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?

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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