Journal actvity: Drawing and

Descriptive poem about

favorite food

"Growing Vegtable
Soup" By Louis Elhert

Dramatic play/Music and movement

Read as a class"I
Will Never Not
Ever Eat a
Tomatoe" by
Lauren Child.
Introduce concept
that different color
fruits and vegatbles
give us different
nutrients: Phytonutrients

Can we taste the Rainbow?

Supermarket Scavenger Hunt
(See Lesson Plan #2)

Dramatic play areas, can

become a restaurant,
farmer's market,
supermarket or farm.

Literacy
Read as a class "Super
Sprouts" by Radha Agrawal

Food Preparation:
prepare a colorful
meal as a class and
then eat it for lunch:

Food Study

Math

"Eating the
Alphabet" by
Louis Elhert

"Eat Lots of Colors: A

Colorful look at Healthy
Nutrition for Children"
BY Helen Marstiller and
Valarie Bouthyette

Art

Food Drive
and
preparation
for those in
need.

Taste tests; voting on

a tallying favorite food

Create a pattern with differnt

fruits or vegtables

Estimating how many

seeds are in an apple

Planting a
class herbgarden

Social Studies

Sprouting: lima bean

avocadoe pit., potatoe

science

Food from
different parts of
the world

composting

Use food to create different

color dye and then tye dye.

Follow up activity: create class rainbow. As

the students eat from different color food
groups fill in the rainbow.

scuplting a
fruit or
vegatble out
of model
magic or clay.

Feild tript to Urban Farms

in battery park city

What fruits
and vegtables
do we have in
our local
supermarket

Parts of a Plant that are

edible: taste test and
tally (see lesson pal)