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Emily MacKenzie: Draw-along
In this broadcast you will see the amazing Emily Mackenzie reading There's Broccoli in My Ice Cream and showing us how to draw Granville the dalmatian. Pupils will also enjoy her guess-the-vegetable draw along. Be sure to have paper and pencils at the ready!
There are lots of brilliant suggestions for activities you can do before or after watching the broadcast in our 10 things to do with any book(this link will open in a new window) and quick drama activities for performing picture books(this link will open in a new window) learning resouces.
For shorter clips from this event visit the BBC Scotland Learning(this link will open in a new window) website.
A full transcript of this event is available to download.
If you only do one thing
We know time is tight, so here is just one activity you can complete with your class before or after watching this broadcast.
Explore healthy eating HWB 0-30a, HWB 1-30a, HWB 1-30b, HWB 1-35a
In There’s Broccoli in my Ice Cream, Granville isn’t so keen on trying fruit and vegetables. Use this Authors Live broadcast as an opportunity to explore healthy eating and encourage your pupils to try something new. Put out a selection of different fruit and vegetables and ask each of them to try something they had previously thought they didn’t like. By the end of the story, Granville finds he actually rather likes vegetables and puts them in all his favourite ice cream flavours.
Before you throw away the wrappers for all the fruit and vegetables, collect them and look at the labels with your pupils. Discuss where the fruit and vegetables came from- do they recognise any of the countries? Can they point at them on the map? Do they think this is a sustainable way to eat and shop? Granville grows lots of different fruit and vegetables in his garden with his grandpa, so his fruit is local and is seasonal. What about the fruit from a supermarket- is it seasonal? Is it a good thing that fruit and vegetables are available all year round?
