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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.

Taste Test

Make your child a “taste tester” as you prepare meals. Help her describe how foods smell, feel, look, and taste.

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.

Tasty Traditions

Introduce your child to another culture by making a traditional soup or salad from a culture other than your own.

Tomato and Cheese Sandwich

Have children draw to illustrate as you read the steps it takes to make a tomato and cheese sandwich.

Traveling Seeds

Have children explore how seeds travel by covering a sheet of paper with paint and glue and blowing the dandelion seeds onto their papers to see how seeds travel and spread out.

Watch Together: “Bee-bim Bop!” (BTL show)

Play the video Between the Lions “Bee-bim Bop!” Have children listen for the plant foods that go into the bee-bim bop.

Watch Together: “Chicks and Salsa” (BTL show) #1

Play the video Between the Lions “Chicks and Salsa.” Focus children on the plants the animals use in their recipes.

Watch Together: “Chicks and Salsa” (BTL show) #2

Play the video Between the Lions “Chicks and Salsa.” Have children act out scenes in the show.  

Watch Together: “Chicks and Salsa” (BTL show) #3

Play the Between the Lions video “Chicks and Salsa.” Have children listen for the vegetables in the story.

Watch Together: “Collecting and Sorting” (PEEP live-action clip)

Play the video PEEP and the Big Wide World “Collecting and Sorting.” Discuss how the children in the video sort their collections.  

Watch Together: “Colorful Food” (BTL clip) #2

Play the video Between the Lions “Colors and Food.” Have children name other plants that are the same color as the plants in the video.

Watch Together: “Doo Wop (short /a/)” (BTL clip)

Watch the video Between the Lions “Doo Wop (short a).” Clap the syllables in some of the words. 

Watch Together: “Fred Says: vacuum” (BTL clip)

Play the Between the Lions video “Fred Says: vacuum.” Have children clap the word parts in vacuum.

Watch Together: “Peep Plants a Seed” #4 (PEEP show)

Watch the video Peep and the Big Wide World “Peep Plants a Seed” to review what children have learned about seeds and plants.

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