What is being Learned Through Food Experiences? Growing your Curriculum

To explore some of the ways that learning through food experiences can benefit your child or children in your care visit the document below.  Just click on it and you will go to a detailed page with information.  I encourage you to share this with your parents too.  It may encourage them to get their children involved in cooking activities and increasing family time.

Learning Through Food Experiences

The following areas are explored:

• Early Math Skills
• Science Skills
• Language Skills
• Pre-Reading & Beginning Reading Skills
• Social Studies Skills
• Nutrition
• Food Literacy
• Art Skills
• Socio-Emotional Skills
• Sensory-Motor Skills

Food experiences also help build connections for Brain Development.

• Experience shapes the brains wiring
• Nutrition offers windows of learning in everyday activities
• Stimulates all of the senses:  seeing, touching, tasting, smelling, & hearing
• Forms new connections & strengthens old connections through language
• Repetition forms connections
• Healthy eating & exercise are important for brain development.

Eggs-actly the Books for Egg-ventures in Reading!

Cover of Good Egg

Open a book and open a new world for a child. Here’s some books that are great to get discussions going on eggs.

Infants and Toddlers
* Nursery Collection Books – Do You Like Green Eggs and Ham? by Dr. Seuss
* Humpty Dumpty by Salina Yoon
* Egg in the Hole by Richard Scarry

Older Toddlers
* Good Egg by Barney Saltzberg
* Scrambled Eggs Super by Dr. Seuss
* First the Egg by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
* Two Eggs Please by Sarah Weeks

Pre School and Older
* Horton Hatches the Egg by Dr. Seuss
* Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
* An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Aston
* The Emperor’s Egg by Martin Jenkins
* Out of the Egg by Tina Matthews

In your classroom plan activities including eggs that relate to every educational area: nutrition, science, math, reading, discovery center, music, art and various other centers. The possibilities are endless. Future posts will provide more ideas. Have an eggs-xiting week!