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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.