I Can Eat Healthy Foods

Share: Bring Something to Taste with your friends
Books: Gregory The Terrible Eater By Mitchell Sharmatt, The Very Hungry Caterpillar By Eric Carle
Mixed Media: Reading Rainbow Gregory the Terrible Eater
Remember Reading Rainbow? I found this reading of Gregory the Terrible Eater and the children loved it!
http://vimeo.com/groups/wvpt/videos/6238843 (story begins at 2 min)

Dramatic Play: What’s Cookin’? Provide play food, chef hats, and dishes. Encourage the children to play restaurant together in the kitchen

Art:
Friendly Frogs: Cut Vegetable Paint Stamping
Busy Bees: What Color is your favorite food?

Fine Motor: Mr. Potato Head and Veggie Friend manipulatives

Fine Motor: Lacing Noodle Necklaces

Sensory: Feely Food Game
Place one or two different fruits or vegetables into a small brown lunch bag. Give each child a bag. Have children take turns reaching into their bag without looking inside and describe how the fruit or vegetable feels (soft, hard, rough, smooth, round, etc.). Encourage them first to guess what it is, and then take it from the bag to reveal what it is.
Science: Under the Magnifying Glass-how do the foods we eat everyday look up close?

Math: Cookie Bakery Pattern Match up

Language: Sign Language “Eat”
Practical Life: My body needs healthy foods to grow.
Music & Movement: There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly, I Like to Eat Eat Eat Apples and Bananas, Let's All Do the Tummy Tango
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