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Rhyme Time
Children play a rhyme match card game by turning over cards and “reading” the illustration or text and finding a card that rhymes.
Sing Together: “Old MacDonald Grew Some Plants”
Sing the song and encourage children to suggest other plants for additional verses.
Sing Together: “The Opposite Song”
Discuss opposite words and then sing the song.
Sing Together: “What Aroma Do I Smell?”
Review the word aroma and sing the song. Have children name a food smell they love.
Talk Together: Community Gardens
Define “community” and talk about community gardens with children.
Talk Together: Edible Sprouts
Pass around salad sprouts and have children explore and describe them.
Talk Together: Fruits, Vegetables, Seeds
Review plant parts animals (including humans) eat, and talk about seeds.
Talk Together: If I Could Have a Garden
Read the poem “If I Could Have a Garden.” Ask children which vegetables they would plant in their gardens.
Talk Together: Outdoor Seeds
Discuss seeds children brought in from home and have them predict how the seeds travel.
Talk Together: Parts We Eat
Talk about how animals, including humans, eat plant parts and plants that grow in many different places.
Talk Together: Plant Parts Animals Eat
Discuss the parts of plants that animals and humans eat.
Talk Together: Plants As Food
Talk about how food is a basic need, and how people often choose foods that taste good to fill that need.
Talk Together: Plants Taste Good
Provide an assortment of vegetables and have children describe how the vegetables taste.
Talk Together: Roots and Leaves
Have children use sensory descriptive language to talk about and compare different roots and leaves.
Talk Together: Seeds, Seeds, Seeds #2
Have children describe a fruit or vegetable they have eaten. Review that fruits have different types of and numbers of seeds.
Talk Together: Seeds Travel
Review the different ways seeds travel. Demonstrate with a dandelion seed and a pea.
Talk Together: Vegetable Parts
Discuss vegetable parts that people eat, including flowers.
Talk Together: Vegetables
Discuss vegetables with children. Review the book Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z from last week.
Talk Together: What’s at the Grocery Store?
Discuss what a grocery store is in the produce section of a grocery store. Children are introduced to the difference between man-made and natural foods.
Tasting Center
Create a tasting center with different foods on a table. Have children describe the foods and talk about what they like and dislike about each one.