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Summer Adventure! Topic: Sorting, Classification, Measurement and Money Theme: Fizzy’s Lunch Lab – Summer Treatwave Ages: 6-8 Powered by a Ready To Learn Grant Part 2: (continued) EXPLORE Sorting Ingredients Children will sort foods into groups and match them to different sections in the grocery store. Bring your children to a table or rug area where you can spread out and work on some handouts. Leader: There are many different kinds of foods in the grocery store and lots of ways to sort and group foods! Today we’re going to use these grocery maps. They look like the map Fizzy, Henry, and Avril were using. However, there is one big difference: this grocery store is organized by food groups. There are five sections in the grocery store, and you will have to figure out where to find each ingredient on the recipe cards that I’m going to give you. Divide the children into pairs and give each group of two a Going to the Grocery Store handout. Then give each pair of children the recipe cards for Awesome Orange Juice, Berry Boost Smoothie, Cranberry Lemonade and Milk and Honey Smoothie. Have them cut out the ingredients from the recipe card and paste or tape them to the correct section of the grocery store. When children are finished, give them an additional copy of the recipe card and ask them if they can think of any other way to group their ingredients—for example, by color, size, or temperature. When the children are finished working, have each pair share how they grouped their ingredients. Then use some of the groups that the children have come up with to give clues about the first ingredient in their healthy snack. For example, if you are planning on making honey milk smoothies, tell the children, “The first ingredient we’re going to use to make our snack is a fruit, and it’s also yellow.” Children should be able to guess the fruit (banana). Write it on your blackboard or whiteboard. Then congratulate the children on completing the first part of their Fizzy’s Lunch Lab – Summer Adventure, and tell them they will find out more about the other ingredients they will need the next time you meet. Keep Going! If you have more time, explore the following resources: READ Martha Speaks: Sunflower Biscuit Bones In this MARTHA SPEAKS interactive story, students learn about measuring ingredients and choosing the right baking temperature as they follow a recipe. When used as a part of Martha’s True Stories Buddies Program, buddy pairs engage with the interactive story, then talk and write their own recipes using examples of measuring from the story. WATCH Super WHY!: Alpha Pig’s Cake (3:10) Alpha Pig and his friends learn what the word “ingredient” means, and then use their letter recognition skills to find the right ingredients for Alpha Pig’s cake. 6
Summer Adventure! Topic: Sorting, Classification, Measurement and Money Theme: Fizzy’s Lunch Lab – Summer Treatwave Ages: 6-8 Powered by a Ready To Learn Grant Part 3: Taking Stock of the Pantry (1 hour, 15 minutes) PLAY Fizzy’s Lunch Lab: Pantry Hunt Corporal Cup needs help finding ingredients in the pantry. She can’t remember exactly where each one is, but will give clues using terms like “next to,” “above,” and “below” to help locate each one. Gather children at your computer or interactive whiteboard so everyone can see. Leader: Our challenge this week is to gather ingredients and make a nutritious snack. Last time we were together, we sorted ingredients into different food groups and learned about the first ingredient we’re going to use to make our healthy snack. Today, we’re going to look for some more ingredients in Corporal Cup’s pantry. Access the game with the sound muted so that the children can see the pantry items without hearing the directions. Ask the children to name each ingredient (blueberry jelly, canned tomatoes, etc.) and then ask them a few questions to assess their understanding of words and phrases like above, below, to the right of, and to the left of. For example: • Is the blueberry jelly above or below the canned tomatoes? • Which ingredient is above and to the right of the cereal? • Where are the crackers in relation to the strawberry jelly? When you are sure that the children understand the direction words, unmute the sound and click the “?” icon in the upper right of the screen to hear Corporal Cup explain the game. Then play as a group, calling on different children in each round to click on the correct ingredients. (If children are having trouble distinguishing between right and left, point out the r and l letters on the sides of the screen.) Once the children have demonstrated understanding the directions of the game, allow them to continue playing in small groups. (If they have trouble identifying the ingredients, point out that Corporal Cup will read the name of the food item when the cursor is moved to each item, so there is no need to guess.) As they play, rotate through the room and observe what the children are doing. Ask questions like: • Which ingredient is Corporal Cup looking for? • How do you know? EXPLORE Fizzy’s Lunch Lab: Pantry Search In this activity, children build a pantry that Corporal Cup would be proud of, and then continue practicing position and location words. Have the children work together in small groups to create a “pantry” using posterboard and magazine cutouts; (you can provide the magazine cutouts or the grocery flyers for the children to cut out themselves). Make sure that you include one cutout of an ingredient that will go into the healthy treat that the children will be making at the end of the week. As children are creating their pantries, emphasize the idea of choosing the healthy foods. You may also have children think about how they want to sort and organize their foods—for example, fruits and vegetables on one shelf, grains and pasta on another, and sweet treats on the top. 7
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