Getting Started
This week, children eat root and leaf vegetables as they continue to explore the idea that many of the foods we eat come from plants. Children will:
- Explore, taste, and compare root and leaf vegetables
- Describe vegetables using sensory descriptive words
- Listen to the read-aloud book The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin in which a girl and her mother grow a garden full of Chinese vegetables, to be introduced to the idea of growing one’s own food
- Revisit Chicks and Salsa by Aaron Reynolds and the Between the Lions video of the story about farm animals that make new foods using plants from the farm’s garden
- Be introduced to the letter “Vv,” the letter sound /v/, and the word vegetable