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.
Last week we learned about the importance of eating healthy and proper nutrition. We started off by reading Gregory the Terrible Eater and talked about how Gregory and his family learned the importance of moderation when it comes to eating snacks and junk food. We made a list of healthy foods and junk food and sorted pictures of food into the two categories.
The next day we learned about the five food groups and how having a balanced meal with all five groups is essential to our growth and development. For our art project we created our own food group plate.
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.
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.
In science we’ve been studying nutrition and food groups. We read “Fruit”, “Bananas Sometimes”, and “We Set the Table” in our leveled reading groups. Then as art activity we decided to create a healthy plate of food full of the five food groups. Students colored pictures of food and pasted them to their correct food groups. Students only looked for healthy food to put on their plate.
