Fruits & Vegetables

Sight Words: fruit, vegetable, apple, banana, broccoli, corn
Word Lesson: Bb for banana, broccoli, bean, brussel sprouts


Books:
Any Johnny Appleseed book
Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
Vegetables ISBN 9781404242654
From Seed to Plant ISBN 0516216821
Potatoes ISBN 1560654511
Taking Root ISBN 0516215914
Vegetables ISBN 1432901427
Fruits ISBN 1432901435
The Fruit Group ISBN 0736853707


Individual food groups are 641.36 at the library


Activities:
Fruit/Vegie Diary
Identify food groups review
Potato Stamps (cut potato in half, cut out shape of choice. stamp paper.)
Where Food Grows


Song:
# Sing the Happy Food Song and insert the name of one of the Food Models at the appropriate spot. Have the child with the Food Model hold it up for all to see. Have the rest of the group sing and perform the activity. For example:
If there's fruit and you know it, stomp your feet,
If there's fruit and you know it, stomp you feet,
If you're fruit and you know it, hold your food card up and show us,
If there's fruit and you know it, stomp you feet.
# Substitute "jump up and down," "touch your toes," "nod your head," and other activities that use large motor skills for "stomp your feet." Feel free to improvise with other actions and gestures.


Snack: applesauce and carrot sticks

In addition to all the wonderful books we read and great activities we also made applesauce this week and tried a new recipe with eggplant. Both fun and yummy fruit and vegetable learning activities.


We spent both days this week on these various activities, books, and lessons. I had planned to take my son with a small group of friends to a local grocery store for a tour, but was unable to find a place here that does one. If you live in Texas you're fortunate because HEB has a wonderful tour they do that we participated in last year. It was a blast. Call around to your local stores and see if any place does one.

Grain: Seeds, Wheat, Flour, Bread

Sight Words: grain, wheat, seed, flour, energy
Word Lesson: (totally unrelated) 'at' words...fat, sat, bat, cat, mat, etc

Books:
Food Groups Grains ISBN 1432901419
Pasta ISBN 0936840690

Individual food groups are 641.36 at the library

Activities:
Grain coloring page
Making pasta necklaces
Oatmeal play dough (1 part flour, 1 part water, 2 parts oatmeal)
Sequences (seed, wheat, flour, bread)

Snack: Corn Muffins

We used ideas from this site and really liked the this page. We just discussed grains and where they come from. Grandparents have a huge wheat farm which we just visited, so we were able to recall the wheat fields and discarded wheat stalks left in fields.

We read our book about grain and making pasta. We lined up our 'wheat' items to talk about sequences and what comes next. Did our coloring sheet and mixed up/put our muffins in the oven.


Made pasta necklaces, made/played with oatmeal play dough. Ate our yummy muffins. Fun preschool. Took two hours.