- chart paper
- color markers or crayons
- pictures of apple, banana, orange, plum, broccoli, blueberries
- tape
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.2: Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12: Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
Watch Together: “Colorful Food” (BTL clip) #2
STEM Key Concepts: There are many different types of plants; Plants have different parts: roots, stems, and leaves; Many foods we eat come from plants; We eat certain leaves, roots, fruits, and seeds
ELA Focus Skills: Color Identification, Health and Nutrition Awareness, Vocabulary
Tell children they are going to watch the video clip Between the Lions “Colors and Food” about the colors of plant foods. Hold up the book Eating the Alphabet and say, As we saw in this book, plant foods come in many different colors. Let’s watch some children find plant foods in lots of different colors.
Replay the video and pause after each color. Ask children to name what part of the plant the fruit or vegetable comes from. Then ask them to name another plant food that is the same color.
English Language Learners: If children are unable to recall the name of a fruit or vegetable, invite them to flip through Eating the Alphabet and point to the picture. Have them repeat the food after you. For example, say, Cabbage. Then use the word in a sentence and have them repeat the sentence. The green cabbage is a leaf plant.
Adaptation: Simplify for very young children. Identify the color of a fruit or vegetable and then ask children where it belongs on the rainbow.
Adaptation: Challenge older children to name other fruits and vegetables, identify their colors, and tell other foods that are the same color. You may want to display color cards for children to reference when identifying colors.
