Learning Center Ideas Use these center activities to continue children’s independent learning about the foods we like.
Cooking Center Classroom Cookbook
Music and Movement Popcorn People Provide photos of food, cars, and school supplies. Invite children to play the popcorn game. One child shows photos one-by-one as the others crouch down, like small kernels of popcorn. When the children see a photo of food, they should “pop up” like popcorn!
Invite children to make a book of favorite foods. Make available pictures of food from magazines or old recipe books. Provide construction paper, scissors, glue, and markers. On the top half of the paper, have
children draw or paste pictures of foods they like. On the bottom half of the paper, help children label
their favorite food. Bind the favorites foods together to make a class cookbook.
Math Center Sorting Fruits and Veggies
Classroom Library Extend the theme by adding related books and media to your classroom library. • The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle • Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak (Weston Woods Book with Audio) • Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey (Weston Woods Book with Audio) • Let’s Eat/A comer (English or Spanish) by Ana Zamorano • How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? by Jane Yolen (Weston Woods Video)
Provide pictures of fruits and vegetables and pieces of red and yellow paper. To strengthen children’s math and sorting skills, invite them to work together to find fruits and place them on the red paper, and find vegetables and place them on the yellow paper. Extension idea: Gather jars containing food items that are pleasant to smell (cinnamon and chocolate) and some that are not (pepper). Place a paper with “like” and “dislike” columns under each jar. Invite children to make a tally mark to show how they feel about each smell. Encourage children to describe the different smells. You may wish to transcribe their descriptions onto the tally papers and display them.
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