Thursday 4 July 2013

YUMMY ....YUMMY

                              
 

Learning about fruits is one of the interest lessons among the kids. Eat fruits to stay healthy is the idea behind this lesson.
LEARNING OUTCOMES




Students will:-
  • identify the names of fruits
  • learn which fruits grow on a tree, on a vine, or in the ground.
  • describe each fruit by its physical attributes
  • understand that  the fruits are the part of a healthy diet, supplying essential vitamins and minerals that all we need.

        We do many activities for a week to enhance the knowledge on this topic
  • Select 10 common fruits                
 















 
                      
  • Arrange samples of those fruits (Real, Plastic or cut outs of fruits) to introduce each fruit.

     
  • Ask kids, the name of each food, discuss the physical attributes of each (color, shape, texture, taste, etc.), and discuss how each fruit grows (on a tree, on a vine, and in the ground)

LANGUAGE

· Let kids learn to recognize the fruit’s names using flash cards .These flash cards are mend to teach kids how the words are written and how the fruits look
MATHEMATICS

  
  • Ask the Kids what their favourite fruit is. Create a chart that shows everyone’s favourite. Then count what the most favourite fruit is. Hang the chart on the wall.
SCIENCE
  • Provide kids with different types of fruits. Some examples are Mango, watermelon, apple, and grapes, and ask to sort out them as one seed, few seeds or many seeds.


 
COLOURING
  • Teach about colours of the fruits with colouring pages (Red Apples, Bananas are yellow in colour)
MUSIC
  • Sing a song for each fruit. (Thanks for Rhyme4Kids, These songs are easy to sing)
CRAFTS
·         Fruit Print- Kids use fruits to create prints. They dip fruits into paint and stamp them onto paper in random or ordered patterns
·         Fruit paper collage
·         Fingerprint fruits
 
*       Kids wear hats decorated with plastic fruits
                         
                         
                 
                    
EATING TOGETHER

FRUIT SALAD



  • Kids can bring one favourite to make fruit salad 
  • Encourage kids to smell, touch and describe the qualities of each one
  • Teacher mixes all into a delicious fruit salad and kids got a taste of a variety of fruits
                                              
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  • Cut up fresh fruit slices for kids to have as a snack
 
           
  • Kids learn that the importance of washing fruits before eating and care to be taken while cutting them
 
  *  Fruit market is other activity can do as a dramatic play
  
  *  A visit to the supermarket: Supermarkets carry a wide range of fruits as well as fruit products. The kids will realize that these fruit products can be in different forms: Fresh, frozen and dried and store in different manner. Purchase some fruit products and give a chance to taste them. The Kids will understand that there are several fruit products, all of which can contribute to making a healthy diet.



      * One of my colleagues made these fruit carvings, just for a display.
 
                
 







 





           (Thank you so much for lovely images in flickr and wikimedia commons, all credit goes to photographers)
 




 

2 comments:

  1. hai thee..first time hereand a very useful blog you have got. esp fro me, as a mother to 3 little boys. stay connected !

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  2. Thanks Sona,Pls keep in touch

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