Farm to Table

Hello!  I hope that everyone had a chance to look at the Art Show pictures last week.  I received many wonderful comments on the pictures.   The pictures are still at the preschool.  We will be handing them out to you in a few weeks.

This week, we will be learning about where our food comes from.  Watch and move to this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNL6RwymoNg&t=14s 

Think about what you had for breakfast this morning.  Where did that food come from?  I'm sure some of you are thinking that the food came from the grocery story such as HyVee or Walmart, and you would be right.  Do you know who the food got to the grocery store?  Most of the food that we eat is brought to the store from a farm.  Today's book is about how food gets from the farm to your table.

Story:  The book that I would like you to listen to today is Before We Eat: From Farm to Table by Pat Brisson.  Here is a link to the book.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TBfFOTNTmo  Have you ever been to a farm?  Perhaps some of you have relatives that live on a farm.   There are many kinds of farms that grow many types of food.  In order for us to stay healthy, we need to eat food from all of the different groups of foods.  Foods can be grouped into fruits and vegetables, proteins, grains, and dairy.

Sorting:  The foods that I would like you to work with today are fruits and vegetables.  These are foods grow in the ground or on plants.  Try to find pictures of fruits and vegetables in magazines, newspapers, advertisement fliers, or if you don't have any of these, your parents might be able find some on the computer.  Cut out these pictures (fine motor) and sort (cognitive skills) them into groups.  What ways can we sort them?  By color?  By shape?  By type?  Grown below the ground or above the ground?  How many groups did you make?

Alphabet Game:  This is a game that you can play with a grown-up or older brother or sister.  Name a letter of the alphabet and think of a fruit or vegetable that starts with that letter sound.  How many can you think of for each letter?  For example: A apple, asparagus, avocado, artichoke, etc.

Art:  Vegetable painting is something that we have done at preschool.  If you have the supplies (paint and paper), you could try this with the vegetables that you have at home.  Potatoes, carrots, peppers and celery make good stampers.  Cut them and dip them in paint.  If you have a bunch of celery, cut the bottom section off.  This is the part that you usually throw away.  Dip the whole thing into paint and stamp it on paper.  The print will look like a flower.

Sight words:   Parents, last week, I mentioned that at this time of year, I would begin to teach the children a few sight words.  I would do this to show them that all of the letters that we had learned could be put together to make words that they can read.  My sight word for today is "see".  Print it on paper and help your child think of sentences that you can write using this word.  I see the car.  I see the ball.

Here are the pictures that I received last week.  Thank you for sending them.  I miss everyone and love seeing the smiling faces!  I have submitted the t-shirt faces to Classical Graphics.  I was told it would take approximately 2 weeks for them to be finished.  I'll let you know as soon as they arrive!