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Okay, y’all! March rolls in this week, and this means National Nutrition Month rolls in with it. So it seems like now is a perfect time to whip up a serving (or two or three) of activities related to the food groups and nutrition. Do you have a favorite nutrition-related craft, song, or center idea? Or maybe you have a healthy snack idea, a writing prompt, or a homework activity to tell your colleagues about. Please share!
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There are so many things to do with nutrition…I have the kids do a larger than life painting of their favorite fruit or veggie that we hang up. They also keep
track of how many of these they eat during one week and we do graphing of this.We read “I Will Never,No,Not Ever Eat a Tomato”…and write our own version of what they won’t ever eat.I also have “green foods” activities
that we do on or around St.Patrick’s Day. One fun one is
to bring in lots of bite sized green foods and do a
blindfold test to guess what they are.
I use pictures of food to graph likes and dislikes. We do a food sort sometimes always with them too. I use frozen bread dough thaw it and let the kids make dough critters for pet week.We cook once a month. I love cooking with the kids. Some summers i even do a cooking camp.
Our theme this week is eating healthy. I presented the new plate design. It is so much easier to explain than the pyramid.
We copied the new design onto a paper plate, added the dairy on the side — and the students chose a healthy food for each category. They were so proud of their plates. 🙂
Center activities:
In the ABC center, I put 6 healthy choices from my pretend/plastic food collection. I write the food names on a paper plate. The students have to match the food to the word. (This year I have peas, an apple, an egg, grapes, and corn.)
In the pretend & learn center, I have a local grocery store set up.
In construction, I have a farm. I reinforce the idea that our foods don’t just appear on the store shelves; they come from a farm.
In the writing center, I have paper decorated with healthy foods.
I have all sorts of books in my library center — a combination of fiction and non-fiction. One of my students’ favorite books over the years has been “Stop That Pickle!” It reminds them of “The Gingerbread Man.”
“Wild Boars Cook” is also a book that gets lots of laughs. This year, the students will do a writing assignment in which they have to substitute the boars’ odd food choices with healthy ones in a recipe. 😉
My theme for next week is Staying Safe. Does anyone have center ideas for that one? Please share if you do. Thanks in advance! 🙂