Today
we switched gears from germs to healthy foods.
Our book of the day was The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. The kids knew the story, which was helpful. We focused on the foods in the story (instead
of the butterfly life-cycle……we re-visit this story later this spring when we
learn about creepy-crawlies).
During
our reading, we used felt-board manipulatives, predicting how many were needed
for each day of the week. We decided if
each food was ‘healthy’ or ‘not healthy’.
We counted, added, and graphed each food. I’ll post a picture tomorrow! Can your child tell you the story?
After
the story, we took small pictures of foods and categorized each into categories
on a small tree map. We will revisit
this activity each day this week while keeping the ‘germs’ vocabulary as
well. This makes for many words- more
fun!
In preparation for our market visit on Wednesday, we pretended to be vendors,
selling our vegetables. Given only
plastic food, money and a cash register, the children immediately knew what to
do! One took the role of the vendor, and
the others filed in line to buy a veggie each.
They even switched roles without prompts from me and everyone had a
turn. I even heard words like “customers”
and greetings such as “May I help you?” I
was so proud!
Likewise,
new manipulatives appeared on the playground- a small bakery with a rounded
display case and cash register and a grill filled with bar-be-que
supplies. Again, the children took turns
(OK, this time they needed a little help…..) to take the needed roles. It was great!
After
lunch and journals, the children enjoyed seeing today’s story come to life in a
short video on youtube. You can watch
it together below. They asked to see it
again and again…..finally I said to ask “Mommies” and I would send you the
link. Here it is!
Tucker came in this morning with BIG news.....he lost his first tooth! Look out toothfairy!
The
kids are already talking about making soup on Friday! How much fun!
