We’re continuing to craft, color, read, and discuss food groups and nutrition. We plan on moving on to gardening, planting, seeds and the like soon. The tide is turning for the first half of the week to WARM!! So we’ll be spending (or at least the kids) a lot more time outdoors. Mom needs to play catch up on EVERYTHING!
To wrap up nutrition we’re finishing dairy and closing in on fruits and vegetables. We talked about common fruits and veggies, parts of the plant that we eat, that they are grown in gardens, on farms, can be obtained from farmers markets and grocery stores, they come from seeds, some seeds are edible, etc. We did fruit and veggie riddles, sang farm and dairy songs to familiar tunes, talked about where milk comes from, the types of animals, how dairy is packaged, and so on….
Accidental Learning–3 year old started counting clementine slices- Math, at breakfast on Sunday– this is my favorite kind of learning!
Audio book:
Dinosaurs before dawn by Osborne (Magic Tree House)
Mummy in the Morning by Osborne (Magic Tree House)
Reading Together:
The Magic School Bus Answers Questions by Schreiber — this is a great overview of elementary science
Lives and Times J.L. Kraft The Founder of Kraft Foods (biography for dairy unit)
Pizza Pat
Yogurt and Cheeses and Ice Cream that Pleases: What is in the Milk Group? by Cleary
Let’s Find Out About Ice Cream by Reid
St. Patrick’s Day Day of Irish Pride (this finally came in, the one I wanted them to have the most, go figure) by Preszler
If you were a PLUS SIGN by Shaskan
If you were a MINUS SIGN by Shaskan
Videos:
Gregory, The Terrible Eater by Sharmat (Reading Rainbow disc, with bonus visit to zoo, talking about what animals eat)
My Friends Tigger and Pooh Super Duper Super Sleuths –featuring gigantic veggies which we identified and talked about their properties
Agriculture for Children: From Farm To Table Schlessinger Media
Vrrrooommm 4- Citrus Farming for Kids
Fun on the Farm 2 (John Deere)
Abby Apple and her Fruit Friends by Snapatoonies
Learning Kits
How a Seed Grows Kit– 4 assorted soft flower pots showing various stages of bean plant growth + book
Activities:
Sort beans in ’15 bean soup’ bag by variety
Mix, scoop and decorate cookies like ‘Easter eggs’ (mom used the oven)
Compare seeds from different fruits and veggies (using magnifier, or feeling through package) and reading a seed packet
Learning about ‘hardy zone’ for our area through seed catalog, cut out favorite flowers/foods from seed catalogs
3 year old:
Coloring pages featuring vegetables
Color Easter page by number
Vegetable Garden of Healthy Choices coloring page
Growing strawberries, beans sequencing pages, counting and coloring veggies pages from My Plate
Tracing upper and lower case alphabet, line tracing
Reading together:
The Biggest Cookie in the World by Hayward (cookie monster)
I love you Good Night by Church
6 year old:
Coloring pages featuring vegetables: trace the names of the veggies & color
Color Easter page by addition problem/number
April calendar numbering
Color by sight word St. Pat’s
Vegetable Garden of Healthy Choices coloring page
Growing strawberries, beans sequencing pages, counting and coloring veggies pages from My Plate
Independent Reading
Hank Zipzer Niagara Falls, or Does It? by Winkler
The Angry Apple Orchard by Spenser
The Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Garden by Chase
The Littles Go Exploring by Peterson
The Adventures of Amelia Bedelia by Parish (3 books: Amelia Bedelia; Come Back, Amelia Bedelia; Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia)
The Great Cheese Conspiracy by Van Leeuwen
The Enchanted Schoolhouse by Sawyer
Silverlake Fairy School Unicorn Dreams by Lindsay
