Meet Your Vegetables

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I designed this unit as a fun introduction to healthy foods. Taking an integrated approach, students become familiar with vegetables through art, music and cooking. While the nutritional aspects are inherent, my goal is to help students become more aware of where the food comes from and to become more familiar and comfortable with vegetables and fruits.

OBJECTIVE

Students will:

1. Gain the knowledge and skills to select a diet that supports health and reduces the risk of illness and future chronic diseases.  ~ Massachusetts Health Curriculum Framework

2. Identify a variety of fruits and vegetables and how they are grown and harvested.

3. Identify the connection between food served in the home with regional food production.  ~ Massachusetts Health Curriculum Framework

LESSONS FOR THIS UNIT
Lesson 1: Vegetable Faces: A Guiseppe Archimboldo Portrait Study
Lesson 2: Vegetable Soup: A Reverse Recipe
Lesson 3: In My Garden Sing Along

REPRODUCIBLES
Vegetable Request Letter for Parents (PDF)
Lyrics for In My Garden Sing-Along (PDF)
Classroom Newsletter to Send Home (PDF)

SUPPORTING BOOKS

Books for An Apple A Day Unit Plan

Jeremy Brunaccioni is a kindergarten teacher in Massachusetts.

ARTICLE	7 Great Snacks for a Housebound Day: Quick Click 7 snacks to feed your kids when you're snowed in. Make these snacks out of ingredients left in your refrigerator. Snacks include peanut butter-flies made of peanut butter and pretzels.
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