This week educators have planned to explore nutritious eating habits with children and while our wonderful menus are FULL of healthy choices for children we wanted to delve a little deeper…..
What story could we use? The Hungry Caterpillar shares with the children a food journey that’s a great starting point we also made our very own HUNGRY CATERPILLAR who wanted to be fed HEALTHY CHOICES every single day by the children.
How do we learn to LOVE fruits and vegetables??? We test our senses that’s how educators and children alike were trying various fruits and vegetables throughout the week and with some of our children never seeing WHOLE FRUITS the adventure was well underway.
Next, we began to cut and peel and smell our delicious fruits and vegetables from our FRUIT AND VEG SHOP enhancing our fine motor skills along the way. Enhancing our cognition we tested our memories with fruit and veg memory game
Do we appreciate the journey of fruit? Together with our educators and friends we began to discuss where fruit comes from before checking our MULBERRY TREE to check if we have ripe fruits…… soon real soon.
The children also explored live art using our FRUIT BOWL as the provocation to paint using bright fruity colours.
