Food Pyramid and Meat

Before I post about our meat I would like to clarify the structure of our preschool. We generally have two lessons per week on whatever two days work best for us. Each lesson lasts between 1 and 2 hours. Almost always these lessons take place during my younger child's nap so only my older son is involved. We usually time preschool right so we are ending with snack time as my younger child wakes up so he is involved in the eating.

Sight Words: food, deer, meat, muscle, bean
Word Lesson: words that have the same beginning sound

Books:
My Food Pyramid ISBN 9780756629939
Meat and Protein ISBN 143290146X
The Meat and Beans Group ISBN 0736853723
From Farm to You Sausage ISBN 0791070069

Just run by your local library...food pyramid books are under 613.2 in non fiction and individual food groups are 641.36, we just grabbed books for all the food groups to use over the next few weeks.

Activities:
Identity each food group worksheet (found here, page 3)
Color our own pyramid
Practice counting with beans.
Color a deer sheet, glue beans on paper in shape of Dd
Track eating on Wednesday (using this)

Snack: Tuna Dip with Bread

3 oz tuna, drained
4 oz cream cheese
1/4 cup butter

Combine, microwave, stir.

We talked about the Food Pyramid using a lot of materials from this site. It was super helpful and has lots of fun ideas. We printed out our own pyramid to hang on the fridge and refer to. Read our food pyramid book.

Then we moved onto meat and talked about where it comes from and how we get it. What animals we eat, how we store meat, etc. Because we had just gone hunting over the weekend this lesson was well timed. We discussed the deer Grandpa got and how we prepared the meat and froze it for eating. We also talked about beans and nuts...where they come from, how we eat them, etc.

Gluing the beans on the deer picture was a desperate idea for how to incorporate a "meat" activity. But my son LOVED it. He was so excited about gluing and beans.

We didn't have any songs...any ideas for food songs as we discuss the other groups throughout the next two weeks?? Thanks!