IMPROVING WRITING SKILLS USING 'ORANGES'

                                                                           Laura Gómez Bono (English teacher)

                                               TOPIC: ORANGES
                                            

• Literacy

Children wrote poems on to photocopied sheets showing a cross-section of an orange. Each line of the poem was written in the segments.  

Little ones.  Instead of writing a poem, they wrote words. For example: tastes, verbs (What can we do with oranges? Eat, drink, juggle...). Or  simple sentences or facts ( 'I like oranges', 'I don't like...', 'I like orange juice','Oranges have got vitamin C.'...).

• Maths

Circles and segments.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/circle.html

http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/circle-sector-segment.html

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/shapes.shtml

• Art

Each child cut out two circle cards and they coloured the outside to look like oranges. Then he/she stuck his/her poem. With the oranges we made an orange tree display.

• Science

. We were talking about fruit and healthy food.

                                  

                                    

. 'Where do oranges come from?'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia_orange
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(fruit)#Valencia

. The five senses. The sense of taste.

http://www.twigglemagazine.com/March-activities/describe-that-taste-game.html

http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/5senses.html

http://science.pppst.com/fivesenses.html

• Music

*The idea of the orange tree is from "Hands on Display" by Rhona Whiteford and Jim Fitzsimmons.

http://www.wheelers.co.nz/books/9780947882396-hands-on-display/

Cooking:

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-chocolate-and-orange-cake

http://www.videojug.com/tag/orange

http://thermofan.blogspot.com/2011/05/easy-british-breakfast-orange-scones.html

http://thermofan.blogspot.com/2011/04/delicias-de-mandarina-tmx.html