Back into the healthy swing of things

This two day week has been a great time to cover fitness and nutrition after Halloween. We have been talking about making healthy choices and what kinds of foods are "sometimes foods" vs fruits and veggies a person can eat all the time.  

Monday, we had a mouth that ate unhealthy foods all the time and a mouth that ate healthy foods most of the time. The preschoolers were allowed to choose various food objects and had to decide what mouth would be more likely to eat that object.  For example, an orange would go into the healthy mouth and a cookie might go into the unhealthy mouth.

They loved talking about the foods and when they eat them and if they have tried certain food items as well.  

We got our exercise by playing a game where we chose a food item and sorted it by healthy or unhealthy.

At the end of the obstacle course they placed the food item in the correct bin as we checked for understanding. After each child went through the obstacle course, we counted the items and found out which bucket had more or less items in it.  

This week we practiced writing the word nutrition and heard the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle as the caterpillar ate healthy and unhealthy foods.

 

We made a watermelon project where the children took half a paper plate and colored the edge green then they had to add 10 black dots for the seeds so to the red paper and glue it on. They took great pleasure in asking teachers to check to make sure they had 10 seeds. 

 Another art project done this week was when we painted with celery. We cut apart some celery stalks and rubber banded them together then allowed them to dip them in red paint to make flowers out of the veggies.  They loved using something other than a paint brush to make artwork!  In early childhood education there are activities that deal with processes and other that deal with the end product.  This week, our products were the watermelons and the processes were the celery flowers.  More will be covered about these concepts in later blogs.

We ended the week by graphing the favorite type of apples in the class. Red apples won!
 This is a great math skill the children really enjoy doing.  Graphing is simple and can be done at home as well, cereal is the best tool because you can sort it and eat it.

What's Coming Up?

Remember there is no school on Monday due to Veteran's Day.

Next week we will be covering the favorite unit for the preschoolers: DISNEY!  Characters from movies, shows, books and more will be featured during our curricular activities.

Spring preschool registration will be coming at the end of November.  Keep looking for more information in future blogs.