Food and Nutrition

Books:















Songs:
Peanut Butter
I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas
Today is Sunday... Dr Jean
Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater


Activities:

Talk about food groups, cut out pictures of food and glue it to a plate and discuss what they chose

Graph our favorite fruits

Veggie Rap...

Broccoli, Tomatoes,
Zucchini, Peas.
Pass the Carrots,
More Veggies Please!
Squash and Potatoes,
Green Beans that Snap!
Now you're doing the Vegetable Rap!

• Bring in the real vegetables and use them to retell the RAP! I have enlarged pictures of these too so I can use when the vegetables are no longer useable. We act it out several times.... 
• Sort with the vegetables using large Venn diagram plastic circles.
• Some ideas for sorting/patterning with them are:
  Things I have tasted/things I haven't
  Veggies I like/Veggies I don't like
  Colors
  Large/Small
  Roots/Stems/Flowers/Leaves
  Seeds/No seeds

Patterning with fruit - each student will make a fruit kabob by patterning

Read Gregory the Terrible Eater and do a Venn diagram of what we eat and what Gregory was eating.  Use the food pyramid to think of some good meals to sugest for gregory

Food Colors

Need: newspaper grocery ads and magazines, poster board

Choose the colors and label each sheet of poster board with a color

(orange foods, red foods, green foods, yellow foods, purple foods, blue foods).