Unit 8: Plants We Eat

This list gives you an overview of all the materials you will need throughout this 3-week unit, except for the materials used in the Learning Centers. (Those are indicated with each Learning Center.) Note that you will also find a list of specific materials needed for each week at the beginning of that week.

• “A” stencil cutouts (one for each child)
• “Aa” stamps
• alfalfa or clover sprout seeds
• aluminum pie pan
• apron
• assortment of vegetables, fruits, and herbs that grow in different places (on the vine, on a bush, in the ground, etc.) and that have different edible parts (roots, fruits, seeds, etc.) (for example, tomato, grapes, cabbage, cucumber, beans, limes, carrot, cauliflower, onions, chilies)
• avocado
• bags
• Between the Lions alphabet chart
• bite-sized fruits/vegetables with different tastes/textures, such as mango, banana, celery, green peppers, carrots
• bowls
• camera or cell phone with camera
• chalk (optional)
• chart paper
• cheesecloth
• children’s bean plants from previous weeks
• Chinese vegetables featured in The Ugly Vegetable
• clipboard
• color chart
• construction paper
• cup of water
• drawing materials
• egg carts (one for each child)
• feathers
• “Ff” stamps
• “Ff” stencil cutouts (one for each child)
• foam shapes
• food trays (one for each child)
• forks
• fruit samples (apple, peach, kiwi, avocado, banana, melon, orange, tomato, watermelon)
• glass jar
• glasses of juice, water, or milk and drinking straws
• glue
• illustrations of wind blowing a seed, water carrying a seed, animal eating a seed, seed on animal’s fur (one of each for each child)
• knife (for cutting fruits and vegetables)
• letter cards: “Ff,” “Vv,” and “Aa”
• magnifying lenses
• markers, pencils, crayons
• masking tape
• name cards
• name chart
• newspaper
• nonstandard measuring tools
• notebooks (small, one for each child)
• old socks (pair for each child)
• paper
• paper bags (for collecting)
• paper clips
• paper plates and utensils
• picture of dried, sugared pineapple (or other man-made food)
• pictures and picture books of plant foods that begin with “Ff”
• pictures of a produce aisle at the grocery store
• pictures of fruits, vegetables, and seeds
• pictures of things that start with letter sound /v/
• pictures of apple, banana, orange, plum, broccoli, blueberries (rainbow colors)
• pictures of leaf and root vegetables
• picture of a van
• plastic containers
• plastic plates
• recipes written on cards
• rubber band
• ruler
• salsa, guacamole, or nachos (optional)
• salsa ingredients: tomato, onion, garlic, cilantro, and lime (optional)
• sandpaper
• scales
• scissors
• seeds
• sentence chart
• sentence strips
• small slices of peeled apple
• small slices of peeled potato (same shape as apple slices)
• small stacking cubes
• small suitcase
• sprouted seed plants
• sprouts
• stickers of letter “Aa” and stickers of fruits and vegetables that begin with /a/ (apples, apricots, avocados, asparagus, artichokes)
• stickers of objects that begin with /f/ (numbers 4 and 5, flowers, fruits, etc.)
• stickers and/or stamps of objects that begin with /v/ (for decorating)
• string
• stuffed animals
• tape
• toothpicks
• toy potato
• “V” stencil cutout for each child
• vegetable grater
• vegetables (a variety of root, leaf, and stem, as well as ethnic varieties; include broccoli and cauliflower)
• word cards farm, vegetable, apple

Books

A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds by Jean Richards
Bee-Bim Bop! by Linda Sue Park
Chicks and Salsa by Aaron Reynolds
Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z by Lois Ehlert
The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin

Videos

“Bee-Bim Bop!” (BTL show) (0:04:46)
“Chicks and Salsa” (BTL show) (0:06:53)
“Collecting and Sorting” (PEEP live-action clip) (0:01:28)
“Peep Plants a Seed” (PEEP show) (0:08:45)
“Colorful Food” (BTL clip) (0:00:26)
“Cliff Hanger and the Fabulous Flying Fish” (BTL clip) (0:01:54)
“Fred Says: vacuum” (BTL clip) (0:00:40)
“Opposite Bunny: yummy/yucky” (BTL clip) (0:00:49)
“Doo Wop (short a)” (BTL clip) (0:00:18)
“What’s Your Name? (a)” (BTL clip) (0:00:50)
“Word Morph: fox–foot–football” (BTL clip) (0:00:21)
“Words Beginning with ‘f”” (BTL clip) (0:00:18)
“Words Beginning with ‘v’” (BTL clip) (0:00:24)
“You Never Hear the Garden Grow” (BTL clip) (0:00:43)

Interactive Game

“Hide and Peep” (PEEP game)

Playlist

Unit 8 Media Assets (BTL and PEEP)
URL: http://resourcesforearlylearning.org/children/

Songs

“Apples and Bananas”
“Good-bye to You”
“Hello, Hello, Everyone”
“Here We Go Round the Alphabet”
“Hola Greeting Song”
“Look Who Came to School Today”
“Old MacDonald Grew Some Plants”
“Sing, Sing, Sing with Me”
“The Chicks Make the Salsa”
“The Cook in the Kitchen”
“The Opposite Song”
“What Aroma Do I Smell?”
“Who Are You?”

Poems and Chants

“Five Fat Peas”
“Five Fine Carrots”
“If I Could Have a Garden”
“Who Stole the Onions from the Farmer’s Field?”
“You Never Hear the Garden Grow”