or pattern, or even decorate a t-shirt, library bag or cushion.

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6. Invite a green grocer in to talk about fruit and vegetables in the shop. Where are they grown? How do they get to the shop? What types are sold?

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Planting Seeds

1. Use a word from the word list to fill the space in each step.

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Colours - Teaching Notes Before Cloze A ctivity: Activity: 1. Label colours clearly during a mat time with the children and refer to them regularly.

Turn the colour names into a guessing game: “I know a colour that starts with bl…”.

Younger children can work with the basic colour names, older children can use more difficult colours such as indigo, peach, olive.

2. Play colour “I spy” around the room and in the immediate environment surrounding the school.

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4. Make colour patterns using beads/straws threaded onto string. Children record patterns in words or pictures and share with a friend, group or class. Make more colours available, according to the age of the children.

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7. Discuss feelings and how colours can reflect different feelings. Which colours make children feel hot? Cold? Angry? Calm? Talk about some common sayings, for example, “being green with envy”.

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2. Read “The Paint Box” by Jean Kenward in the same collection. Discuss the names of colours. How many blue colour names can children come up with in pairs, small groups or as a class? Look at a paint catalogue and read some of their colour names.

Children have fun making up some of their own weird and wonderful colour names.

3. Read The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle (1985, Hamish Hamilton).

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Bears - Teaching Notes Before Cloze A ctivity: Activity: 1. Children brainstorm all that they know about bears, where they live, their eating habits, behaviour and appearance. Classify information under appropriate headings.

2. Research a type of bear as a whole class. Complete Cloze Activity 3 as a whole class to prepare students for their own research of a bear. Ensure that there are a number of books available on different types of bears. Also include the possibility of computer/ internet use. There is a CD-ROM available Bears and Pandas of the World, Webster Publishing, although this is a bit text heavy and more suited to Grade 3+. Pictures alone are great though.

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5. Make some Honey Muesli Munchies and have a teddy bears picnic out on the school lawn. Make sure children bring along a picnic rug.

After Cloze A ctivity: Activity:

1. Start a fact mural about bears in general, or one particular type of bear. Children keep adding to it the more that they learn about bears.

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5. As a class, children write about their breakfast/teddy bears’ picnic. Take photos and make into a class book. Use the class book as an oral cloze activity by masking words in it.

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6. Children make a teddy bear shaped book about their teddy.

7. There is a wealth of literature focusing on bears and teddy bears. Some popular bears include Winnie the Pooh, Corduroy, Little Bear, the Berenstain Bears, Paddington and Big Ted and Little Ted. 8. Have a class teddy that visits each child’s home for a holiday. While on holidays the child and the bear write a postcard back to school about their holiday together.

9. Make some gingerbread bears using the gingerbread men recipe in this book.

10. Children build a den for their bears to sleep in. It could be made out of wooden blocks, milk cartons, tissue boxes, a table with a cloth arranged over the top, or a large cardboard box.

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Bear, Teddy Bear, show your shoe.

Bear, Teddy Bear, I love you.

Bear, Teddy Bear, go upstairs.

Bear, Teddy Bear, say your prayers.

Bear, Teddy Bear, switch off the light.

Bear, Teddy Bear, say goodnight!

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Butterflies - Teaching Notes Before Cloze A ctivity: Activity: 1. Watch See how they grow: Minibeasts (video) Dorling Kindersley, 1992. There is a section on Butterflies.

OR Read See how they grow: Butterfly Ashton Scholastic, 1992 (photographs by Kim Taylor). These show very clearly the metamorphosis process and are particularly suited to junior primary.

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5. Read “Pupa” by Colin Bennett (in Early Years Poems and Rhymes compiled by Jill Bennet, Ashton Scholastic, 1993). Write a similar poem for a caterpillar or butterfly.

After Cloze A ctivity: Activity:

1. Make colourful butterflies. Children try to copy the shape and colouring of a particular variety that they have seen or studied as a class. Use the colour dropper method or the folding in half method mentioned under the Colours Teaching Notes. Alternatively, use colourful cellophane and/or tissue paper to make butterflies.

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Kids, 1996). A colourful Australian bush background for the metamorphosis of a very plain, uncolourful caterpillar.

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4. Working in pairs, children make crazy caterpillars or beautiful butterflies out of a variety of recyclable materials - ice-cream sticks, coloured and shiny paper, bottle tops, egg cartons, pipe cleaners, wool.

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5. As a class make large 3D models of the various stages of the butterfly life cycle.

6. Brainstorm words describing caterpillars and butterflies. Then write them around the edges of caterpillar and butterfly cut-outs. Display.

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Before: 1. Read Floating and Sinking Bookshelf, Level Two, or F. and J. Biddulph What Will Float? Sunshine Science, Applecross, 1992.

2. Gather objects mentioned on Cloze Activity 1, as well as any others suggested by children from within the classroom.

3. Fill an aquarium with water and place each object into it one by one.

4. Observe. Watch for 5 minutes, particularly noticing whether some objects gradually sink.

5. Children record their observations on the worksheet.

6. Change the shape of the Plasticine ball to make it float.

7. Place marbles into the boat one by one. Record how many marbles it can hold before sinking.

After: 1. Read Who Sank the Boat? Pamela Allen. Problem solving focussing on floating and sinking.

2. Read Alexander’s Outing Pamela Allen. This book cleverly uses floating to solve a problem.

3. Read Mr Archimedes Bath Pamela Allen. This book is about water displacement and is a good bridge between floating and sinking, and water displacement activities.

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Chocolate can be a or a .

After: 1. Read Melting Bookshelf, Level Two. 2. Do some cooking that involves freezing and melting, eg. ice-cream log, chocolate crackles.

3. Do some cooking that involves dissolving, e.g. gelatine in water, cornflour in water.

4. Freeze a variety of other liquids in ice cube trays. Did they all freeze? Which took the longest to freeze? The longest to melt?

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2. Break up into small groups of pairs to complete experiments and worksheet.

After: 1. Blackboard results as a whole class.

2. Children come back to their results on another day. Use them as an oral cloze by masking the nouns.

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Houses and Homes - Teaching Notes Before Cloze A ctivity: Activity: 1. Look at different types of homes people live in. For example, flats, single storey/double storey houses, caravan, tent, tepee, houseboat, mud house, igloo. Could we live in an igloo instead of a brick house? Why/why not?

2. Discuss: Why do we have houses? Are they something we really need or can we do without them?

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5. Sing “There’s a house with a wall” (Playschool) or read a version of The House that Jack Built or The Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe.

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6. Build a newspaper house/tower in pairs or small groups. How can the newspaper be strengthened? What happens when the newspaper is rolled up? How can the pieces be joined?

7. Use parent helpers to construct the booklets of the “Three Little Pigs” story. Photocopy sheets front and back on one A4 piece of paper; cut horizontally along the dotted line and fold vertically along the solid line. Join pages together in numerical order and staple to make the completed booklet.

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Grandparents - Teaching Notes Before Cloze A ctivity: Activity: 1. Read Sophie by Mem Fox, 1989, Drakeford Publishing. How do we feel about our grandparents? In what ways are they special? List. Particularly focus on the positives and ensure talk is respectful of grandparents. Then complete the worksheet, “My Grandma”, an innovation on Sophie.

2. What activities do children share with their grandparents? Emphasise that these are memories of grandparents. Children will always remember the good things they did with their grandparents.

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1. Invite some grandparents to talk to the class about some of their childhood memories, activities, and favourite books and toys. Make it interesting by showing photos, telling stories and showing games and other memorabilia. Encourage the class to ask questions.

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3. Read Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox. Talk about “losing your memory”. What does that really mean? Can it be fixed? Do children know of anyone who has lost his or her memory? How can they tell that they have lost their memory?

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5. Plan a visit to an old age home or retirement village in your area. Write a letter as a class, informing them of your class’s wish to visit. Sing some songs, show them some of the work which you have been doing at school and make a small gift to give to one of the residents. Before going, emphasise that many older people are very lonely and appreciate seeing new faces and things. Some may be sick, but remember that they are people like us and should be treated with kindness and respect.

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Number - Teaching Notes Before Cloze A ctivity: Activity: 1. Read and sing number rhymes and number stories. There is a wealth of literature on this subject, suitable for all ages.

2. Make a number line based on a counting nursery rhyme or counting book. For example, a fish number line for the rhyme “1,2,3,4,5; Once I caught a fish alive”.

3. Play number “Who am I?” For example, “I’m thinking of a number between 10 and 15. It is even, and is 7x2”. This is adaptable to any age group. For the six year olds it could be an oral or modeled reading and writing activity, whilst for the 8 year olds they could write their own individual “Who am I?”

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6. Make numbers out of playdough, clay or cardboard. Decorate them and hang around the room.

7. Talk about colloquial number terms. For example, a couple, a few, a handful, a dozen.

8. Read the children the poem “Ten for the Day” by Tony Mitton for the worksheet on page 40.

One, one, the rising sun.

Two, two, the sky so blue.

Three, three, birds in the tree.

Four, four, milk at the door.

Five, five, the whole world alive.

Six, six, the old clock ticks.

Seven, seven, sun’s in the heaven.

Eight, eight, tea’s on the plate.

Nine, nine, moon starts to shine.

Ten, ten, back to bed again.

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1. Do lots of cooking in which children have to measure in cups, spoons, grams and millilitres.

2. Look at the gingerbread men. Compare the numbers. How many nuts did children use to make the nose? Who had the most buttons? Who had the least buttons? Eat them for morning tea or wrap them up as a gift for someone.

3. Compare answers for the sentences on Worksheets on pages 39 and 40. Children discuss differences in answers and explain why they chose that number. Is there only one answer for each of these questions?

4. In small groups or pairs, share number poems. Choose one to read to the rest of the class.

5. Look at number patterns. Make them using numbers, real things, and blocks. Illustrate or collage a number pattern in pairs or as individuals. Write the numbers underneath and display.

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1. Number the steps of the recipe:

Ingredients: 125 g butter 1 cup plain flour 1 tblspn golden syrup 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

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Patterns - Teaching Notes Before Cloze A ctivity: Activity: 1. Read Spotted Yellow Frogs by Matthew van Fleet, Penguin, 1998. This is an excellent introduction to patterns and includes a problem-solving activity at the end.

2. Sing the “Spot Song” from Playschool (Humpty Dumpty, ABC, 1995).

3. Look at calendars. What do they show us? Why do we use them? What patterns can children notice in the calendar? Talk about days of the week, months of the year as a way of helping us keep track of time and seasons. Why is this important? Which months of the year make up each season in the country we live in? What do we do at different times of the year? How many days are in each month?

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4. Look at a variety of animals. What type of patterns do they have? List and classify.

Display on a wall of your classroom.

After Cloze A ctivity: Activity:

1. Hunt for some other word patterns, alliterations etc. Take turns in trying to read Betty Botter’s Butter. Offer a prize to all who can read it without tripping up.

2. Do some pattern printing. For example, butterfly prints to show symmetry, a potato masher for checks, bubble wrap for spots, a whole unscaled fish for a scaly print, or do some crayon rubbings.

© ReadyEdPubl i cat i ons 3. Read some books which concentrate on the seasons. What are the patterns in nature that children can notice through thep seasons?

For example, the lifecycle of • plants and • f o r r e v i e w u r p o s e s o n l y animals, weather patterns.

5. Sing pattern songs together as a class.

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6. Have a Patterns’ Day. All class members need to dress up in a particular pattern.

Classify the class into their pattern groups. Take photos of each group. Do a range of pattern activities throughout the day, in a range of curriculum areas. As a maths activity you could make a graph of the number of children wearing each type of pattern.

Which was the most popular? Least popular? Why? Were there some patterns that nobody chose to wear? Why? Take photos of each activity.

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7. Make a class book of the Patterns‘ Day using your photos as illustrations. Write an account of the day together as a class.

This book could be used as an oral cloze activity by masking words and asking children to predict the missing word and justifying their word choices.

8. Children look around the school buildings. What patterns can they notice? Brick patterns? Arches? Square windowpanes? Triangular roofs? Paving patterns?

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Food - Teaching Notes Before Cloze A ctivity: Activity: 1. Discuss - Why do we need to eat? What types of food are healthy and what types of food are not so healthy? List. What makes food healthy or unhealthy? Look at the food pyramid and talk about why some foods are on the large bottom layer and others are on the small top layer.

2. Do some taste testing of the five major food groups. Can children recognize milk, apples, bread, nuts, orange blindfolded? How? Talk about texture, taste, smell and crunchiness of food.

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3. Read The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch (Ronda and David Armitage, Picture Puffin) and/or The Giant Jam Sandwich (John Vernon Lord, Pan Books). Retell the story in your own words orally. Teacher scribe and use as an oral cloze activity for the next day.

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4. Do a survey of school sandwiches. What are the most popular fillings? The least popular? Write about these.

5. Read the story “The Little Red House” (in The Playschool Cookbook compiled by John Fox, ABC, 1989).

6. Have a fruit and vegetable day at school. Bring along a variety to share for morning tea/lunch. Do some printing with them. Have a fruit and vegetable worker in to talk about fruit and vegetables.

7. Make some spaghetti and pasta pictures/picture frames/hats or anything else you can think of.

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8. Learn some songs about food. There are many food songs on the Playschool CD’s and also on Peter Coombe CD’s.

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3. Have an International Food Day or Week during which foods from other countries can be studied and tasted.

4. How many Nursery Rhymes can children find that mention food? Can children substitute the unhealthy foods for healthy ones?

5. Test foods for fat by pressing them onto brown paper and allowing the paper to dry. If a translucent spot is left on the paper, the food contains fat.

6. Do some still life paintings of fruit and vegetables. Make some food sculptures using clay or Plasticine.

7. Read Food J. Feely and J. Scott, Science Starters, Collins Dove, 1992, or The Magic Schoolbus: Inside the Human Body Scholastic, 1989.

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Road Safety - Teaching Notes Before Cloze A ctivity: Activity: 1. Children brainstorm as many road safety rules as they can think of. Classify them.

Which apply to being in the car? On a bike? Walking? Playing near the road? Display them in a prominent place in the class.

2. Listen to the Playschool song “Stop, Look and Listen” (Oomba Baroomba, ABC, 1994) and the CD Travelling Songs for in the Car (ABC, 1998).

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5. Call the Road Safety Authority in your area and find out if they have any Road Safety Education resources available.

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4. Write about road safety experiences. Was it easy to follow the signs? Did children know what they meant? Did they have trouble crossing the road or stopping in time for the signs? Use class writing as a cloze opportunity.

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