I Can Eat Healthy Foods

A catch up post. Scroll down to see what we did at school, today.
29th I Can Eat Healthy Foods

Share: Bring Something to Taste with your friends (we had quite the smorgasboard or cheese, trail mix, popcorn, bananas, star fruit, mango, and jello fruit cups)

Color: Red
Books: Gregory The Terrible Eater By Mitchell Sharmatt, The Very Hungry Caterpillar By Eric Carle, There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly by Pam Adams

The kids really loved reading this classic book out loud as a group shared reading. I have a great big board book and we pushed the plush caterpillar through the holes of all the foods he ate.
"but he was still hungry..." I had this book as a child and it is a forever favorite. Gregory, a goat lives in a junkyard and eats so much junk (tires, radiators, scrap metal, glass, aluminum cans) he gets sick. He learns to make healthier food choices.

Shape: Oval
Fine Motor: Potato people. The children had fun putting body parts and silly faces on Mr. Potato head and his veggie pals.


Dramatic Play: What’s Cookin’? Provide play food, chef hats, and dishes. Encourage the children to play restaurant together in the kitchen
Fine Motor: Don't eat like Gregory the Goat! What's your favorite healthy food? Draw a picture of it. Sensory: Oodles of macaroni noodles Snack: Share-bring your favorite snack to share? Which foods are sweet? Which taste salty? What part of your mouth helps you taste foods? What else does your tongue help you do?

Art: Cut Vegetable paint/stamp art

Science: Under the Magnifying Glass-how do the foods we eat everyday look up close? We examined a piece of bread, a carrot, a potato, a tomato, a banana, raisins, and some crackers.

Language: Sign Language “Eat”

Practical Life: Table Manners/My body needs healthy foods to grow.

Music & Movement: There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly: This is a great book that comes with musical sing along CD. The illustrations are die cut pages and her stomach "grows" as she eats bigger animals.

I also have this set of fabric animals to go with the book, and the children took turns sticking them onto a velcro old lady on the flannel board as each animal was mentioned in the song.