I'm not dead! Just thought I should start with that since I've been MIA for so long. Here are a few things we've been doing in our class focusing on our topic Food and Nutrition.
Found these pizza slice boxes in the back of a cabinet and decided to use them to make pizza. We added a little red paint to some glue to make the sauce, sprinkled on the cheese (shredded paper) and glued on pepperoni. Easy and fun!
Here is a great chart that my center purchased. It came with all the food cards sort. We put up pictures of the ones we ate for breakfast and lunch in this photo.
2 different graphs we made this week- favorite fruit and favorite vegetable. I liked doing the horizontal and vertical graph so that the children can see just a couple types of the many graphs there are. They get the opportunity to count, compare, and talk about more than and less than. Plus it is about them, so they had a good time. They were really anxious to see which fruit/veggie "won."
Cute ideas! Fun to see that broccoli is the favorite in both classes. It's my favorite, too! Renee
ReplyDeleteThat is a really good idea. I'd love you to link it up to Motivational Monday this week.
ReplyDeleteLove how you do colors to keep am/pm separate. I did the same when I taught 1/2 day. Have any tips on keeping the pm class from seeing the am work so it's new to them too whtout spending so much time in between for prep?
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Hey Leslie! Thanks for the comment. Honestly I have never had an issue with the kids from PM noticing the AM work. I'm not quite sure that they even know there is another class that comes in the morning before they come, LOL.
DeleteHello, thanks for sharing your great ideas about nutrition an important topic in early primary.
ReplyDeleteHow could we teach kids to have good choice meal if at home they do not choose what they eat. I provided everyday a healthy snack to my preschoolers but they always said they are allow to eat sugar and more sugar. I talked to parents about that and some of them do not support much. Recently, I organized a project and my students are quite smart to decide for veggies or fruits but at home sadly is another story. A lot of parents participated in our proyect I was happy about it and one of them brought marshmallows ups!
If any of you have ideas they are very welcome.Thanks
Lourdes Geyer
preschool teacher
Hello Lourdes,
DeleteThanks for the comment. That is a great question. I would just keep encouraging and educating the parents on what is healthy and what's not. Also, the project you did sounds wonderful. Just make sure to involve parents and maybe send home activities that they can do at home with the children, such as making a healthy recipe. Keep up the good work! Sadly, there is only so much we can do as educators when the parents refuse to cooperate. Good luck!
Hi Lori, I can not agree more with you, educators have to continue our arduous work with children and educating parents as well. Thanks for the idea to send home some of the activities, I had not thought of that, is a good way to involve parents in our unit, I'm sure that children will explain to their parents our healthy choices and why. I love the idea about healthy recipe. Thanks for your support and for your optimism. Have a great day,
DeleteLourdes Geyer Preschool teacher.
Hello Lourdes and Lori, there are a lot of areas in the lives of our students where we just have a little influence. Of course, it's the parents' duty to educate their kids. But when we see wrong developments, we should intervene, like often in nutrition. If we can change the view of just some parents, we should be happy because some are better than nobody.
DeleteIn my experience, little students react very positively on colors, shapes etc. So cutting vegetables and fruit in special shapes, decorate plates or slices of bread in funny ways, giving meals creative fantasy names support a positive reaction. The kids can also participate in this creative praparations. Maybe they continue that at home.
Do the school's cafeteria offers healthy food and snacks? That would be an important part of the whole project about nutrition.
Keep your enthusiasm!
Richard Bloom, Primary School Teacher
Hi Richard,
DeleteThanks for your comments and great ideas, at school works a nurse she helps a lot, she talks about nutrition in a proper way, I have learned a lot from her. My school's cafeteria offers 2 menus I have to go with my preschoolers and push them a bit to taste the salat bar, but I'm not every day with them because I have other duties. So that means they have to decide by themselves, after our project I'm sure they are aware about better choice for eat, great discussion.
Lourdes Geyer
Thanks for the comment! I will check out your blog as well.
ReplyDeleteI like the food chart ideas. My preschoolers would love to make one of those!
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