We started the week off with a KWL chart in the shape of big carrots on "Being Healthy". Apparently, Hayden is a nutrition genius because he already "knows a lot about nutrition". He was great about telling me what he already knows, but couldn't tell me anything that he'd like to know about. I had to feed him some good questions that he liked the sound of - such as "what is a fruit?" or "why is water good for your body?" etc. And, of course, when I attempted to complete the What We Learned part of the KWL chart, his responses came back like this: "Milk is good for your bones and teeth." (This was good, BUT....) "Carrots are good for you." "Apples are good for you." "Fruit is good for you." And so on and so forth. I decided I needed to help him come up with some more unique answers. So, that will be my focus next week.
Here are a few photos with descriptions showing what we did this week on nutrition:
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| The boys identified, sorted, and classified foods by healthy vs. junk food. |
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| Somehow, all the healthy stuff ended up in front of Sawyer, and all the junk accumulated in front of Hayden. Hmmmm....... |
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| Food Bingo! |
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| Sawyer got hungry looking at all those pictures of good food. |
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| Estimation/Measurement activity with play corn from their kitchen. We picked several items to measure around the room. Hayden estimated the amount first (and was not bad at his guessing!). Then we measured with the corn, and he recorded the information down on a piece of paper. |
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| Healthy Food Collage |
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| Rhyming Food Game Here, the boys had several food cards that they had to match with a rhyming word card that was NOT a food. Ex: spaghetti - confetti, steak - rake |
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| Juicy Apple Connect-the-Dots. The dots were labeled Aa to Zz. |
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| Then they cut apart the words and had to unscramble them to make the sentence, "This is a juicy apple." |
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| Fruit Kabob Patterns This we did after estimating, counting, and naming several types of fruit from the fridge. I think we may have done this activity before earlier in the year. |
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| As you can see from Sawyer's kabob pattern, it probably wouldn't hurt to do this even more. He refused to do a pattern, and insisted on just putting as many as he could on his skewer. |
The goal each day was to write one sentence on nutrition that had been learned that day, and by the end of the week, we'd have a little book in the shape of an apple to show for it with a sentence on each page. Well, we got one sentence done. So, we'll try to continue that next week.
However, we continued our Flash Fluency Cards, and Hayden advanced to the 4th card of Level 1, and he completed another emergent reader with very little mistakes. So, he's now read a total of 3 books on his own! Yay! In addition to that, he did a much better job on his spelling test this week. Last week, he got 2 out of 8 words correct. This week, he got 6 out of 10. Some of those words were the same as last week's. I plan on putting any words he misses on the next week's test to help him get those down.
One new activity I gave Hayden to do this week to help with his spelling was Paint Stick Sight Words. I found it through Pinterest. This website is the bomb! What a great way to find things that interest you and get your imaginative juices flowing! I've found some awesome ideas from other teachers and moms through pinterest, as well as just fun stuff to do with the kids or in the kitchen or crafty stuff.....the list goes on!
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| Paint Stick/Clothespin Sight Word Activity The sight word is written on the paint stick in capital letters. He had to find the lowercase letters on the clothespins and attach them. Then he had to say the word and write it down. |
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