Planning To Feed Me Lotto
To Know and Learn
Children will identify foods in each body building food group by playing the Planning To Feed Me Lotto game.
Materials Needed
Planning To Feed Me Lotto boards on pages 7-50--7-53
Planning To Feed Me Lotto cards on 7-54--7-57
scissors
crayons or felt tip markers
heavy paper or cardboard
paper squares or other markers
clear contact paper (optional)
Directions
A. To Make the Planning To Feed Me Lotto Boards
Make copies of the Planning To Feed Me Lotto boards on pages 7-50--7-53 for each child.
Color the foods on the Planning To Feed Me Lotto boards using crayons or felt tip markers.
Glue or tape the boards to heavy paper or cardboard. Trim any excess paper.
Cover with clear contact. paper to make the board more durable.
B. To Make the Planning To Feed Me Lotto cards
Color and cut out the Planning To Feed Me Lotto cards on pages 7-54--7-57. Cut along the dotted lines to separate the cards.
C. To Use the Planning To Feed Me Lotto game
Review the body building food groups with the children. Ask them to name foods found in each group.
Explain the Planning To Feed Me Lotto game to the children. Tell them that the object of the game is to cover all the squares on their board. A food picture on their Lotto board should be covered with a popcorn kernel, dried bean or paper square when the Planning To Feed Me Lotto card with that food picture is selected.
As each Planning To Feed Me Lotto card is selected, ask the children to name the food shown on the card and identify its food group.
When a child has all the squares covered, he or she wins that game. Ask the children to look at the winning Planning To Feed Me Lotto board and name each food that was covered and identify its food group.
Additional Planning To Feed Me Lotto boards and cards can be designed and used to make the game more exciting.
This lesson can also be used as an individual activity by allowing a child to match the Planning To Feed Me Lotto card with the square on the Planning To Feed Me Lotto board that has the same picture.
Food For Thought
Name one body building food group and ask the children to name foods
in that food group.
To Know and Learn
Children will practice selecting body building foods from the food groups by pretending to grocery shop at a classroom grocery store.
Materials Needed
empty food containers, packages and wrappers
shelves
basket, cart or grocery bag
paper
crayons or felt tip markers
tape or glue
food pictures (optional)
Directions
A. To Make the Classroom Grocery Store
Collect a wide variety of empty food containers, boxes, bottles, packages and wrappers. Be sure to include foods from all of the food groups including extra foods such as jams, jellies, candy, colas, honey and butter or margarine. Fruits and vegetables can be illustrated by food pictures, using the food picture cards from other activities or plastic food models.
Food items can be displayed on shelves, stacked on boxes or put on tables in one corner of the classroom.
Grocery bags, baskets, carts or wagons can be used as grocery carts.
B. To Use the Classroom Grocery Store
Review the importance of eating body building foods from the food groups with the children. Ask them to name foods from each of the food groups.
Ask the children to identify places where we get the foods we eat. Talk about the farm, country store, cafeteria, restaurant, school, friends or relatives and the grocery store. Have the children raise their hands to show that they have been grocery shopping.
Have the children walk through the classroom grocery store and choose foods they would like to eat for lunch. Ask the children to put the foods in the basket, cart or bag.
After the shopping has been completed, review each food item selected and name its food group. Decide whether all of the food groups were represented. Ask the children to answer the following:
Name each food item.
Identify the food group of each food item.
Were body building foods from each food group included in the shopping
selections? If not, how could the meal be improved?
Continually add new items to the classroom grocery store and allow the children to explore it at their leisure.
Food For Thought
Prepare a shopping basket with foods from only one food group and ask
the children to determine which food group is represented. Or, for more
advanced children, prepare a shopping basket that is missing foods from
one food group and ask the children to determine which food group is not
represented.
To Know and Learn
Children will begin to understand the concept of energy balance by listening to Plum Pan's Porridge Plan story and discussing it afterwards. Children will also practice listening and creative play skills.
Materials Needed
Plum Pan's Porridge Plan story on pages 7-36--7-37
food and character pictures on pages 7-58--7-59
flannel board, bulletin board, blackboard or wall
thumbtacks or tape
crayons or felt tip markers
scissors
Directions
Color and cut out the food and character pictures on pages 7-58--7-59.
Read Plum Pan's Porridge Plan on pages 7-36-- 7-37 to the children. Use the food and character pictures to illustrate the appropriate highlights of the story. The pictures can be attached to a flannel board, bulletin board, blackboard or wall with thumbtacks or tape. You may want to explain that oatmeal and porridge are very similar.
After the story has been read, ask the children the following questions:
Who is Plum Pan?
Where did Plum Pan get lost?
Was Plum Pan hungry when she was lost?
Where did Plum Pan look for food?
What did Plum Pan find in the first cave?
What did Plum Pan find in the second cave?
What does porridge look like?
What does porridge taste like?
What did Plum Pan eat?
How did Plum Pan feel when she ate the large bowl of porridge?
What happened to Plum Pan when she ate all the food and did not work
or play?
Did that happen when she ate just enough and went for a walk?
Whose porridge did Plum Pan eat?
Review the concept of energy balance with the children. Talk about how we need energy to fuel our bodies, but too much food combines with too little work or play causes us to gain unwanted weight. Tell them that we want to try to eat and exercise enough to grow taller and stronger.
Children could make oatmeal as an additional learning experience.
Food For Thought
Have the children act out the story describing how they feel when they
eat too much food and do not get enough exercise and how they feel when
they eat just enough and exercise.
Plum Pan is a little robot from Marshland.
One day Plum Pan got lost and wandered through the woods looking for food. She passed beautiful wild flowers and walked around a large tree trunk. Soon she came to a place where she found some strange looking caves.
Plum Pan stopped to look in the caves. She thought she might find food there. And she was so hungry. She peeked into one of the caves. She didn't she anyone there so she slowly walked inside. But, nothing was there. So, she left that cave and went to explore another one. She entered another cave and found a spotlessly clean kitchen and two bowls of oatmeal!
" "Yum," said Plum Pan, "I love oatmeal. It is light brown and tastes delicious. I would like to eat both of the bowls of oatmeal."
One of the bowls was very big and Plum Pan did not think she could eat all the oatmeal in that bowl. But she was so hungry! So she did. Ooooh, what a mistake! Plum Pan got a stomach ache. She laid down on the ground and eventually went to sleep. When she woke up she was surprised to find it was hard for her to move around. She had gained weight.
"Too much food and not enough work or play," sighed Plum Pan. I'd better be careful or I may gain too much weight."
So Plum Pan went for a walk. She walked and walked and walked. Plum Pan walked so far she was hungry again. She decided to go back to the cave and eat the smaller bowl or oatmeal.
"Mmm," said Plum Pan. "This oatmeal tastes good and it is just enough for me. I'm not hungry anymore and I haven't had too much to eat."
Just at that moment Plum Pan heard noises in the cave. "Grrrow!, I am hungry Baby Bear," came the voice in the cave. "Grrrow!, I am hungry too Pappa Bear," came another voice in the cave. "I am glad I left those bowls of oatmeal on the table."
Plum Pan cried, "Oooh-nooo!" and was so scared that she ran right out
of the cave and into the woods. "It's a good thing I ate just enough food
and not too much food," said Plum Pan as she ran through the woods. "Otherwise
I would not be able to run so fast! I did not see any bears in that cave,"
thought Plum Pan. "I did not know they were there. And, I ate the bear's
oatmeal!" Plum Pan could not wait to get home and tell her friends she
ate oatmeal that belonged to bears.
To Know and Learn
By making a Balancing Act Mural, children will demonstrate that they understand the need to balance food intake with work or play.
Materials Needed
paper
glue. tape or thumbtacks
bulletin board, blackboard or wall
crayons or felt tip marker
food and activity pictures (optional, food pictures can be taken from
other lessons or cut out of magazines, newspapers, seed catalogs or grocery
store advertisements)
Directions
Review the concept of energy balance with the children. Talk about the need to balance food intake with work and play activities. Ask the children to give examples of body building foods they eat. Have them name different ways we use energy (for example, swallowing, breathing, eating, running, jumping or playing). Point out that too much work or play and too little food will make us lose weight, but too little work and play and too much food will make us gain unwanted weight.
Make a Balancing Act Mural by having the children draw or cut out pictures of their favorite body building foods and work and play activities.
After they have finished drawing or cutting out the pictures, glue, tape or thumbtack them to a mural titled, "The Balancing Act."
Ask the children to identify the body building foods and work or play activities displayed on the mural.
Pictures that the children draw can also be used to make a mobile.
The concepts taught in this lesson may be too complex for many preschool children.
The following books can be used to further explore the need to balance exercise and eating:
Yummers! (J. Marshall, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1973).
Please Don't Feed Horace (M. Young, The Dial Press, New York, 1961).
Winnie-The-Pooh Meets Gopher (A. Milne, Westem Publishing, New York, 1972).
Eat! (D. Paterson, The Dial Press, New York, 1975).
The Fattest Bear In First Grade (B. Robinson, Random House, New York, 1969).
Winnie-The-Pooh: A Tight Squeeze (A. Milne, Golden Press, Wisconson, 1976).
Gustav The Gourmet Giant (L. Gaeddert, The Dial Press, New York, 1976).
Food For Thought
Ask the children to name examples of work and play activities and some
body building foods they eat. Ask them to give reasons why we need to eat
body building foods (for energy to work and play and to grow bigger and
stronger and to stay healthy).
To Know and Learn
Children will practice grouping foods by making food group reminder cards and a bulletin board.
Materials Needed
paper
crayons, felt tip markers or paint
glue, tape or thumbtacks
bulletin board, blackboard or wall
food pictures (optional, pictures from magazines, newspapers, seed
catalogs or grocery store advertisements can be used)
Directions
Review why we need to eat foods from each of the body building food groups everyday. Discuss foods that are found in each of the food groups. Ask the children why we need to eat foods from each of the body building food groups (so that we can grow big and strong and be healthy).
Have the children draw or paint pictures of them selves eating from the food groups each day. Place these drawings on a bulletin board, blackboard or wall. Title the drawings, "I Eat Five Every Day."
Have the children make reminder cards that they can take home to show others that they know eating foods from each of the food groups every day is important. Write at the top of each child's card, "I need to eat fruits and vegetables every day" (or milk and dairy foods; or meat, fish, poultry, eggs, dried peas and beans; or bread and cereal foods). The children can decorate the reminder cards with pictures of foods that they drew or they can cut them out of seed catalogs, magazines, newspapers or grocery store advertisements as desired.
Food For Thought
Ask the children to name a food from each body building food group.