These next 4 weeks we are going to learn about healthy eating!!!!!
Children in kindergarten are at the perfect age to start to learn about healthy eating concepts. Young children are vulnerable and tend to internalize what they learn and accept it as fact. Having healthy eating policies in place will ensure that kindergarten-age children learn what a nutritious food is as well as how to identify a food that will not provide any nutrition.
This week we started to read the book "The very hungry caterpillar" where the children were introduced to different fruits. we are also reinforcing the numbers and their values from 1 – 5.
1 Apple
2- pears
3-Plumps
4-Strawberries
5-oranges
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpISHA8Fs4w
In the second week we are going to discuss about different vegetables such as: carrots, Cabbage, cauliflower, mushroom, corn, onion, lettuce, broccoli, potato, peas, etc
During the third week we are going to introduce different types of cereals, pasta, milk
Different types of pasta
Different types of milk products
Cereals
During the last week we are going to talk about different types of meat and the importance of not eating a lot of junk foods and sweets as they are not healthy!!!!!!!!!!! We are going to show children the food pyramid and as an activity children will be encouraged to “choose my plate”
The food pyramid
Choose my plate
