Grandad the Greengrocer Recap

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1 Name: Class: Grandad the Greengrocer Recap 1. What colour were Grandad s and Emily s gloves? 2. Which vegetable did Grandad dig up first? 3. What made Emily think that the carrot looked nothing like she had seen in the shops? 4. What did Emily s sister Kate hope she was having for dinner? 5. Which two vegetables were used to make mash at dinner?

2 Name: Class: Where do our bananas come from? Our bananas travel hundreds of miles from being grown before we buy them. See if you can put the jumbled up boxes of the life of a banana in the right order. The customer buys the ripe bananas to eat and enjoy! Shops receive the packaged bananas to sell to customers. The bananas are transported from the Caribbean to the UK in ships. Once in the UK the bananas are then taken to a factory. Bananas are grown in the Caribbean; they take nearly 2 years to grow before they can be cut down.

3 Match the food picture with its name NAME: Can you help me to match the pictures of the different fruit and vegetables with their names? Draw a line from the picture to the correct name.

4 Rainbow of fruit and vegetables Can you match the different fruits and vegetables to the correct colour in the rainbow by drawing a line?

5 Did You Know.. Carrots used to be purple until the sixteenth century. The first orange carrot originated in Holland. Over the centuries a rainbow of different colours of carrot have appeared, including red, purple, black, yellow and white! Grandad has a few interesting facts to tell you about different fruit and vegetables The seeds on the outside of strawberries are not true seeds. Broccoli and cauliflower are flowers. Onions make you cry because there s something in them that irritates tear ducts. In fact, it s the same thing that s produced by volcanoes when they erupt. Tomatoes are a fruit not a vegetable as they have seeds in the middle.

6 Name: Class: What am I? Purnit Binegareu Krao Reppep Amtoto Kele Topato Cronteesw Nolme Crobcoli Can you match the jumbled up words to the correct fruit or vegetable?

7 Name: Class: Grandad the Greengrocer Word Search S W E D E R I T F H I P O C R F W S O N P R S A W K L C A R R O T S D R E F N V M O T V L G E S Swede Broccoli Spade Leaves Fork Gloves Carrots Parsnip P O T R O A P I D S E N F R O K G F L R N L R I Y K C B R O T E U S W P U R S E C L V G P E O D P S R C N I L E A V E S L G O R T C O R R O C P Can you find some words taken from the story in the word search? C R U T E A F K O L V E B M E S P A D E T G I B

8 Jokes Why did the tomato blush? Because he saw the salad dressing! Why are bananas never lonely? Because they come in bunches! Knock Knock Who s there? Lettuce Lettuce Who? Lettuce in and you ll find out! What vegetable do you need a plumber for? A leek! What vegetable might you find in the basement? Cellar-y! What is green and goes to summer camp? A Brussels Sprout! Why did the tomato go out with a prune? Because he couldn t find a date! Where did the vegetables go to have a few drinks? The salad bar!

9 Teacher Activities Here are a few activities you may like to do with the children alongside reading Grandad the Greengrocer. 1. Discuss the different places that you can buy fruit and vegetables such as the supermarket, greengrocers, market, local shop etc. 2. Discuss the different types of fruit and vegetables we can eat such as frozen, tinned, fresh, juiced and dried. Explain to the children that food goes through different processes before we eat it. 3. Discuss with the children why fruit and vegetables are good for us. 4. Give the children a picture of a fruit or vegetable and ask them to describe it to the other children in the class without naming their food and see if the other children can guess what they are describing. 5. Talk to the children about growing your own fruit and vegetables, have they ever grown their own, do they know what an allotment is? Try growing your own watercress or bean sprouts with the children to show how easy it is. 6. Try and name as many fruit and vegetables as you can from A Z. 7. Have a tasting session with different varieties of fruit and vegetables that the children may not have tasted before. 8. Look at different fruit and vegetables and where they come from. Get the children to locate those countries on a map.