Transcript Making Somali bread together Drawing on cultural knowledge

Cooking from different cultures
These resources can be used for
•Cross-curricular topic work involving
children’s different languages
•Language classes in the community
•MFL classes
See also resource sheet (link)
Developed by Goldsmiths/Tower
Hamlets teacher partnership project
Making Somali bread
together with parents
Drawing on cultural
knowledge
Eating ‘laxoox’ bread
Sharing a cultural
experience
Sharing food in Somali class
• Writing ingredients for ‘laxoox’
bread and accompanying dish
Benefits for learning
•Valuing Somali culture in the class
•Celebrating diversity
•Raising child’s self-esteem
•Encouraging parents to make
healthy traditional foods
•Children knowing different types of
bread
•Talk between parents and children
about food
Foods from
Bangladesh
Resource used to stimulate
ICT activity where children
create their own food posters,
using resources from internet
and writing about each food
item/dish
• Children write recipe
at home with parents
and cook the dish
together
• Bring recipes back to
class, share and
compare