Today marked the beginning of a brand new thematic unit (designed by yours truly) on health and nutrition. Much of it is centered around the food pyramid and all of that good vocabulary--I was a little alarmed two weeks ago when our speech therapist said my kids didn't know the word "meat".
Anyways, as part of the unit, I had the kids design the cover to a "Taste Book". There are about ten lined pages inside. Each day, we're going to taste some exotic and/or uncommon food and write some sentences about it (its name, what food group it belongs to, what it looks like, and what it tastes like). Today's new taste sensation was a pomelo, which is kind of like a yellow, sweet grapefruit. Everyone really enjoyed it... And I'm patting myself on the back for something fun to show off at our Open House in May! Now, I just need to think of other uncommon food items to bring in daily for the next two weeks. Suggestions anyone?
Later in the day, we were using our sentence patterns to tell each other what our favorite food in each food group was. I went first: "My favorite grain is cereal". A few other kids went next, then one student said "My favorite grain is DONUTS!"
Yeah. Me too, kid, me too.
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4 comments:
You sure know how to use natural motivation for your lesson plans!
Proud of you. Dad
Unusual food.....hmm. Over here that would be snails! I bet they have them in a jar at Cost Plus over there on Sunflower! Mom
He was quite chubby!
I tried to find a pomelo when I was going into my son's first grade class to talk to them about trying new things, and I couldn't find one anywhere! I checked five grocery stores and had to settle for a champagne mango or papaya or something like that. I've still never had a pomelo!
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