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Who’s been celebrating National Nutrition Month this March? I’ll admit that nutrition wasn’t one of my favorite teaching topics. Trying to help a child decide which food groups are included in Mom’s macaroni casserole or Dad’s cornbread was an adventure. “But, Ms. Badden, cornbread has corn, bread, egg, milk, and butter. So why isn’t a pan of cornbread good for you?” 🙂 Gotta love it!
Do you have a healthy snack to share? Or perhaps you have a favorite nutrition-related writing prompt or center activity? There are still several days left in the month to celebrate. Besides, any time is a great time to teach youngsters the importance of good nutrition, wouldn’t you agree? Happily, |
I work all year on nutrition and proper choices with the kids. I use lots of different activities and cooking of course. I think my favorite story relating to nutrition is still Gregory the terrible Eater. I love the humor and so do the kids.
Our pre-k nutrition unit falls in November. It’s one of my favorites.
My students create their own “recipes” by selecting pictures of 4-6 ingredients that they would like to cook. They paste the pictures onto a photocopy of a cooking pot — but then they have to write the names of the ingredients below that they chose. We call it Iron Chef Pre-K. 😉
Some of the combinations are hilarious: shrimp combined with eggs, yogurt, pumpkin, & broccoli for example.
The purpose of the activity is to expand the students’ vocabulary & practice writing. It’s so much fun!
One of my favorite nutrition books is “I Will Never,Not
Ever Eat a Tomato”.We make our own version of this book,using the kids’ response to the question,”Which
food will YOU never,ever eat?” They draw huge pictures of their least favorite food and write about it. I
assemble the pages and make a class book for the story
corner.Love it!
Well, actually I do enjoy eating snacks sometimes! I read the book, Gregory the Terrible Eater, to my kiddos. We brainstormed some healthy snacks and made a list. Students were encouraged to bring in an item to make a healthy snack mix. It went great! I don’t dictate what my kids can bring for snack, but I sure will make a big deal when I see kids bringing healthy items to eat!
Linda – thanks for sharing that awesome idea. I love it!!!
Another one of my favorite nutrition-theme activities is to read ‘The Little Red Hen’, then ask the students, “If you were the little red hen, what would you make?” I like to laminate the students’ drawings and make a book out of it.