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Kindergarten
Classroom
Home PageScience Units:
Social Studies Units
NUTRITION:
READING READINESS AND
MATH ACTIVITIESGETTING READY:
BOOKS: Gather non-fiction and fiction books about eating habits, good nutrition and the food groups. These can be displayed in the reading center for viewing by the students and used for oral reading by the teacher.
VIDEOS: Gather videos about developing good eating habits and the food groups. These can be viewed in ten minute segments when you are discussing a specific area of the unit.
PICTURES: Gather magazines with pictures of food to be used by students.
Gather pictures of food from each food group.
Label several pictures with the words meat, vegetable, fruit, bread, milk, etc.
Laminate these pictures for the bulletin board and the writing center.
POSTERS: Display posters showing the food groups.
NUTRITION CENTER: Display food from the house keeping center.
Have real fruits and vegetables for a tasting party.
COMPUTER CENTER: Teacher explore various multimedia encyclopedias for useful graphics and information on the food groups.
Before introducing the unit search the internet for useful graphics and information.
READING READINESS ACTIVITIES
- PHONICS/LETTER RECOGNITION:
Numerous methods are used to teach and reinforce letter recognition and phonetic sounds. The methods are varied day to day depending on the children's progress through out the year. The method is not important. The fact that the children do some writing using phonics every day is important.
The following are examples of just a few methods for teaching letter recognition and phonetic sounds.
*PHONETIC SOUNDS:
Children cut four or five pictures of single foods from magazines.
Label the picture either with the beginning letter or phonetically spell the name (does not have to be the actual spelling).
Share pictures with the class.
*CLASS BOOK:
Combine the above pictures as a class book to be view by all students.
On one page have each student draw a picture of himself and a picture of his favorite food.
Teacher help students fill in the information.
Johnny 's favorite food is pizza .
*CATEGORIES:
After discussing the different food groups have students cut pictures of single foods from magazines. Students put their pictures into groups of like foods. That is, they put together all the pictures of some kind of meat, some kind of bread, etc.
Give each child a paper plate.
Have each child choose any group of food and put three or more pictures from that food group in his paper plate.
Teacher escort the class from display to display allowing students to name the food group in each plate.
When this is complete, have the students go back to their display and secretly put one picture that does not belong with that category. The other children go from group to group telling what food does not belong.
Use these same pictures and paper plates for other activities. For example, have the students make a balanced meal on a paper plate. Allow students to view each others meal.
*CATEGORIES: Make a large mural or individual posters for each food group with the pictures of food the students cut from magazines. After discussing the different food groups and putting the pictures into like categories, teacher call for pictures for one category at a time. Students glue their pictures with the correct food group.
MATH READINESS ACTIVITIES
*MORE THAN/LESS THAN:
Discuss the concept of more than, less than.
Use pictures displayed in the food group mural (above) or food from house keeping to illustrate the meaning of more and less.
Compare other objects in the room.
Compare the number of students who prefer cheese pizza to the number that prefer pepperoni pizza, etc .
Make a chart to show the results.
Compare the results.
*ALIKE AND DIFFERENT:
Use plastic food from house keeping to sort food into groups of alike or different.
*ESTIMATING:
Use the mural the students made of the different food groups.
Ask the students to estimate the number of pictures in the meat group.
Record the students estimates.
Count the pictures.
Did you make a reasonable estimation?
Discuss how to make a good estimation.
Continue with the pictures in the other food groups.
*COUNTING:
Count the pictures in the food groups.
Record the answers.
Count the like foods in house keeping.
Record the answers.
*ADDING AND SUBTRACTING:
Use the magazine pictures for a flannel board or use toy food from house keeping to practice the meaning of adding and subtracting.
Use real food cut into slices to teach the meaning of subtracting.
Act it out. (Acting out the process of adding and subtracting in kindergarten will help the students understand written problems in first grade.) Example: Give each student a slice of bread (could add some jelly or peanut butter) and a plastic knife.
Tell the students to cut the bread into any given number of pieces.
Have the students eat two pieces.
How many pieces do you have left?
Continue until the bread is gone.
Use different foods to cut and add slices, etc.
Teacher cut up a piece of fruit or vegetable.
Students count the pieces.
Have a number of students eat some of the slices.
How many are left?
Use different kinds of foods until everyone has a chance to help with the subtracting. (Good opportunity to get students to try different types of fruits or veggies.)
*FRACTIONS:
As you work on the above demonstration of cutting the bread and fruit, point out you are cutting the food in half, in fourths, etc.
*GRAPHING:
Graph the students favorite foods, most disliked foods, foods never tried, foods you can fix for yourself, etc.
Count the results.
Record the answers.
Compare the answers.Internet Links:
- Food Clip Art for children
- Healthy Choices for Kids story and pictures about the food groups
- Food Guide Pyramid picture and explanation
- Nutrient Information list of nutrients and the foods supply
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