Eating Healthy
Creating healthy meals
Instructions
- Gather 2 large paper plates, magazines, scissors, and glue
- Share with a child that some foods are healthy for you to eat as they make a body grow up strong. (vegetables, meat, fish, fruit, etc.) Some foods do not give the needed nutrients to help you grow and keep you healthy. (chips, soda, candy, etc.)
- Find pictures of foods (or draw your own foods) in magazines that would be healthy choices to eat
- Cut or tear out the pictures and glue on a paper plate
- Find pictures of foods (or draw your own foods) in magazines that would not be healthy to eat all the time
- Cut or tear out the pictures and glue on the second paper plate
- Place plates where the child can see easily to remind them of making proper food choices
Simplify
Share that a car needs gas to go and our bodies also need fuel to move, play, and think. Our bodies fuel is food and it is best to fill our bodies with healthy food choices.
Click here for a song about eating fruits and veggies that give me energy
Extend
Give the child a paper plate and let them fill the plate with pictures of foods they would like to eat for a healthy dinner. Share portion control and the number of items to eat at one meal.
Click here for a Food Bingo Game to play
Click here for more resources for keeping healthy and fit
QUESTIONS FOR CHILD
Why do we want to be healthy?
If you know a sick friend or family member, what could you do to make them feel better?
Materials
- two large paper plates
- old magazines
- scissors - blunt edge for children
- glue or glue stick
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Curriculum Plan Resources
Skills Focus
- Shape - Heart
- Color - Review
- Number - Six, 6
- Alphabet Letters - H, P
- Senses - Hearing
- Character Trait - Honesty
- Target Words - Good-by, Many, Match, Why
Monthly Proverb
If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.
Did You Know?
"Children with below average language skills can make rapid improvements if their parents take simple steps to change the way they interact with them." University of Sydney
Books to Read
"Museum ABC"
by Metropolitan Museum of Art (Activity 11)
"My Very First Book of Shapes"
by Eric Carle (Activity 2)
"Big Red Barn"
by Margaret Wise Brown (Activity 8)
"My Very First Book of Shapes" VIDEO
by Eric Carle (Activity 2)
"Big Red Barn" VIDEO
by Margaret Wise Brown (Activity 8)
"Museum ABC" VIDEO
by Metropolitan Museum of Art (Activity 11)
Music Playlist
"Old MacDonald Had a Farm"
by Countdown Kids Album 100 All Time Children’s Favorites (Activity 10)
"SalveRegina - Antiphona (tonus monasticus) in Honorem Beatae Mariae Virginias"
Album Salve Regina Gregorian Chant by Benedictine Monks of the Abby of Saint-Maurice & Saint-Maur, Clervaux (Activity 21)
"You’ll Be In My Heart"
by Phil Collins Album Tarzan (Movie Soundtrack) (Activity 18)
"Old MacDonald Had a Farm" VIDEO
by Countdown Kids 100 Silly Songs (Activity 10)
'SalveRegina - Antiphona (tonus monasticus) in Honorem Beatae Mariae Virginias" VIDEO
by Benedictine Monks of the Abby of Saint-Maurice and Saint -Maur, Clervaux (Activity 21)
"You'll Be In My Heart" VIDEO
by Phil Collins Tarzan Movie Soundtrack (Activity 18)
Monthly Materials List
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Fingerplay / Poems / Songs
Up Down Turn Around
(Activity 14 Month 8)
Up, down
Turn around.
Touch the sky,
And touch the ground.
Wiggle fingers
Wiggle toes
Wiggle shoulders
And say "hello"
Up, down
Turn around
Touch the sky,
And touch the ground.
Pat your belly
Blink your eyes,
Blow a kiss,
And say “good-bye “
I Need To Be Honest
(Activity 13 Month 8)
I need to be honest
My mom and dad say
And telling the truth
Is just one way!
Why be honest
I ask mom and dad.
You will feel your best
When the truth is always said.