After all the community helpers talk on Doctors and Dentists we shifted the focus this week to HEALTHY EATING! Taking good care of our bodies is a mitzvah in the Torah, and making healthy food choices can prevent us from needing Doctors!
These first years of a child's life are a crucial time to foster good eating habits as well as opportune time to encourage children to explore new foods so that their taste buds will get used to a variety of flavors!
Community helper of the week: Cashier, Store keeper.
One way to help children try new foods, and broaden their "menu's" is to make them PART OF THE PROCESS!
Instead of just seeing a new 'green thing' on their plate-- your child can see it in the store (pick it even better :) name it, touch it and even propose different ways of preparing it!
This will help the child become familiar with what's on their plate and increase the chances of them actually eating it!
With this in mind...(and the MANY other learning opportunities it included) we opened our very own
SUPER MARKET!
This was also a great way to role play picking out healthy foods, paying for their items as well as patience while waiting on line!
Thank you to all the parents for stocking our shelves with empty containers from your homes!
Happy customer ! :)
A well stocked house!
Shua paying for his items, while Noach was role playing what he has experienced at stores!
On his own he scanned the items, pressed some buttons and bagged all shua's items!
Now Shua was on the other end.... writing a receipt!
Rochel bagging a customers items.
You might have heard about THE FOOD PYRAMID.
Now it is called 'MY PLATE' - it is a more practical way to understand how much of the food groups we are to try to eat.
First we started with FRUIT.
Apple sets were placed on the table with contact paper for the children to make pictures of apples.
It seemed the children enjoyed the fact that instead of gluing their apple down they were able to pick it up and move it somewhere else they wanted it to be.
Mendel created apple people.
Jacob was very animated while explaining his apple picture.
It was time to touch, smell and taste some real fruit!
Yitzi feeling an avocado
Oh boy did they love the avocado! :) couldn't cut it fast enough!
Just cutting the apples in a different direction was a good way to open a discussion about what's inside.
We over heard a discussion about if you eat the peel or not. It was controversial but some were willing to try it! ;)
Here was a regular clementine that most have in their lunch boxes but cutting it in half made it look completely different than what they were used to. One child said " It looks like a flower!"
Fun with Velcro fruit!
A cute moment during all the busy shopping, Menucha comforting Devorah Leah who was visiting our class.
Fruit motor skills!
A picture of fruit placed behind our peg board, and the children were challenged to try to fill in with the correct color pieces in the fruit picture.
Chanis favorite color is purple! :)
Feeding little people healthy fruit that are COLORFUL!
We have been talking a lot about all the beautiful colors Hashem made the fruit have.
Using cut out blank fruit papers and paper people standing up with their mouth as the opening. The children had opportunity to choose the correct color to decorate their fruit and then FEED the delicious fruit to the paper people!!
Apple sewing:
Learning through our regular routines.
Teachable moments come up throughout our day!
Here Morah Lisa brought a big orange that the children had a chance to smell the delicious scent from the peel!
Vegetables!
With a table full of vegetables, Morah Lisa showed the children each vegetable and displayed them for the children to explore and observe before tasting!
Aron said his favorite was "lickorey" - celery . :)
Edamame was a hit for a lot of the children!!
Soy beans in their pod that children had a blast popping out and trying them.
One child decided these are 'Hashem's Jelly beans!"
Yitzi was unsure at first and then after watching his friends, he licked the different foods. This was a great reminder how a child discovers new food! Never give up! Always just place it on their plate and even if they lick it this is the beginning process of a new food item!
Chani just couldn't get enough of 'Hashem's jelly beans!"
Looking at the difference between a snap pea and a edamame.
Veggie inspired play-dough:
One morning we sorted colored playdough to their matching veggies! Children enjoyed creating those shapes with the dough!
Checking veggies:
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