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I^anguage Activities

Food Colors

Skills: Color Recognition, Brainstorming, Classilication of Foods by Color Activity:

GatÅ‚ier one piece ofeach color conslruclion paper. Tape each piece to the wali or chalkboard. Have the children focus on one color at a time and brainstorm all of the foods they can think of that are that color. Write each food on the construction paper as the children dictate. Allow the children to add to any of the lists if they think of morÄ™ foods. When the lists are finished, allow the children to help you count to see which color has the most foods listed and which has the fewest.

From Seeds to Salads

Skills: Describing Events, Logical Thought, Composing Sentences Activity:

Gather the children and tell them that you would like them to think about how salads are madÄ™. Explain that you want the class to work as a group to create a detailed list of the steps that occur in the creation of a salad. Encourage the children to begin the list with a step that includes the planting or growing of the ingredienls. Their steps should detail how the ingredients reach the food preparer. The last step of the list should be the actual making of the salad. As the children dictate all of the steps, write

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