ACTIVITY PLAN 1

NWTC Student Name: Justin Powell Date: May 7, 2015

Learning Experience: Nutritional

Concepts to be reinforced:

(1) Eating food helps children grow, play, learn, feel happy, and stay well.

(2) It is important to eat many different foods.

(3) A healthy diet must be balanced with physical activity.

Childrens Book

Good Enough To Eat Author and Illustrator Lizzy Rockwell

Setting: Table / Classroom / Grocery Store

Small Group Activities

Developmental Goal: :

Goal: ( 1 ) The knowledge of knowing and understanding healthy food

Developmental Domain: Fine or small motor

Developmental Expectation : Children develop the knowledge and skills to make nutritious food choices

Performance Standard(s): Exhibits Eye Hand Coordination, Strength, Control, And Object Manipulation

Learning Objectives: (What will the child do during this activity to meet the goal?)

( 1 ) The child will learn to describe food by color, taste, shape, texture, and smell

( 2 ) The child will learn that food will help you grow, think, breath, move, stay cool, stay warm, fight
germs, heal, and live

( 3 ) The child will learn understanding of nutritious foods through play and art

Motor and Cognitive Skills involved:

Seeing, smelling feeling, comparing, matching, cutting, mixing, peeling, pouring, holding, measuring,
washing, pouring, identifying, starting, stopping, comparing, spreading, shaking, dipping, moving, and
washing hands

Materials Needed:
( 1 ) 1 sock
( 2 ) 1 Apple, 1 Orange, 1 Banana, 1 Kiwi, 1 Pear
( 3 ) 1 Marker
( 4 ) 3 Paper Plates
( 5 ) 3 Stamp Pads
( 6 ) Food Group Stampers
( 7 ) CD music
( 8 ) Good Enough To Eat book
( 9 ) Orange and green paint
( 10 ) 2 Plastic bowls
( 11 ) 1 Bucket of water
( 12 ) 2 Paint brushes
( 12 ) 1 Towel
( 13 ) 1 Laundry bag
( 14 ) 1 Cooking Pot
( 15 ) 2 Yellow Onions
( 16 ) 6 Red Potatoes
( 17 ) 4 Stalks of Green Celery
( 18 ) 3 Orange Carrots
( 19 ) 7 Cups of Golden Chicken Broth
( 20 ) 8 Scoops of Brown Rice
( 21 ) 9 Green Basil Leaves
( 13 ) Plastic shopping carts
( 14 ) Brown paint
( 15 ) Glue
( 16 ) Play food items
( 17 ) Scissors
( 18 ) Construction paper
( 19 ) Permission slip
( 21 ) Paper grocery bag, play food, play money, cash register, and small shopping cart
( 22 ) 1 Pear per child
( 23 ) 1 Kiwi per child
( 24 ) Bag of Dried Apricots
( 25 ) Bag of Mozzarella Balls
( 26 ) 1 Hard-Boiled Egg
( 27 ) 1 Cooked Egg
( 28 ) Index Cards
( 29 ) Obstacles to go Under, Over or Around
( 30 ) Cones
( 31 ) Mats to walk on

Motivation/Introduction:
I will do the Smelly Sock activity. The using a three of the five senses, seeing, feeling, and smelling will
get the children engaged.

Pre-Lesson Preparation Needed: Yes

Describe:
( 1 ) Contact grocery store
( 2 ) Field trip slip signed

Procedure: (This should read like a recipe listing everything you and the children will do.)
1. Smelly Socks
- Present 5 fruits an apple, an orange, a banana, a kiwi, and a pear
- Ask a variety of questions, like What is this? What shape is the fruit? What color is this?
- Place each fruit in a clean sock
- Let children take turns smelling, touching, and describing whats in the sock
- Without peeking see if children can guess whats in the sock

2. My Plate project
- Children are given 1 paper plate
- There is 1 red, 1 green, 1 orange, and 1 purple stamp pads present
- Food stampers of all 4 sections of the food plate on the table
- Using 1 marker, let the children draw on plate into 4 separate sections
- With the stampers, put each into the proper color associated with the food group
- Wash hands thoroughly completed
- Put materials away and wash the table

3. Pass the Egg

- Ask a question Where do eggs come from?
- After discussing it, show the children what the inside of a hard boiled egg looks like
- Then show what a an uncooked egg looks like
- Put the hard - boiled egg in a shell to pass around the class circle when music plays
- When the music stops, the child whom has the egg rolls it across the circle to a friend

4. Good Enough To Eat book

- Gather the children together
- Reflect back on the My Plate project and talk about healthy foods
- Read the story and ask questions throughout the book
- After finishing the book tell the children the class will be going on a field trip to a grocery store

5. Hand and Foot Carrot Print

- Each children is given 1 paper plate
- Orange and green paint is present
- The paint is poured into two small plastic bowls
- 1 bucket of cold water and towel is placed on the floor
- The child doing the activity takes off 1 sock and 1 shoe
- The pants leg is rolled up so it will not get painted or wet
- With a paint brush, the bottom of the childs foot is painted orange
- After the foot is covered, the foot is placed down at the bottom of the paper plate, which is located on the floor
- The foot is cleaned by putting it into the water bucket and dried off using the towel
- When completely dried, the sock and shoe is put back on
- With another paint brush, green paint is painted on the inside of the childs hand
- Then placed on the top of the plate, just above the orange paint
- The child washes their hands and dries them
- The name of the child is put on the plate and placed out of the childrens reach to dry
- Change out the water bucket between children
- When the project is completed, dump out the water bucket in the sink, scrubbing all the paint off
- Throw away the two bowls with the paint into the garbage
- Wash off the paint brushes
- Put the towel in the laundry bag to be washed
- Wash the table

6. Field trip to a grocery store

- Contacted a manager of a local grocery store to organize and set up a tour of the store
- A permission slip needs to be sent home and returned from the family allowing the child to go
- The center brought the proper amount of teachers to meet ratio requirements
- The class traveled in a center van
- The class picks out all the ingredients for vegetable soup, corn, beans, carrots, celery, and onions
- After collecting the items, the class begins the tour
- The places the class visits is the storage room, the freezer, the cooler, meat packaging area, and the prepared food
area

- The center pays for the food and returns back to the center

7. Vegetable Soup cooking project

- The center cook enters the classroom with all the materials, ingredients, and a cart
- Wash the food surface
- All children and teachers wash hands with soap and water
- Wash all the food before use
- 1 Cooking pot is present
- 2 Yellow Onions
- 3 Red Potatoes
- 4 Stalks of Green Celery
- 3 Orange Carrots
- 6 Plump Red Tomatoes
- 7 Cups of Golden Chicken Broth
- 8 Scoops of Brown Rice
- 9 Green Basil Leaves
- The children help prepare vegetable soup
- After the soup is put together the cook puts it on the cart and back to the kitchen
- The cook finishes the making of it in the kitchen
- The children later that day eat the vegetable soup

8. Shopping Obstacle Course

- In advance write the numbers 1, 2 , & 3 on several cards
- Give a child a card and tell them they have to purchase that many items at the store that is on the other end of the
room
- They need to get past the obstacles to get to the store
- The children will follow the course to the store
- Once there, they need to find all the items as listed on their card
- Place the items in the bag and then follow the course back to the beginning

9. Play Grocery Store

- The classroom house area is given a grocery store look

- The following morning they will find a little shopping cart, play food, a cash register, play money, and shopping
bags
- Thinking back on the sights and sounds of the grocery store environment, children can play grocery store the rest
of the week
10. Duck Pear Snack
- There are 4 ingredients to make this snack
- 1 Pear for each child
- 1 Kiwi for each child
- Bag of Dried Apricots
- Bag of Mozzarella Balls
- Cut a pear the long ways to make the body of the duck
- Cut a kiwi slice into the shape of a Ducks head
- Fold a dried apricot length wise to make the Ducks bills
- Place 2 more dry apricots below the body to make Ducks feet
- Slice 1 mozzarella ball in half and use each half to make the Ducks eyes on either side of his head
- The children eat later that day
Closure/Transition: When the activity is done, how will you finish it? How will you include the child in the
closure?

I will send home a list of simple healthy recipes that the family can do together at home

Evaluation:
( 1 ) If the children can tell which foods are healthy foods
( 2 ) If the children can describe the look, feel, color, and taste of certain foods
( 3 ) If the children can explain how food keeps the body healthy

Suggestions for follow up activities:

( 1 ) Apple Prints
( 2 ) Hokey Pokey Song ( Fruit and Veggies )
( 3 ) Field Trip Thank You Letter
( 4 ) The Edible Pyramid Author and Illustrator : Loreen Leedy
 ACTIVITY PLAN 2
NWTC Student Name: Justin Powell Date: May 7, 2015

Learning Experience: Health

Concepts to be reinforced:

(1) Hands should always be washed carefully before eating or touching food.

(2) Cleanliness of all foods and the people who handle foods prevents illness.

(3) Involving children in food preparation teaches important lessons about how food must be handled to
keep it safe

Childrens Book :

Germs Make Me Sick Author : Melvin Berger Illustrator : Marylin Hafner

Setting: (Where will this activity take place? Kitchen, outdoors, at table, etc.)

Large group and small group

Developmental Goal: (Why are you doing this activity?)

Goal : To understand the proper way to stay safe and healthy

Developmental Domain: Self Help and Adaptive

Developmental Expectation: Children develop the knowledge to be safe and healthy

Performance Standard(s): Demonstrates Behavior To Meet Self Help And Physical Needs

Learning Objectives: (What will the child do during this activity to meet the goal?)

The child will lean that hand washing prevents germs, and getting sick

The child will learn that exercise helps the body

The child will that taking care of personal hygiene can prevent sickness

Motor and Cognitive Skills involved:

Washing, touching, listening, singing, holding, cutting, coloring, gluing, pushing, looking, coloring,
comparing, blowing, folding, measuring
Materials Needed:

( 1 ) Dirt
( 2 ) Magnified glass
( 3 ) 1 working sink with hot and cold water
( 4 ) 2 dry hand towel per student ( dirt & drying )
( 3 ) Foaming hand soap ( enough for the students to share )
( 4 ) 1 sturdy piece of paper per child
( 5 ) 1 Marker
( 6 ) 1 Brown Crayon
( 7 ) Food Coloring
( 8 ) Bubble Mix
( 9 ) Piece of Paper
( 10 ) Cotton Balls
( 11 ) Glue
( 12 ) Markers
( 13 ) 1 Dental Mirror per child
( 14 ) 2 Apples
( 15 ) 3 Carrots
( 16 ) 3 Bananas
( 17 ) Paper Towels
( 18 ) Colored paper
( 19 ) Tape
( 20 ) Small rectangular piece of cardboard
( 21 ) Stickers
Motivation/Introduction

The activity of hand washing is a hands on, getting physically involved exercise. This will give children
an involvement into what procedures keep people healthy
Pre-Lesson Preparation Needed: Yes
- Get dental mirrors
- Collect dirt
- Magnified glasses

Procedure: (This should read like a recipe listing everything you and the children will do.)
1. Cleaning Your Hands
- Discussion as a class the importance of hand washing
- Cover the childrens hands with dirt
- Using 1 paper towel try to dry their hands
- Take a magnified glass and let them look at their hands
- They will see dirt is still on their hands
- The children will wash their hands in the sink
- Washing hands until they sing the all of the ABCs wash their hands and put soap on.
- Hand each child a paper hand towel and help them to thoroughly dry their hands off

2. Dirty Hands and Clean Hands art project

- Trace the childs hands 4 times on paper
- Let the child cut the traced hands out
- With 1 brown crayon, let the child scribble all over 2 of the hands, symbolizing dirty hands
- With 1 sturdy piece of big paper, glue all 4 hands to the paper
- Use blue stamp pad, with a small circular stamp, and let them put many dots all over the two other hands,
representing soup
- Next to the dirty hands, write the word dirty, and by the clean hands, the word clean

3. Germs Will Make You Sick song ( Hokey Pokey )

- The class gathers together
- The teacher sings the song Germs Will Make You Sick
Germs are really mean,
But they cant be seen,
They will make you sick,
Then you will feel ick.
Use some soap and water,
Scrub your hands to get them clean -
Clean is what its all about!

4. Germs Make Me Sick book

- Gather the children together

- Reflect back on the hand washing exercise and review the proper way to wash your hands
- Read the story and ask questions throughout the book

5. Bubble Art
- Add food coloring to bubble mix
- Blow bubbles outside
- The children have a piece of paper
- Catch the bubble on the piece of paper

6. Teeth Time
- Children will observe teeth in their mouth with dentil mirrors
- Explain they are small round mirrors real dentist use
- Talk about healthy foods we should eat
- After looking at their teeth the children will wash their hands
- Then help wash 2 apples, 3 bananas, and 1 carrot
- Children will eat some food
- The children will wash hands again

7. Clean Tooth
- Show a drawing of a tooth on a big piece of paper with cotton balls
- The children will be given a piece of paper
- 1 marker each
- The children will draw a big tooth
- The children are given cotton balls and glue
- The children will glue on the cotton ball on to the tooth

8. Refrigerator Drawings
- Gather the class together and discuss how certain food and drinks needs to be refrigerated
- With play food from house area give examples of cheese, hot dog, and milk
- The children are given paper and crayons
- Children create drawings of what is in their refrigerator at home

9. Placemats
- Give the children a big piece of paper
- The children are given markers
- The children can make any creative design
- The children put their name on it

10. Paper Chefs Hat

- Tape 2 pieces of colored paper together down the center
- The band on chefs hat
- Children can use markers, crayon, and stickers to decorate it
- Take 2 big pieces of white paper
- Tape them together down the center
- Fold the white paper over the cardboard 1 centimeter
- Take cardboard out and continue folding the paper over and over
- When white paper has ridges all the way across use tape to attach the colored paper to it
- Tape all around edges so it is strong
- With help measure the hat around the childs head so it fits
- Tape it together

Closure/Transition: When the activity is done, how will you finish it? How will you include the child in the
closure?

The child will send the chefs hat and placemat home. Giving the child enthusiasm to help out in the
kitchen

Evaluation:

( 1 ) If the children can wash their hands properly

( 2 ) If the children can describe what a germ is
( 3 ) If the children can show an understanding about how to take care of their teeth
Suggestions for follow up activities:

- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Author and Illustrator Eric Carle

- Mystery Food Game
- Vegetable People
- Play Supermarket

Scoring Guide
Criteria Student Ratings Instructor Ratings

Two activities are completed and each addresses an 3 3 2 1 0

identified concept.

Activities are developmentally appropriate for 3 3 2 1 0

preschool aged children

Appropriate learning objectives are identified for each 3 3 2 1 0

activity

Activities demonstrate relation to concept and 3 3 2 1 0

objectives used

Activities include appropriate detail in description of 3 3 2 1 0

procedure and materials

Appropriate evaluation and comments are included 3 3 2 1 0

Appropriate suggestions for follow-up activities are 3 3 2 1 0

included

Activity plan is neat and organized and evidences 3 3 2 1 0

correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling

Scoring guide with self - evaluation completed is Yes 1 Yes 1 no 0

included at the end of document.

25 / 25 points ______/25 points