My breakfast, your breakfast

1. My breakfast, your breakfast

2.

Breakfast
See what children from all over the world
say about breakfast.
What is the same about how you and these
children have breakfast?
What is different?

3.

Luis from Mexico
Before school I have
breakfast. I’ll probably
have rice pudding or
cornflakes and chocolatey
milk.
Photo: Oxfam
At morning break I might
have a snack of cake and
juice. At the end of break I
usually clean my teeth
under a tap in the
playground.

4.

Caroline from Uganda
Most of my friends don't eat in the morning, and if
they do, it only makes them feel more hungry
during the day. I'm happiest when I'm at school.
16249/Geoff Sayer/Oxfam
We don't have any food at
school. I get hungry,
especially at lunchtime. I
don't have breakfast
before I go, or any tea.

5. My school starts early in the morning so I don’t have much time for breakfast. Dadu (my granddad) and I sit and have some milk

Yamini from India
My school starts early in
the morning so I don’t
have much time for
breakfast.
Photo: Oxfam
Dadu (my granddad)
and I sit and have some
milk and biscuits or
chocolate cereal.

6.

Mouna from Mali
30011/Ami Vitale/Oxfam
When I wake up in the morning, I wash, pound millet
for my breakfast and then go to school. I study and
then come back home.

7.

Who eats breakfast?
Yamini
Which children eat
breakfast?
Caroline
Who do you think eats
a healthy breakfast? Luis
Whose breakfast is
easy to get or make?
Who doesn’t eat
breakfast?
Mouna

8.

Why doesn’t everyone eat
breakfast?
Many children all over the world do not
eat breakfast.
There are many reasons for this.
What do you think they are?
Discuss with a partner and write down
your ideas.

9.

Reasons why children do
not eat breakfast
Newsround reported the main reasons
children in the UK do not eat breakfast:
•I oversleep
•I don't like it
•I never have the time
•I want to lose weight
•I just don't want it
news.co.uk/cbbcnews
What other reasons have you thought of?

10. What do you know about breakfast?

TASK: in small groups, make a mind
map about breakfast, which highlights:
•The variety of breakfasts eaten around
the world
•How people get their breakfasts
•Why some people do not eat breakfast

11. Why doesn’t everyone eat breakfast?

Discuss the question:
Why don’t some children eat
breakfast?

12. KS2 Extension: Food prices increase

The prices of some food around the world almost
doubled between 2006 and 2008!
The World Bank
What impact do you think this had on children eating
breakfast?