Last week was Thanksgiving and we did many activities related to the holiday. We read the story I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie and used pictures from Texas Kindergarten Teacher to retell the sequence of the story in our bellies.
For partner reading, students read the emergent reader book Thanksgiving and then completed the sentence at the end of the book writing something about Thanksgiving that they liked.
We continued to learn about food groups and the importance of having a well balanced meal. We watched Sid the Science Kid’s video on food groups where the students sorted their lunch into different food groups.
After we watched the video we made our own lunch boxes and picked out a “balanced meal” that contain all five food groups. Students pick 3-4 items and put them into a cut out lunchbox.
On Friday we read The Very First Thanksgiving Day. We wrote about the different vegetables, fruits, and meats we would put in our cornucopia and trace and cut our own foods.
As we continue to learn about food groups and nutrition we focused on each food group in depth. Students drew and colored foods that belonged in each group (from https://www.choosemyplate.gov/) while learning the benefits of each food group using our “My Food Groups” book. Since the book is geared more towards first grade, we only did certain pages.
We also started transitioning into our Thanksgiving theme by reading the book; The Very First Thanksgiving Day. Then we made our own Thanksgiving Cornucopia tracing and cutting different, fruits, vegetables, and meat.
This week are learning about nutrition, healthy foods, and food groups. On Monday we read the emergent reader book called Let’s Eat. In this book the author talks about the food she likes to eat, most of them healthy. In the end the author says she likes to eat chocolate but not a lot. We made a list of healthy foods as a class and then made our own class book called Let’s Eat.
For science we learned about the five food groups and watched a nutrition video for kids about having a well rounded diet. Then students made lunchboxes and filled those lunch boxes with various foods from all five groups.
We finished up with our nutrition unit last week. We read an online reading of the book “Jack and the Hungry Giant” on YouTube. Afterwards, as an extension activity, students illustrated the foods that Jack and the giant picked for their meal.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0p5Oh6Gkfc]
Finally students got to create healthy plates with foods that they would like. They had to pick foods from every food group.
First we read the story “There Was And Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey”, talked about the different thanksgiving food she ate and what food group they belonged to. Then we created models of ourselves, with pictures of the things the old lady swallowed glued to our “stomachs”, in the correct sequence order.
This last week we began our study on Nutrition. First we read “Gregory the Terrible Eater” and “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and then we talked about foods that were healthy and not healthy foods, and sorted them according to those categories.
Then we use the food cards to create a class food pyramids and sorted them into their food groups. Then students drew their own foods and created their own food pyramids.
