Food-Healthy vs. Unhealthy

The book we will be reading is called, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.

We will then discuss which food is healthy and which ones are not. We will sort food with healthy and non-healthy categories. We have pictures we will be using but plastic food would work great as well!

The kids will take turns finding food that have been hidden around the classroom. Once they find one they will say if it is healthy or unhealthy then they will toss it in the correct basket (tossing helps with their eye-hand coordination).

For snack today we will be making our own pretzels! We will use Rhodes bread dough. Each child will get a thawed ball of dough, they will be able to roll it and shape it any way. Then we will bake it and after it's baked they can spread butter on the tops and enjoy it! (To better keep track of who's pretzel is who's, place tin foil on the cookie sheet and write each child's names on it with a permanent marker then place their pretzel next to their names).

For art today we will be painting a fish. We will use karo syrup, sugar and food coloring mixed together. These combined will give the fish a shiny, scaley texture!