Felt Board Food

The felt board/pocket chart I received for Christmas came with a set of pictures and words all pertaining to a farm theme.  I pulled out the food words and pictures and made a quick reading activity for E.

I simply put the words in the pocket chart and added the pictures to the board on the top.  Then, I had E try and match the pictures to the words below.

He did a great job using first letter clues to figure out where everything went.

Sorting Food Groups

Today, I tried to explain to E that there are different food groups.  I used terms like different food families and he seemed to catch on somewhat.  That's what I thought until he later told his father that pie was a food group.

Nonetheless, we are continuing with the idea even if I simply succeed in making him aware that there are different groups of food and we need a bit of each in our meals everyday. 

I found a food group game (go figure) at a consignment sale a while back and decided to use the game pieces to make this tray.  We used my veggie platter to sort the pieces into different groups.  It helped that the pictures in each group had matching background colors.

We sorted them together and talked about the names of the groups as well as the foods within them.  We put the junk food in the middle and talked about how we should only have a little of these things and how they should be eaten after we have eaten from the other groups first or on special occasions.

Food Books

I went to the library this week in search of some books about food.  I wanted to find some fun books that were more than then pictures of food and descriptions of food groups.  These are a few of the fun books I found.

  

These are two books that E really liked.  The pictures are all of food made into very creative pictures.  We had fun reading them as well as trying to name what food each picture included.

This is a cute book with very simple text and pictures.

This book is a classic and for good reason.  Beyond the wonderful text and pictures, there are so many teaching points one can gather from it.  We have been reading it this week and I plan on exploring it further next week during tray time.

E is currently 35 months old.