Aideen,
thanks for sharing your classroom experiences and how you have linked different activities into a coherent thread.
It occurs to me that a variant of hot and cold / how do you feel, what are you wearing… could be achieved by collecting the grocery magazines and identifying food that you eat when it is hot vs food that you eat when it is cold, or items that you would use in the summer (bbq, sun parasol, camping gear, swimming pool) vs winter (ski clothes, e….)
These are online, so you could even save the images and share this on the whiteboard
https://leaflets.aldi.ie/view/105160728/
Summer treats: https://leaflets.aldi.ie/view/765436005/
Dunnes website even has a section right now for Summer! https://www.dunnesstoresgrocery.com/sm/delivery/rsid/258/categories/summer/summer-picnic-id-54681