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Draw and Write Together: My Favorite Dinner

Have children draw a picture of their favorite dinner food and write or dictate a sentence about the food.

Draw and Write Together: Our Recipe Book

Talk about recipes. Have children bring in a recipe from home to add to the class’s “Our Recipe Book.”

Draw and Write Together: Plants We Like

Have children make a graph of their favorite plants to eat.

Draw and Write Together: The Vegetable I Like Best

Display a chart of different leaf and root vegetables. Have children graph which they like best.

Draw and Write Together: Vegetable Riddles

Help children dictate or write riddles about root and leaf vegetables.

Draw and Write Together: What’s for Dinner?

Have children draw a picture of food they would want for dinner. Have them dictate or write a sentence describing the food.  

Draw and Write Together: Write about Leaf and Root Vegetables

Have children use descriptive vocabulary to describe root and leaf vegetables. Invite them to draw the vegetables to illustrate their descriptions.

New Flavors

Try a food your child has never had before. Talk about how it tastes and find out where and how it’s grown.

Play Together: “Hide and Peep” #1 (PEEP game)

Play the game Peep and the Big Wide World “Hide and Peep” and have children remember where the characters hid.

Read Together: A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds #1

Read the book, comparing a fruit to a suitcase. Have children notice all “fruit suitcases.”

Read Together: A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds #2

Reread the story and focus children on different ways a seed can travel from one place to another.

Read Together: Bee-bim Bop!

Discuss how different countries and families have their own special recipes. Read the story and have children notice all the foods in the bee-bim bop.

Read Together: Chicks and Salsa #1

Read the book Chicks and Salsa with children and focus on how the animals in the story solve their problem.

Read Together: Chicks and Salsa #2

Reread the book and discuss how people eat different foods all over the world.

Read Together: Chicks and Salsa #3

Reread Chicks and Salsa. Have children name root or leaf vegetables they recognize.

Read Together: Eating the Alphabet #1

Read about plant foods that begin with every letter of the alphabet and have children identify which part of the plant each food is from.

Read Together: Eating the Alphabet #2

Reread the story and have children call out the names of the plants they know.

Read Together: Educator’s Choice, Unit 8, Week 1

Read Chicks and Salsa, Eating the Alphabet, or another book about plants animals (including humans) eat.

Read Together: Educator’s Choice, Unit 8, Week 2

Read a book about plants and have children identify the leaf and root plants in the story.

Read Together: The Ugly Vegetables #2

Reread the story. Focus children on the words used to describe the vegetables and the garden.

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