Term 6 week 4 – This week your foundation subject learning will follow the

theme of:

‘Riveting Roald Dahl’

This week we will be doing fun and exciting learning tasks that are inspired by

the brilliant characters and stories created by Roald Dahl. Roald Dahl was an

author who wrote some of the best books for children ever written. You might

have read or heard of ‘The Enormous Crocodile’, ‘The Giraffe, the Pelly and me’,

‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’, ‘The BFG’ or ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’,

which are just a few of his fantastic books. His stories are magical and so

amazing that many of them have been turned into films or animations. Enjoy

delving into the wonderful world of Roald Dahl and get ready to use your

imagination.

Monday 22nd June

MY BIG FRIENDLY GIANT

In many stories a giant is something to be scared. Some of the giants in

Roald Dahl’s book ‘The BFG’ are a little scary, but the main character is a

friendly man, who just happens to be a giant.

Here is a picture and description of the BFG from Roald Dahl’s book.

He had truly enormous ears. Each

one was as big as the wheel of a

truck and he seemed to be able to

move them inwards and outwards

from his head as he wished.

Today, your task is to create your own Big Friendly Giant. You must draw a picture and

describe the giant in the space below. Your giant could be a boy or a girl, old or young, have

loads of hair or have no hair – it is totally up to you! There is just one thing you must

remember when creating your giant – they MUST be FRIENDLY.

Picture of my BFG

Description of my BFG

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Tuesday 23rd June

MAGICAL MARVELLOUS MEDICINE

One of Roald Dahl’s books is about a boy called George, who was fed up with his

grumpy, unkind Grandma and so he decided to swap her normal medicine for

something he invented himself. He used strange and interesting things in his

medicine and he hoped each ingredient would have a different effect on his

Grandma. And it did…

Here is George using bottles

of perfume, toothpaste, hair

remover, animal medicine,

brown paint and lots of

other crazy things to make

his medicine for Grandma.

Then he gives Grandma

his marvellous medicine.

This is what happens to Grandma after she has swallowed George’s marvellous medicine.

For your first task today, you are going to decide on a nasty character (like Grandma) who you

are going to give your medicine to. You need to draw them and list words that describe them

and the disgusting and terrible things that they do in the table below.

Picture of your nasty character Words that describe

them

Now you need to decide on 5 strange ingredients for your marvellous medicine. You need to

write what each medicine ingredient is and draw what it looks like – this could be a pill, a

bottle of something or a box of something. Next to each ingredient you are going to describe

what magical things you want the ingredient to do to your nasty character – make this as

funny, crazy, ridiculous and hideous as you like!

Ingredient name and picture Description of what the ingredient will

do to your nasty character

Finally, draw a picture of what your nasty character looks like after they have taken your

magical medicine. You could draw more than one picture to show the different effects of the

medicine, like the ones shown of Grandma. Or you could just draw one big picture of the end

result on your nasty, disgusting, terrible character.

Additional activities for children at home - Once you have finished, you could ask a grown up if

they would help you make your Marvellous Medicine. Remember DO NOT taste it – making

it is just for fun!!!

Wednesday 24th June

P.E. – SPORTS DAY!!!

Activities and instructions for this will be in a separate document on your class

webpage. ENJOY!!!

Thursday 25th June

ENORMOUS CROCODILE TRAP

Today you are going to design a trap for a

crocodile, but not just any crocodile…

Your trap will be for Roald Dahl’s

ENORMOUS CROCODILE.

Before you start designing, read through some of these extracts from Roald Dahl’s book to

learn more about this beastly character.

Humpy-Rumpy the hippo

Trunky the elephant

Muggle-Wump the monkey

The Roly-Poly bird

Some of what the characters have said in the extracts on the previous page might give you

some ideas of what you could have in your crocodile trap, but you might have lots of others.

Record your ideas for your crocodile trap, by answering the questions on this ideas web.

Crocodile trap

ideas web

What materials and tools could you

use to make your crocodile trap?

How might your trap work?

How big will your trap be? What shape could your trap be?

Where would you put

your crocodile trap?

Is your trap going to

be hidden or

disguised?

Now you have thought about your ideas carefully for your crocodile trap, you need to draw a

picture of your incredible Enormous Crocodile trap.

Additional activities for children at home - Once you have finished your design you could make a

model of your trap out of cardboard and reusable materials from your recycling! If you make

any traps, send pictures of them into your teachers – we would love to see them!

Enormous Crocodile Trap Design Drawing

Friday 26th June

PICTURE PERFECT

Below is one of the front covers for a book called ‘James and the Giant Peach’ by Roald Dahl.

The book is about a boy who meets a mysterious man in his garden who gives him a bag of

magical glowing crystals. James accidentally trips up, spilling the magical objects on the

ground under a peach tree. The crystals cause a peach on the tree to grow and GROW and

GROWWW!!! It becomes giant, as do some of the mini-beasts living inside the peach. The

peach becomes so big that James can climb inside and together with his new massive bug

friends he goes on an adventure when the peach rolls off of a cliff and floats away on the

ocean.

The front cover of this book and most of the pictures in Roald Dahl’s books are drawn by a

fabulous artist called Quentin Blake. Here are close up pictures of James and his big bug

friends drawn by Quentin Blake.

Centipede

James and

Ladybird

Old Green Grasshopper

Miss Spider

Earthworm

Glow-worm

Silkworm

If you look at the pictures of the characters, Quentin Blake always outlines features using

black and uses colour to bring them to life. Your task today is to draw/paint a picture in this

style. You can either try to recreate the front cover of the book (on the previous page), choose

one of the characters and draw a much bigger version of them, or create your own bug

character who could join James and his friends on their adventure. You have been set a 2Do

on Purple Mash to try and create your piece of art using 2Paint, or there is a space below for

you to do your drawing/picture.

Optional – instead of drawing:

Describe one of the characters or imagine what is happening in the front cover picture and

describe that.