Our cooking projects this month helped us explore our food groups and our gardens.  The children discussed what foods we have in the gardens and learned about their food groups.  We discussed where foods come from and let the children make their own food combinations. The children loved getting messy and eating and trying new and fresh foods.  Up next is food group soup!

As we all know children love to make noise and music time at GRP is a very exciting.  The children met our new music teacher Miss Carlin and were excited to start learning.  Miss Carlin taught the concept of rhythm using The Name Game song, rhythm chorus, rhythm sticks, and stay movement.

The children were very excited to meet Miss Heidi.  Miss Heidi talked about where Germany is and started introducing some of the linguist nuances that exist between German and English.  The children were in stiches to learn that some words sound and even look the same in both English and German.  Some words are very different and have sounds that are hard to make.   The children learned colors and the names for some house hold objects.  Ex: rug, mug, clock and so on.

For cooking this week we made face pizzas.  The children also picked and then dehydrated raspberries from our garden.

This week we started introducing signs in play and basic need signs.  bathroom, eat, and so on.  Next week we will continue to work on memorizing the ABC’s.  the ASL’s ABC’s contain many of the basic handshapes that are used for other signs.

We extended the learning of our forced bulbs.  The children made a project the had each of the parts of the plant,  Using microscopes and magnifying glasses we examined our plants.  The children compared the plants size, shape, and color.

This month we are learning about our farms and where our foods come from.  The children learn about some of our major farm industries in the US, dairy, and agriculture.  Followed by some of our major local farming industries apple, tulip and mushroom farms.

We have outdoor sensory space. Our mud kitchen, our water and sand table and our garden prep table.

This weeks cooking project was Pizzas.  We extended the learning in three different ways.  We made paper shape pizzas.  During lunch we read “Little Red Hen Makes A Pizza”, and “Sally’s Pizzeria”.  During circle time we read “Pete’s A Pizza” and reenacted it by making Miss Cheryl and the students into a pizzas.

Here are three things we have made with children. Children need to see how meals are made. Explore their food in fun way for children to learn healthy habits. Cooking is as much an art as painting or drawing.