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Keystone Color Me Healthy Supplemental Activities and Resources

Revised 2015

The Supplemental Activities and Resources Guide (SAR) can be downloaded in its entirety from the Keystone Kids Go! website. Please note that this is a large file and may take a

longer amount of time to download.

The Keystone Kids Go! website contains newsletters, professional development opportunities, information on Pennsylvania initiatives that focus on children’s wellness,

websites, and much, much more!

Please visit the site to learn more at:

www.keystonekidsgo.org

www.keystonekidsgo.org

Keystone Color Me Healthy is part of the PA Department of Health: Keystone Kids Go! initiative. Keystone Color Me Healthy has been made possible through funding and support from:

Commonwealth LibrariesEarly Childhood Education Linkage System (ECELS)

First UpNational Black Child Development Institute (Philadelphia Affiliate Chapter)

Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL)Penn State Better Kid Care

Pennsylvania Head Start Association (PHSA)Pennsylvania Nutrition Education Network (PANEN)

Pennsylvania Migrant Education ProgramPhiladelphia Department of Public Health

Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC)The Food Trust

The Pennsylvania KeyTuscarora Intermediate Unit

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Division of Community HealthWoman, Infants, and Children (WIC)

The activities and resources in this supplement were supported in part by the U.S. Department of Education. The opinions expressed herein, however, do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the U.S. Department of Education or the Pennsylvania Department of Education and no official endorsement of these agencies should be inferred.

KEYSTONE COLOR ME HEALTHY PARTNERS

Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………. 1

Keystone Color Me Healthy Connections: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards and National Head Start

Performance Standards ………………………………………………………….. 2 I Am Moving, I Am Learning and Pennsylvania Early Learning Keys to

Quality: Keystone STARS ………………….……………………………………. 3 Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards Crosswalk ………..…………………. 4

What Children Learn When They Cook? ………………………….………………… 5

Small Group and Food Experience Activities Singing and Dancing with Color Me Healthy ………………………………... 8 Eat a Rainbow of Colors ………………………………………………………. 10 Where Can We Be Physically Active? ……………………………………….. 12 Try New Foods …………………………………………………………………. 14 I Can Feel My Heart Beat ……………………………………………………... 16 Brown Paper Bag Mystery …………………………………………………….. 18 Snack Attack ……………………………………………………………………. 22 Instead of Watching TV I Could ………………………………………………. 24 It’s Milking Time ………………………………………………………………… 26 Where Do The Colors Grow? ………………………………………………… 28 Activity Alphabet ……………………………………………………………….. 30 Imaginary Trips ………………………………………………………………… 32 Imaginary Trips Tips …………………………………………………………… 34

Keystone Kids Go Active! Activity Cards ………………………………………… 35

Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child ……………………………………. 64

Bibliography ..…………………………………………………………………………. 65

Seasonal Family Activity Guides ...………………………………………………… 125

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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The Supplemental Activities and Resources manual was developed to help early childhood practitioners implement the Keystone Color Me Healthy program. The Keystone Color Me Healthy program was designed to help early childhood practitioners improve the nutrition and physical activity of preschool aged children.1

In this manual, you will find…

Details on how Keystone Color Me Healthy relates to the Pennsylvania EarlyLearning Standards, National Head Start Performance Standards, I Am Moving, IAm Learning and Pennsylvania Early Learning Keys to Quality: KeystoneSTARS

Family Newsletters

Information on what children learn when they are involved in food experiences

Activities to supplement each Color Me Healthy Circle Time lesson includingsmall group and food experience activities

Activities to assist in planning quality movement experiences

Information on the Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child program

Information on the PA NAP SACC Continuous Quality Improvement Process (CQI)

Bibliography of children’s literature related to nutrition and physical activity

And more!

For the most updated information on this publication and Keystone Color Me Healthy, visit the Keystone Kids Go! website at: www.keystonekidsgo.org.

Thank you to everyone involved in the Keystone Color Me Healthy project and their efforts to reduce childhood obesity. A special thanks to Deb Trulock of Luzerne County Community College, Cynthia Malinen, Barbara Fernsler, Kevin Alvarnaz and Jennifer Kenny of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Julie Haines from Penn State University and Ginny Streckewald formerly of the Office of Child Development and Early Learning for their contribution to the activities included in this manual. Also thanks to Susan Pannebaker from the Department of Education: Office of Commonwealth Libraries and Maria Marvin of the Penn State University: Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy for their contributions to the bibliography section.

1 Keystone Color Me Healthy is based on the Color Me Healthy program developed by the North Carolina Division of Public Health and North Carolina Cooperative Extension.

INTRODUCTION

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Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards – Pre-Kindergarten Early childhood practitioners can integrate the Keystone Color Me Healthy activities into their existing early childhood curriculum to address Pennsylvania’s Early Learning Standards in all of the following categories:

Approaches to Learning Through Play Creative Thinking and Expression Language and Literacy

Development Mathematical Thinking and

Expression Social and Emotional Development

Health, Wellness and Physical Development

Partnerships for Learning Scientific Thinking and Technology Social Studies Thinking

Many practitioners make use of Keystone Color Me Healthy activities to address the following Pre-Kindergarten Health, Wellness and Physical Development Standards including:

10.1 – Concepts of Health 10.2 – Healthful Living 10.3 – Safety and Injury Prevention 10.4 – Physical Activity: Gross Motor Coordination 10.5 – Concepts, Principles and Strategies of Movement: Fine Motor Coordination

Additional connections to Pennsylvania’s Pre-Kindergarten Early Learning Standards are referenced in each of the small group and food experience activities found in this manual. Early childhood practitioners may want to adapt these activities for use with younger or older children. The Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for infants, toddlers and kindergarteners are available on the Pennsylvania Keys website http://www.pakeys.org/pages/get.aspx?page=Career_Standards

National Head Start Performance Standards Head Start programs will find the Keystone Color Me Healthy materials an excellent resource for addressing a number of National Head Start Performance Standards including:

1304.21 (c(l)(i)) Integrate all educational aspects of the child’s health, nutrition

and mental health services into program activities. 1304.23 (b)(l) Grantee and delegate agencies must design and implement a

nutrition program that meets the nutritional needs and feeding requirements of each child, including those with special dietary needs and children with disabilities. Also, the nutrition program must serve a variety of foods which consider cultural and ethnic preferences and which broaden the child’s food experience.

1304.24 (c)(7) As developmentally appropriate, opportunity is provided for the involvement of children in food related activities.

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I Am Moving, I Am Learning I Am Moving, I Am Learning provides Head Start programs with specific strategies and resources for integrating intentional, facilitated movement and healthy nutrition choices into daily classroom routines. I Am Moving, I Am Learning is multidisciplinary approach developed by Dr. Linda Carson, Director of the West Virginia Motor Development Center, WV University and is research-based and developmentally appropriate. Amy Requa, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Head Start Region III TA Health Specialist, points out that I Am Moving, I Am Learning and Keystone Color Me Healthy work well together and both can be integrated with the existing curriculum to enhance experiences for young children.

Early childhood practitioners can use Keystone Color Me Healthy materials to support the three goals of I Am Moving, I Am Learning:

Increase the quantity of time spent in moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) during the daily routine to meet national guidelines for physical activity

Improve the quality of structured movement experiences intentionally facilitated by teachers and adults

Improve healthy nutrition choices for children every day Movement Vocabulary is an important component of I Am Moving, I Am Learning. To help you expand children’s movement vocabulary, each Keystone Kids Go Active! Activity Card includes a section with key words that describe movement actions and concepts.

Pennsylvania Early Learning Keys to Quality: Keystone STARS Early childhood practitioners employed by a Keystone STARS program can attend a Keystone Color Me Healthy workshop to fulfill professional development requirements in Health and Safety as they work toward a STAR 3 or 4 designation.

Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards Crosswalk

Color Me Healthy activities can effectively be included throughout your curriculum. Many of the activities are easily adapted to meet a variety of Key Learning Areas. The following chart may serve as a starting point to explore just some of the ways that activities from the Color Me Healthy Teacher’s Guide align with the Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards:

Approaches to Learning Through Play

Creative Thinking and Expression

Language and Literacy Development

Mathematical Thinking and Expression

Social and Emotional Development

Health, Wellness and Physical Development

Scientific Thinking

Social Studies Thinking

Partnerships for Learning

Circle Times: Singing & Dancing with CMH

AL.2 PK.A 1.5 PK.C 10.4 PK.B

Eat a Rainbow of Colors AL.1 PK.A 9.1.V PK.E 3.1 PK A.9 Where Can We Be Physically Active?

AL.2 PK.C

1.5 PK.B

16.2 PK.C

3.1 PK A.9

Try New Foods AL.3 PK.B 1.5 PK.A 2.4 PK A.4 16.2 PK.A 10.1 PK.C I Can Feel My Heart Beat AL.1 PK.B 9.1D PK.E 1.5 PK.A 2.4 PK.mp 16.2 PK.C 10.1 PK.C 3.2 PK A.3

Brown Paper Bag Mystery AL.1 PK.A 1.5 PK.A 10.1 PK.C 3.1 PK A.9 Color Yourself Healthy AL.4 PK.A 9.1 VPK.B 1.5 PK.C 16.2 PK.A 10.1 PK.C Snack Attack AL.1 PK.B 1.5 PK.B 16.2 PK.C 3.1 PK A.9 Instead of Watching TV I Could….

AL.1 PK.A 1.5 PK.A 3.2 PK.B

It’s Milking Time AL.1 PK.C 10.1 PK.C 4.4 PK.D 6.3 PK.D Where Do the Colors Grow?

AL.1 PK.A 1.5 PK.B 3.1 PK B.6

Activity Alphabet AL.4 PK.C 1.1 PK.B 3.1 PK A.9 Imaginary Trips AL.2 PK.C 1.2. PK.F Color Your Classroom: CMH Bulletin Board Ideas AL.3 PK.C 9.1 VPK.B 1.4 PK.M 16.2 PK.C 10.1 PK.C PL.3 CMH Connects Home & School

PL.3

Fruit and Vegetable Garland

AL.2 PK.C 9.1 VPK.E 1.2 PK.B 16.2 PK.A 10.1 PK.C

A Cool Idea PL.1 Fruit & Vegetable Twister AL.1 PK.C 1.5 PK.A 16.2 PK.C 10.4 PK.B Color Me Healthy Clock 2.4 A.4 Color Me Healthy Brag 9.1 VPK.E 16.2 PK.C PL.3

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Math: 1. Measuring--tablespoon, teaspoon, cup 2. Counting 3. Measurements--dozen, pound, weight 4. Oven temperatures 5. Sequencing--recipe directions 6. Classifying foods--food groups, colors, shape

Science and Discovery: 1. Planting and how all things grow 2. Solids to liquids, liquids to solids 3. Hot and cold 4. Sense awareness - development of a sense of smell,

taste, touch, sight and hearing 5. Nutrition awareness 6. Food changes during cooking

Language Arts: 1. Listening skills--following a recipe 2. Sequential learning--repeating recipe steps in order 3. Dictating a recipe to the teacher and watching it being written down 4. Letter recognition--isolating letters in a recipe 5. Word recognition--isolating words in a recipe 6. Adjective growth--increase of descriptive terms 7. Formation of a cookbook 8. Dictating stories about favorite foods, least favorite foods 9. Following directions

Creative Dramatics and Music: 1. Role playing--parents' cooking role, children's role, restaurant visit, role

modeling cooking or restaurant with peers 2. Dancing--get the feel of the ingredient and act it out 3. Making up or learning songs about the ingredients 4. Practicing rhythms--stirring and kneading 5. Learning new sounds

WHAT DO CHILDREN LEARN WHEN THEY COOK?1

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Social Studies: 1. Learning about the different ways the same food is made

in different states or countries 2. Learning about food from different cultures--the discovery

of new tastes, food and other lands 3. Learning how to work together, share and cooperate 4. Learning how to plan with one another 5. Learning about community helpers who provide food for us to buy and eat

Art: 1. Making a food collage 2. Drawing pictures of the food prepared 3. Illustrating a recipe 4. Observing color, texture and form 5. Molding food into sculptures--candy, cookies and bread dough 6. Photographing—documenting the progress of making foods for a cookbook

Physical Activity: 1. Learning new fine motor skills--knead, roll, stir, mashing, pouring 2. Experiencing new smells, textures, sounds and tastes

1Head Start Nutrition Education Curriculum

Small Group Activities Food Experience Activities

Note… These activities directly correlate with the Color Me Healthy Circle Time activities and are intended to expand the themes. The “Featured Book” is merely a suggested book that can be used to introduce the topic. Please feel free to omit the book or make substitutions as appropriate.

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SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY: Knick Knack Paddy Wack… Move Your Bones

FEATURED BOOK: Dancing in My Bones by Sylvia Andrews

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Health, Wellness and Physical Development: 10.1 PK.B, 10.2 PK.A, 10.4 PK.A, 10.4 PK.B Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.B, AL.2PK.A

MATERIALS NEEDED: None

ACTION: Discuss the following while encouraging the children to participate.

1. What helps you stand up straight and move around? (The bones in your back… we call them vertebrae)

a. Reach up to the sky b. Bend over and touch your toes c. Stand on your tip-toes

2. What helps you run and jump? (The bones in your legs and feet) a. March in place b. Hop around

3. What helps keep your lungs and heart safe? (The bones in your chest… we call them ribs)

a. Tap on your chest b. Tickle your ribs

4. What helps keep your brain safe? (The bones in your head… we call it the skull)

a. Knock on your head 5. Now imagine that your bones are made from JELL-O. How does that make

you feel? Mention to the children the importance of weight bearing activities (hopping and jumping) and that they need to do them every day to build strong bones. What things do they like to do that could help build strong bones?

Source: PA Department of Health Osteoporosis Program

Note… Some wonderful weight bearing connections can be found in Penn State Cooperative Extension, Nutrition in Every Theme: I Am Growing. This publication can be accessed at: http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/freepubs/pdfs/ue005.pdf

SINGING AND DANCING WITH COLOR ME HEALTHY

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FOOD EXPERIENCE: “Bone” Builder Sundae

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Health, Wellness and Physical Development: 10.1 PK.B, 10.2 PK.A, 10.5 PK.B, 10.5 PK.C Language and Literacy Development: 1.2 PK.F, 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.B

Social and Emotional Development: 16.1 PK.B, 16.2 PK.A

MATERIALS NEEDED: 1. Low fat yogurt, flavor of your choice 2. Fruit, cleaned and cut into small pieces 3. Granola or almonds

ACTION: Engage the children in the following discussion about calcium and dairy foods as they make the “Bone” Builder Sundae.

1. Did you know that you can help your bones grow strong by eating 3 calcium rich foods every day?

2. What foods do you think have calcium? (dairy foods: milk, yogurt and cheese and some vegetables like spinach and broccoli and some orange juice)

3. What kinds of dairy foods do you like to eat every day? 4. Wash hands. 5. Spoon yogurt into a cup. 6. Choose 4 pieces of cut-up fruit and place on top of yogurt. 7. Sprinkle granola or almonds, if desired, on top of fruit. 8. Enjoy the “Bone” Builder Sundae.

Source: PA Department of Health Osteoporosis Program

Note… Please take into consideration your program’s policy on using nuts, dairy, dyes or wheat or any known allergies.

SINGING AND DANCING WITH COLOR ME HEALTHY

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SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY: Somewhere Under the Rainbow

FEATURED BOOK: Lunch by Denise Fleming

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Scientific Thinking: 3.1 PK A.9, 3.2 PK.B.6, 3.2 PK.B7, 3.3 PK A.4 Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A Creative Thinking and Expression: 9.1.V PK.E

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Clear glass jar, medium sized 2. Water 3. Window sill with bright sunlight 4. White paper 5. Watercolor paints or crayons

ACTION:

1. Fill clear glass jar with water to the top. 2. Set jar on window sill in bright sunlight. Jar should stick out over the ledge

just a little bit. 3. Place a piece of white paper on the floor in front of the window (tape two or

three pieces to form a poster size and obtain a bigger rainbow image). 4. A rainbow will be captured/reflected on the paper. This will greatly depend

on how bright the sunlight is and the positioning of the glass jar, so move the jar side to side on the window sill to help the process until you see the rainbow reflected on the paper.

5. Quickly draw lines to capture the rainbow and children can paint directly on the paper on the floor as the rainbow is reflected there.

Source: Adapted from http://www.first-school.ws/activities/science/rainbow- experiment.htm

EAT A RAINBOW OF COLORS

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FOOD EXPERIENCE: Rainbow Toast

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Creative Thinking and Expression: 9 . 1 V P K . B Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.B, AL.1 PK.C Social and Emotional Development: 16.2 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. 7 containers 2. 1 cup of milk 3. Food coloring 4. Bread 5. Clean paintbrushes 6. Toaster 7. Favorite spread for toast or cream cheese

ACTION:

1. Wash hands. 2. Put several tablespoons of milk into each of the seven containers. 3. Have the children help add food coloring to the milk to create a rainbow of

colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet). 4. Paint rainbows on the bread using the milk paint. 5. Toast bread in the toaster on light setting. 6. Spread toast with your favorite spread or try whipped cream cheese tinted in

a rainbow of colors. 7. Enjoy and talk about the colors in a rainbow.

Source: Adapted from a variety of sources


EAT A RAINBOW OF COLORS

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SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY: Peek-a-Boo Beach Towel

FEATURED BOOK: Lottie’s New Beach Towel by Petra Mathers

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Scientific Thinking: 3.1 PK A.9 Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.B, AL.2 PK.C Social and Emotional Development: 16.2 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Beach towel 2. Assortment of 5-10 items (baby doll, shoe, ball, cup, cereal box, etc.)

ACTION:

1. Depending on the level of the children, you may want to preview the objects that will be hidden.

2. Have the children close their eyes while you hide one of the objects. 3. Once hidden, have the children open their eyes and guess what the hidden

object is based on the shape. Discuss how they came to that conclusion. 4. Reveal the item and discuss. 5. Repeat with the remaining objects.

Source: Adapted from What’s Under the Towel? Mister Rogers’ Plan and Play Book, © 1983, Family Communications, Inc.

Note… Another fun activity would be to create an obstacle course where children would have to jump from towel to towel to escape the hot sand like Lottie did in the story.

WHERE CAN WE BE PHYSICALLY ACTIVE?

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FOOD EXPERIENCE: “Under the Sea” Snack

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Scientific Thinking: 3.1 PK A.9, 3.2 PK A.3 Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.B, AL.3 PK.B

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Goldfish crackers 2. Box of blue JELL-O 3. Clear plastic cups

ACTION:

1. Wash hands. 2. Mix JELL-O according to package directions. This will most likely need to

be done beforehand. 3. Put several goldfish into a clear cup. 4. Fill with blue JELL-O and refrigerate until set. 5. Enjoy and discuss the “creation.”

Source: Adapted from a variety of websites


WHERE CAN WE BE PHYSICALLY ACTIVE?

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SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY: Taste, Test and Tell Graph

FEATURED BOOK: Yoko by Rosemary Wells

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Mathematical Thinking and Expression: 2.4 PK.A.4, 2.4 PK.MP Health, Wellness and Physical Development: 10.1 PK.C Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1PK.B, AL 3 PK.B Social and Emotional Development: 16.2 PK.A, 16.2 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Assortment of 3-5 “new” foods from the same food group, for example: pomegranate, star fruit, papaya, kiwi, plantain, etc.

2. Graph outline containing those foods 3. Stickers

ACTION:

1. Have the children sample each of the foods one by one and discuss what they thought of each.

2. Encourage the children to place a sticker on the graph, above the corresponding food if they liked it.

3. At the end of the activity, discuss the graph and which were the most popular of the foods. Involve the children in counting the stickers for each.

Source: Adapted from Penn State Cooperative Extension, Nutrition in Every Theme: Butterflies. This publication can be accessed at: http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/freepubs/pdfs/ue004.pdf

TRY NEW FOODS

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FOOD EXPERIENCE: Banana Sushi

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.B, AL.4 PK.A Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C Health, Wellness and Physical Development: 10.1 PK.C Social and Emotional Development: 16.2 PK.A, 16.2 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Whole Wheat bread, crusts removed 2. Bananas, cleaned 3. Spread (peanut butter, cashew butter, jelly, or alternatives for children with nut

allergies: apple butter or sunflower butter) 4. Rolling pin 5. Butter knives

ACTION:

1. Wash hands. 2. Lay two bread slices down, slightly overlapping. 3. Using a rolling pin, gently flatten the slices of bread and press them together

at the seam. 4. Spread the selected “spread” over the bread. Peel and lay a whole banana

in the middle. Carefully roll up to make a “log.” 5. Slice each log into 6 pieces. 6. Enjoy and talk about how real sushi is made.

Source: Adapted from www.rachelrayshow.com


TRY NEW FOODS

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SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY: The Beat of Our Heart

FEATURED BOOK: Hear Your Heart by Paul Showers

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.B, AL.2 PK.D, AL.2 PK.E Creative Thinking and Expression: 9.1 D PK.E Scientific Thinking: 3.2 PK B.5, 3.1 PK A.9 Health, Wellness and Physical Development: 10.1 PK.B, 10.2 PK.A Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C Social and Emotional Development: 16.2 PK.A, 16.2 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Stethoscope 2. Doctor’s office props 3. Drumsticks 4. Wooden blocks

ACTION:

1. Talk about what happens when you visit a doctor’s office. Use the doctor props to assist you in doing so. Talk about how the doctor listens to your heart. What does it sound like? How does the stethoscope feel against your skin?

2. Using the stethoscope, have the children listen to their heart beat or another child’s. Discuss.

3. Have the children clap their hands together to mimic the sound of a heart beating. Boomp-pah, Boomp-pah. It makes a pattern.

4. Have the children use drumsticks with wooden blocks to mimic the sound.

INVOLVING YOUR COMMUNITY

To assist with this activity, you may want to contact:

School nurse Local doctor County Health Department

Medical or Nursing students from local colleges

Source: Unknown

I CAN FEEL MY HEART BEAT

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FOOD EXPERIENCE: Heart Healthy Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.B, AL.2 PK.B Mathematical Thinking: 2.4 PK.MP Scientific Thinking: 3.2 PK A.3 Health, Wellness and Physical Development: 10 .1 PK .C Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C Social and Emotional Development: 16.2 PK.A, 16.2 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. 1 1/4 cups quick cooking oats 2. 1 cup all-purpose flour 3. 1/3 cup white sugar 4. 1 tablespoon baking powder 5. 1/2 teaspoon salt 6. 1 cup milk 7. 1 egg 8. 1/4 cup vegetable oil (applesauce can be substituted to lower fat content) 9. 1 cup blueberries, rinsed and drained 10. Mixing bowl 11. Measuring cups and spoons 12. Muffin tins 13. Muffin liners

ACTION:

1. Wash hands. 2. Combine oats, flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. 3. Mix in milk, egg, and oil; mix just until dry ingredients are moistened. 4. Fold in blueberries. 5. Fill muffin liners 2/3 full with batter. 6. Bake at 425 degrees F (220 degrees C) for 20 to 25 minutes. 7. Enjoy and discuss how oatmeal and blueberries are heart healthy foods.

Source: www.allrecipes.com


I CAN FEEL MY HEART BEAT

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SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY: I Spy Bottle

FEATURED BOOK: The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear by Audrey Wood

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.B, AL.2 PK.B Scientific Thinking: 3.1 PK A.9 Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C Social and Emotional Development: 16.2 PK.A, 16.2 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Clear, clean soda bottles with lids 2. Assortment of small objects varying in size, shape and color 3. Filling material (bird seed, sand, etc.) 4. Affixing material (hot glue gun, clear duct tape, etc.) 5. Funnel

ACTION:

1. Using the funnel, pour some “filling” material into the bottle. 2. Place a few objects in the bottle. Cover the top and shake. 3. Continue by alternately adding “filling” material and objects until the bottle is

approximately ¾ of the way full. 4. Screw on the top and adult should permanently affix the top. 5. If desired, you could generate a “key” of what objects to find

Source: Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11: Even Start

BROWN PAPER BAG MYSTERY

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FOOD EXPERIENCE: Strawberry Mash

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.B, AL.2 PK.B, AL.4 PK.A Scientific Thinking: 3.1 PK A.9 Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Ziploc baggies 2. Strawberries, cleaned and caped 3. Sugar, optional 4. Accompanying food (pancakes, shortcake, milk, etc.)

ACTION:

1. Wash hands. 2. Place several strawberries in a zip lock bag. 3. If strawberries have any sourness, add a teaspoon or two of sugar 4. Zip the bag closed. 5. Gently mash the strawberries with fingers, palms or fists. 6. Open the bag and pour the mash over pancakes, shortcake or even into

milk.

Source: Adapted from www.kid-rockit.com


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SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY: Thinking Outside “The Box”

FEATURED BOOK: Not a Box by Antoinette Portis

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.C, AL.3 PK.B Creative Thinking and Expression: 9.1V PK.B Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C Social and Emotional Development: 16.1 PK.B, 16.2 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Assortment of cardboard milk cartons (pint and quart size), clean and dry 2. Scissors 3. Assortment of objects (straws, cotton balls, paper, paper towel rolls, etc.) 4. Crayons or markers

ACTION:

1. Engage the children in a discussion about how sometimes we all see something different. We are all “creative.”

2. Allow the children “free range” to take a box and create something. 3. After the children have finished their creation, discuss what they made.

Source: Unknown

Note… Another great “box” activity you can do is to use an interesting lightweight box to create a puzzle. Cereal boxes work great. Simply cut one side out. Draw the outline of a jigsaw puzzle and cut it out. The pieces can be stored in a Ziploc baggie. The children will enjoy putting this homemade puzzle back together.

COLOR YOURSELF HEALTHY

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FOOD EXPERIENCE: Thinking Outside “The Box” Snack

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.B, AL.3. PK.B, AL.4 PK.A Health, Wellness and Physical Development: 10.1 PK.C Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C Social and Emotional Development: 16.2 PK.A, 16.2 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Boxed pizza crust mix and ingredients needed to prepare 2. Jar of pizza sauce 3. Shredded mozzarella 4. Assortment of colorful vegetables, washed and cut 5. Rolling pin 6. Cookie sheet or pizza pan

ACTION:

1. Wash hands. 2. Prepare the pizza crust mix as directed on the box. The children will enjoy

kneading the dough and can even be involved in rolling it out. 3. Spread on the pizza sauce. 4. Sprinkle on the mozzarella cheese. 5. Sprinkle on an assortment of colored vegetables. 6. Bake for time mentioned on the box. 7. Enjoy and discuss the process and the colorful and healthy toppings.

Source: Variety of sources


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SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY: Name That Snack

FEATURED BOOK: Mouse Went Out to Get a Snack by Lyn Rossiter McFarland

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.B, AL.2 PK.C, AL.3 PK.C Scientific Thinking: 3.1 PK A.9 Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C Social and Emotional Development: 16.2 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Clean, empty dishwashing liquid bottles 2. Assortment of children’s favorite foods (those that have a stronger scent) or

flavor extracts 3. Aluminum foil

ACTION:

1. Place each food in a dishwashing liquid bottle. If the food can be seen through the container, cover with foil. Open the nozzle.

2. Holding upright, the children are to squeeze each bottle and sniff at the nozzle. Encourage them to identify the food.

3. An extension would be for them to draw a picture of what food they smell.

Source: SUM Head Start, Mifflin County

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FOOD EXPERIENCE: A Snack Fit for a Mouse

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.4 PK.A Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C Social and Emotional Development: 16.2 PK.A, 16.2 PK.C, 16.3 PK.A

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Assortment of crackers 2. Assortment of cheese

ACTION:

1. Provide children with the assortment of crackers and cheese. They can select which ones they would like to have. They could make a cracker sandwich, put a slice of cheese on top of a cracker or eat the cracker and cheese separately.

2. Enjoy the cheese and crackers as you discuss the differences in how people eat them and which cracker and cheese everyone likes best.

Source: Unknown


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SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY: Take a Listening Walk

FEATURED BOOK: The Listening Walk by Paul Showers

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A Scientific Thinking: 3.1 PK A.9, 3.2 PK B.5 Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. 8-10 non-transparent containers with lids (film canisters work nicely) 2. Assortment of small objects to put inside the container (paper clips, cereal,

small pebbles, sand, beads, cotton ball, etc.)

ACTION:

1. Fill each container with a different object. Make sure that most of the contents make noise when shaken. It is fun to add one that does not, for example, a cotton ball.

2. Give the children the containers, have them shake them and try to identify the contents. Discuss.

3. When finished, open up each container to reveal the mystery objects. Discuss.

Source: Tuscarora Intermediate Unit: Even Start

INSTEAD OF WATCHING TV, I COULD…

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FOOD EXPERIENCE: Snap, Crackle, POP!

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A Scientific Thinking: 3.1 PK.9, 3.2 PK B.5 Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Box of Rice Krispies cereal 2. Milk 3. Sugar, if desired 4. Scoop or measuring cup 5. Bowls 6. Spoons

ACTION:

1. Wash hands. 2. Have the children scoop a desired amount of Rice Krispies into their bowl.

Have them listen to the cereal and discuss what they hear. 3. The children can then pour milk over their cereal. Once again, have them

listen to their cereal to see what they hear. 4. Enjoy the snack and discuss the findings.

Source: Unknown


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SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY: What Comes From Dairy Cows?

FEATURED BOOK: Milk: From Cow to Carton by Aliki

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.B, AL.1 PK.C Scientific Thinking: 4.4 PK.A Social Studies Thinking: 6.3 PK.D Health, Wellness and Physical Development: 10.1 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Assortment of dairy product containers, for example: butter, milk, cheese, yogurt and ice cream

2. Assortment of other food products or containers, for example: pretzels, apple, cookie, macaroni, beans and cereal

3. Bag (to disguise the food items)

ACTION: 1. Engage the children in a discussion about where food comes from. 2. Turn the discussion to the topic of cows and introduce the game… “What

Comes From Dairy Cows?” 3. Randomly pull the foods or containers from the bag one by one. If the

children believe the item to be a dairy product, they are to “moo.” If it is not a dairy product, they are to say “no.” After each item, talk a little about its origin.

Source: Deb Trulock, Luzerne County Community College

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FOOD EXPERIENCE: Miss Muffet’s Curds and Whey Salad

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.B Health, Wellness and Physical Development: 10.1 PK.C Language and Literacy Development: 1.2 PK.K, 1.3 PK.B, 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Lettuce (tuffet), 1 leaf per child 2. Cottage cheese (curds and whey), 1/3 cup per child 3. Raisins (spider), 1 raisin per child 4. Measuring cup 5. Plates

ACTION:

1. Have children wash lettuce under cold water and shake off the drops of water. Place 1 lettuce leaf on a plate.

2. Scoop 1/3 cup of cottage cheese on top of the lettuce. 3. Finally, put a “spider” on the curds and whey. 4. Enjoy while discussing the words tuffet, curds and whey. Compare the

snack to the nursery rhyme.

Source: Adapted from Mother Goose Cookbook, work-in-progress, © 1998, Gloria T. Delamar


IT’S MILKING TIME

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SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY: Do Plants Eat? An Experiment

FEATURED BOOK: Up, Down and Around by Katherine Ayers

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1.PK.A Scientific Thinking: 3.1 PK A.1, 3.1 PK A.5, 3.1 PK A.2, 3.1 PK A.9, 3.1 PK B.6 Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Approximately 2” of water in a clear container 2. Food coloring 3. Celery stalks, with leaves attached 4. Knife, used only by an adult

ACTION:

1. Engage the children in a discussion about if plants eat, and if so, what? 2. Cut a celery stalk near the bottom. Reveal and discuss the “veins” in the

stalk. Talk about how it is these veins that pull food up to the plant from the ground. Just like we pull milk up from a straw.

3. Add some food coloring to the water in the clear container. 4. Put the celery stalk into the water. Allow to sit for a few hours. 5. Revisit the celery and discuss observations. 6. Cut the celery stalk in half and look at the veins. Discuss.

Source: Adapted from Mister Rogers’ Plan and Play Book, © 1983, Family Communications, Inc.

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FOOD EXPERIENCE: Veggies and “Ranchosaurus” Dip

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A Scientific Thinking: 4.4 PK.C Health, Wellness and Physical Development: 10.2 PK.A, 10.5 PK.B, 10.5 PK.C Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C Social and Emotional Development: 16.2 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. A variety of vegetables that are root, stem, flower or leaf, washed and prepared for snack

2. ½ cup light mayonnaise 3. ½ cup light sour cream or low-fat yogurt 4. ½ teaspoon dried chives 5. ½ teaspoon dried parsley 6. ¼ teaspoon garlic powder 7. ¼ teaspoon onion powder 8. Dash of salt and pepper 9. Mixing bowl and spoons

ACTION:

1. Wash hands. 2. Add mayonnaise and sour cream to the bowl. Mix well. 3. Add spices. Mix well. 4. Shake in salt and pepper. Mix. 5. Serve with vegetables. 6. As you enjoy the snack, discuss the origins of the vegetables.

Source: This activity was adapted from Penn State Cooperative Extension, Nutrition in Every Theme: Dinosaurs. This publication can be accessed at: http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/freepubs/pdfs/ue003.pdf


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SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY: ABC Rubbings

FEATURED BOOK: Animal Action ABC by Karen Pandell

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.B, AL.2 PK.C, AL.4 PK.C Scientific Thinking: 9.1 PK.E Language and Literacy Development: 1.1 PK.B, 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Alphabet letters made from cardstock or cardboard 2. White paper 3. Crayons with paper removed

ACTION:

1. Discuss the letters of the alphabet. Show the children the cardboard letters. 2. Have the children close their eyes and give each a letter to feel. Can they

guess what letter it is? 3. Have the children close their eyes while you “hide” a letter under their

paper. 4. The children can turn the crayons sideways and rub over the paper to reveal

the letter. 5. Discuss what letter appeared.

Source: Adapted from Letter Rubbings. Mister Rogers’ Plan and Play Book, © 1983, Family Communications, Inc.

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FOOD EXPERIENCE: ABC Pretzels

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.3 PK.C, AL.3 PK.B Creative Thinking and Expression: 9.1 PK.E Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Package of refrigerated bread dough or homemade bread recipe and ingredients

2. Cookie sheet

ACTION:

1. Wash hands. 2. Give each child a piece of bread dough and have them roll it out like a

snake. 3. Form the snake into the letter of your choice. 4. Put on cookie sheet and bake. 5. Enjoy and discuss all the different letters the children made and their

significance.

Source: Adapted from a variety of sources


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SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY: B-b-b-b-b Bear Hunt

FEATURED BOOK: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.B, AL.1 PK.C, AL.2 PK.C Language and Literacy Development: 1.1 PK.D, 1.2 PK.F, AL.1 PK.A, AL.1 PK.B, AL.1 PK.C, AL.2 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. Construction paper bear with the letter “B” on it 2. Assortment of items or pictures, some beginning with the /b/ sound and

some not 3. Bags

ACTION:

1. Discuss the letter B and the /b/ sound. Talk about words that begin with the /b/ sound.

2. Give each child a bag of items or pictures and a “B” bear. 3. Each child is to look in their bag and find items that begin with the /b/ sound.

They are to place those items on their bear. 4. When the children are finished discuss what everyone found. Talk about

the items in reference to the /b/ sound. 5. Another option would be to have the children move about the room and find

objects that begin with the /b/ sound.


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FOOD EXPERIENCE: Yummy Bear Paws

LINKING LEARNING TO THE STANDARDS: Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Early Childhood: Pre-Kindergarten Approaches to Learning Through Play: AL.1 PK.A, AL.4 PK.A, AL.1.PK.C Language and Literacy Development: 1.5 PK.A, 1.5 PK.B, 1.5 PK.C

MATERIALS NEEDED:

1. 1 can ready-made biscuits 2. Butter 3. Cinnamon sugar 4. Almond slivers 5. Cookie sheet 6. Butter knife

ACTION:

1. Have children separate the biscuits. After separated, they can spread butter on the top and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.

2. Bake the biscuits according to the package directions. 3. After biscuits have cooled, have children poke 5 almond slivers into the side

of the biscuit to make a yummy bear paw. 4. The yummy bear paws can be eaten at the end of a meal or as a snack.

When eating, be sure to recall and discuss the cooking experience with the children.



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Thoughts on Developmentally Appropriate Practice

These trips are designed to capture children’s interest and get them moving.

They are to be used to enhance children’s movement, vocabulary and creative thinking.

In order to accomplish these objectives, consider the following when implementing these activities with children:

Be open and allow children to be creative.

Before starting the trip, ask children what they think will happen. (For example:

“Today, we are going to take a trip to the beach. What do you think we will do, or see, or find?”)

Let children show you how to do the actions rather than showing them how.

Remember, children may have various approaches.

Allow children to alter the trip. Don’t feel like you have to follow the narrative exactly.

Stop narrating and let the children tell you:

o What they see o What will happen next o How they feel

Remember this is an activity where the children can use their creativity if we

allow them to! ☺

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Keystone Kids Go! Physical Activity Cards

Updated January 2015

Keystone Kids Go! was created by the Pennsylvania Departments of

Health, Education, and Human Services, in partnership with:

Tuscarora Intermediate Unit

Penn State Cooperative Extension

Pennsylvania Family Literacy Programs

Pennsylvania Nutrition Education Network

Head Start State Collaboration Office

Visit us on the web at http://panen.org/keystone-kids-go

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2 B

Play MovementVocabulary

Jack Be Nimble Jumps Props– cones, foam noodles, or cardboard blocks

Prep- Read the story/rhyme Jack Be Nimble.

Early Learning Standards

Language & Approaches to Math Physical- Literacy Learning Health

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9 Ask the children to act out the story by jumping over the “candlesticks” without knocking them down.

9 As the child jumps, sing the rhyme and insert his or her name.

9 Jumping

Extended Play: Instruct the children to crawl, skip, run, hop, etc., weaving between and/or over props as you sing the rhyme. Make the “candlesticks” higher and higher asking the children to jump over them again. Ask the children how many jumps, hops or skips it took to go over the candlesticks.

Source: Iowa Cooperative Extension

3 B


Bodies in Motion Props- None

Prep- None


Approaches to Physical- Learning Health


9 Encourage the children to respond to the following action rhyme:

Our bodies are made of special parts WAVE your arms (child's name) SHAKE a leg... NOD your head... And TOUCH your chest to feel your heart

STAMP your feet (child’s name) SNAP your fingers… RUB your belly... And WIGGLE your toes… Now stand very tall and TOUCH your nose

9 Waving

9 Shaking

9 Nodding

9 Touching

9 Stamping

9 Snapping

9 Rubbing

9 Wiggling

Source: Kansas Nutrition Network & Kansas State Department of Education, Power Panther Preschool Guide

Creative Expression

4 B


Math

Count Your Kicks Props– large balls such as beach balls

Prep- Scatter the balls throughout the playing area.


Approaches to Physical- Learning Health


9 Give the children a time limit, such as one minute, and have them count how many times they kick the ball in that time period.

9 Call time and then have them repeat.

9 Counting

9 Kicking

9 Hopping

Extended Play: Substitute hopping for kicking. Have the children work in pairs with one counting while the other kicks or hops.


5 B


Help Your Neighbor

Props– beanbags

Prep- None


Approaches to Physical- Social Learning Health Emotional


9 Each child moves around the room with a beanbag on his/her head. If the beanbag should fall off, he/she must “freeze.” He/she cannot move until someone can pick up the beanbag and place it on his head. Keep encouraging the children to “help their neighbor” and praise them when they do it.

9 Moving

9 Freezing

9 Balancing


On My Island Props– something that will help the children identify their own personal space such as hoops, carpet squares, masking tape squares, jump ropes laid to form a circle

Prep- Have a personal space for each child.


Approaches Physical- Social to Learning Health Emotional


6 B


Ask the children to step inside the space.

Ask the children to imagine that this is like having theirown room or island.

Challenge the children to move around their space indifferent ways such as crawling, hopping, or skipping.

Ask them to use the space to show you concepts likeinside, outside, beside, around, and under. Note: It is important for children to look for differentways to do something and to learn to respectdifferences and the space of others.

Crawling

Hopping

Skipping


Math

Musical Space Sharing Props– lively music and something that will help the children identify their own personal space such as hoops, carpet squares, masking tape squares, jump ropes laid to form a circle

Prep- Arrange the spaces on the floor with two less than the number of children. You will need plenty of space for this activity.


Approaches Language & Physical- Social to Learning Literacy Health Emotional


7 B


Have the children count the number of spaces outloud.

Play music and have children march or take big steps,take little steps, hop, skip, etc. around the spaces. When the music stops, children must share the spaceinside the spaces. That might mean they step into thespace, or put one foot or one hand in the space. Havethe children tell you how many spaces there are. Note: Children can be creative when discovering howthey will share the space with each other. No one sitsout, everyone moves, and everyone wins by beingcooperative.

Marching

Freezing

Balancing

Extended Play: Use different colors of construction paper to designate spaces and play a “Twister” like game.


8 B


Harvest Time Props– various vegetables and fruits, books about how fruits and vegetables grow, or gardening in general

Prep- None


Approaches to Creative Language & Health Learning Expression Literacy


9 Have children pretend to dig for potatoes; pull carrots out of the ground; pick okra, tomatoes or blueberries from bushes; and climb to pick apples, cherries, and peaches.

9 Give each child the opportunity to name a fruit or vegetable and lead the group in how to harvest that food.

Extended Play: Have children pretend to harvest things from high (apples) or low (cucumber) places or heavy (pumpkins) or light (berries) items. Tape fruit or vegetable picture cards on the provider or child. Pretend to be the food from planting to harvest with the others “covering them with dirt” or “pulling them from the ground,” etc.

9 Digging

9 Pulling

9 Picking

9 Climbing

9 High

9 Low

9 Heavy

9 Light

Source: Penn State Cooperative Extension

Science

9 B

Snakes in the Garden Props– large pictures of fruits or vegetables (1 per child), 2 straw hats, crepe paper streamers, tape

Prep- Cut large pictures of vegetables from magazines, grocery inserts, or seed catalogs.


Approaches Creative Physical- to Learning Expression Health


9 Designate two children to be gardeners and give themeach a straw hat to wear.

9 Tape a picture on the front of the remaining children.Tape a streamer to each child’s ankle except for the gardeners. Make sure everyone knows the names of vegetables used in the activity.

9 Line up in two lines facing each other with thegardeners in the middle. The children are the snakes, trying to eat the vegetables in the garden. Call out “GO!” The children try to pass the gardeners while the gardeners try to step on the streamers. If a child’s streamer gets stepped on, have him pretend to be the vegetable on his shirt. Continue to play the game until the garden is full of beautiful vegetables. Then appoint new gardeners.

9 Running

9 Crawling

9 Stamping


Play Movement Vocabulary

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Hello Beans Props– one bag of dry bean soup mix Prep- Glue one of each kind of bean found in the mix to a 3” x 5” index card. Use a different card for each bean. Read a book about beans. Place about one tablespoon of the dry bean mix on the table for each child. Show children one bean at a time. Ask them to raise their hands if they have that kind of bean in their mix. Have the children help count the number of different beans in the mix.

Ask these questions: Do you know that a bean is a vegetable seed? Pick up one of the beans. Is it hard or soft? How do you think we can make it soft? (soaking it in water). We have to make the beans soft before we can eat them. What foods have beans in them? (soup, baked bean, chili, etc.) Have you ever heard of a jumping bean? Remind the children NOT TO EAT the beans.



9 Encourage the children to learn the chant. Instruct thechildren to jump up and down while saying or listening to the chant.

9 Chant:Norma Jean the jumping bean, She could jump forever it seems. She jumped so high she touched the sky. And didn’t come down until the Fourth of July!

9 Jumping

Source: Kansas Nutrition Network & Kansas State Department of Education, Power Panther Preschool Guide (slightly adapted)

Language & Literacy

Approaches to Learning

Physical- Health

Science

Balloon Toss (Age 3 and above)

Props– rubber punch ball balloon (made of latex or a heavier rubber than standard balloons) for each child with large rubber band discarded

Prep– Mark the boundaries for where the children can and cannot move for this activity.


Approaches Math Language &

to Learning Literacy


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MovementVocabulary

Play 9 Hold the balloon out in front of you with one hand on eachside of the balloon.

9 Lower the balloon below your waist so that the balloon almosttouches your knees.

9 Raise both hands into the air and let go of the balloon as itpasses your nose.

9 Throw the balloon straight up into the air.

Watch the balloon as it begins to come down.

9 When the balloon floats down in front of you, wrap bothhands around the balloon and catch it.

Throwing

Catching

Bouncing

Extended Play: Variations could include: dropping the balloon, letting it bounce and catching it throwing it high into the air, letting it bounce and catching it throwing the balloon into the air and seeing how many timesyou can clap your hands before catching it throwing the balloon high against a wall and catching it

Source: www.pecentral.com

Physical- Health

12 B

Groundhog Day

Props– hoops or poly spots, drum to signal stop and go

Prep– Place hoops or poly spots on floor. Secure with tape.


Approaches Language & Physical- Science

to Learning Literacy Health


9 Explain to the children the background of GroundhogDay. Instruct them that they will be the “groundhogs.” The hoops or spots are the groundhog “holes.”

At the first sound of the drum, the children willmove about in the general space.

When the drum is struck, the children will freeze. The teacher will announce “Winter!” or “Spring!”

If “winter,” the children will pretend to see theirshadows and go back and hide in the holes. If“spring,” the children will continue to move slowlyuntil the drum is sounded again.

Extended Play: To enhance movement, children can be directed to perform a variety of locomotor skills, such as hopping, skipping, jumping, crawling, or tiptoeing throughout the space.


9 Hopping

9 Skipping

9 Crawling

9 Jumping

9 Tiptoeing


Jump the River

Props– jump rope, hoop, or tape lines on the floor

Prep– Provide at least one object to jump over per child. Before beginning the activity, scatter the jump ropes or hoops throughout the space so that they lay flat on the floor.


Approaches Language Physical- to Learning Literacy Health


Play 9 Explain to the children that they are taking a walk through the woods and

may need to cross a stream or a river. Ask the children to walk throughout the space and when they come to a river (a jump rope, hoop, or tape on the floor) they need to jump over it without getting their feet wet.

9 Special direction should be given for the children to take off on both feet,

swinging their arms forward when they jump.

9 When landing, the children should land on both feet spread apart at shoulder’s width so that they land in a balanced position without falling.

9 Jumping

9 Swinging

9 Balancing

9 For safety reasons, children should not get closer that two giant steps from each other, especially when they are swinging their arms for takeoff and landing.

9 After 3-5 minutes of jumping, the children may need a brief rest period

(30-60 seconds) before continuing the activity. Extended Play:

Children can be asked how high and how far they can jump when going over the river.

More experienced children may enjoy the challenge of clapping their hands when jumping over the river, but emphasis should alwaysbe placed on landing in a balanced position.

Children can draw or paint their own rivers to be used.

Teachers may also choose to integrate this idea with a book they read to the children about rivers or travel.

Variations in movement can include taking off on one foot and jumping to another.


Movement Vocabulary

Creative Expression

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Math

Shape Shifters

Props– laminated colored shapes, music and player (CD, tape, etc.)

Prep– Laminate different colored shapes that are 8-10 inches in size.


Approaches Language & Physical- to Learning Literacy Health


14 B


9 Place the colored shapes on the floor.

9 Play music while the children walk around the differentshapes. Shapes may need to be taped down to prevent slipping.

Ask, “Who is standing on a square, circle, triangle, etc.?”

Curved

9 When the music stops, have the children move toward ashape and stand on it.

Straight

Galloping

Extended Play: Ask the children to change their movements bywalking backward or in a curved pathway. Another variation would include different types ofmovement, like galloping or skipping.


15 B

Exploring Pathways

Props– ribbon sticks and carpet squares or some other item that would define personal space, music and player (CD, tape, etc.)

Prep– None


Approaches Physical- to Learning Health

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9 Use carpet squares for children to stand on so they areevenly spaced throughout the room and do not get into each other’s space.

9 Ask the children to hold their sticks tightly as they move theirribbons throughout the space in front of them according to the following directions:

Wipers—Children move their hands and arms from left to right inthe motion of a windshield wiper as the ribbons flow back andforth in a curved pathway.

Circles—Children move the ribbon sticks in circles in front of theirbodies, then at their sides, and over their heads.

Floor sweeps—Children pretend they are sweeping the floor bymoving the stick from side to side on the floor in front of them.

Extended Play: Play music of various tempos while the children do the

motions—adjust movement speed accordingly. Provide 2 ribbon sticks per child and encourage them to

use both hands for motions.

9 Squiggle

9 Sweeping

9 Curved

9 Throwing

9 Zigzag



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Paper Bag Derby

Props– one paper grocery bag per child

Prep– None




9 Arrange the children on the paper bags on tile or grass(a slick surface) in small groups.

9 Instruct the children to start their engines by making anengine noise.

9 When you say “the race is on,” the children scoot themselves around the designated race track on their paper bags while holding the sides of the bags and pushing or pulling with their feet.

9 If the children become too bunched up, use your hand asthe caution flag and restart the race.

9 Racing

9 Scooting

9 Sliding

9 Pushing

9 Pulling

9 Everyone wins each time they go around the track andback to their starting place.


Turtle and Rabbit

Props– None

Prep– None


Approaches Language Physical- to Learning & Literacy Health


17 B


Arrange the children in a scatter formation. Explain to the children that turtles move slowly and rabbitsmove fast. Ask the children to move slowly. Once they have demon-strated slowly, ask them to demonstrate fast.

9 Call out “turtle” or “rabbit.” When you say “turtle,” thechildren move slowly and continuously until you say “rabbit.” When you say “rabbit,” the children move fastuntil you say “turtle.”

Extended Play: You may want to introduce this activity or combineit with reading the story of The Tortoise and theHare. Children can be directed to hop like a rabbit andcrawl like a turtle or use other movements that theythink might represent those animals.


Toss Up

Props– one 6-8 inch foam ball, marking for circle (poly spots or chalk)

Prep– Mark a large circle with a smaller one in the middle.




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Arrange the children on the small circle with you in the middle.

Make sure that each child has their own “special spot” onboth the large and small circles. Practice moving from the“special spot” on the small circle to the “special spot” onthe large circle and then back again.

Count “one, two, three” aloud and then say one of thechildren’s names. As you say the name, toss the ballstraight up into the air. The child whose name you calledruns to the center to catch the ball. The other children runto their special spot on the outside circle. Once the child whose name was called gets control of theball, the teacher moves to the smaller circle as do all theother children. Play continues until all children have had achance to be in the center.

9 Tossing

9 Catching


Fitness March

Props– marching music and player (CD, tape, etc.)

Prep– None


Approaches to Physical learning Health


19 B


Arrange the children in 1-2 lines facing front with the teacher as the leader.Play the music and march. Encourage high steps with the knees lifted up on each step.Encourage moving the arms vigorously in a patternopposite to the legs. March around the area in various patterns (lines, zigzags,circles, etc.). Switch and have a child be the leader so that each childhas a turn.

Marching

Forward

Backward

Sideways

Extended Play: The teacher may choose to include this activity with a specific holiday or celebration(i.e., July 4th or birthdays).


Social-Emotional

20 B

Striking a Ball Props– 18 inch high cones, Ethafoam paddles, lightweight 6-8 inch ball (smaller balls allow students to hit too much of the cone), carpet squares to put under the cone to adjust height for those who need it

Prep– Set up an area indoors or out with the cones spread wide enough apart that the children will not swing and accidentally strike another child with the bat. You may want to put jump ropes or tape in a circle around the bat to be considered the “striker-only” area. Make sure all the strikers are facing the same direction and are on a line with one another so that no one is a potential target for balls that have been struck.


Approaches Physical to Learning -Health


9 Children place the ball on the cone, hold their paddles back to the side oftheir bodies and then swing as hard as they can to strike the ball.

9 Ask the children to focus on (watch) the ball and to stand still when swinging the paddle—moving only at their hips.

9 The teacher can instruct the children after observing as to how to adjust

holding their paddles, their stance or their swing. 9 Ask that they swing hard or “see how far you can hit the ball” so that

they achieve a full range of motion in their swing.

Extended Play: If there are not enough cones for every child to swing at once,

some of the children may be placed in the outfield if space allowsretrieving the balls. Make sure they are far enough away that theywould not be injured by a struck ball.

If all children are striking at once, the teacher can signal when it issafe for the children to go all at once to retrieve the balls. Childrenshould pick up as many balls as they hit without having to collectthe exact same balls that they hit.


9 Swinging

9 Striking

9 Watching

9 Collecting


Rainbow Fish to the Rescue

Props– poly spots in 4 colors—blue, green, red, and yellow; hoop or other item that can serve as the fisher person “bucket”

Prep– Put out enough poly spots so that there is one for each child. These will be the homes of the fish. Place hoop or other item on edge of boundary line for this activity.


Approaches to Physical Science Learning Health


21 B


The teacher is the fisherperson and the children are the rainbow fish. Instruct each child to find a home (spot of color) within the ocean boundaries. The teacher signals for the children to swim about in the general space by asking, “Are you ready to swim – to waggle your tails and fins?” ”Go!” The children move about in the general space and are encouraged to swim far away from each other so as not to bump into the tails and fins of the other fish. After a minute or so, the teacher calls out “storm” and the children swim back to their homes to take shelter from the storm. The teacher runs for shelter to the hoop or “bucket” while counting 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. By “1” all children have to be back to their homes or they are thrown out onto the land (outside the ocean boundaries).

Swimming

Waggle

Catching

Tagging


22 B


Going to the Zoo Props– hula hoops; maps created with laminated index cards (twice as many cards as students playing the game) with a red, blue, yellow, or multi-colored road drawn on the cards in the shape of hoops; stuffed animals; 2 boxes or buckets

Prep– Arrange hula hoops to make both straight and curvy roads that lead to the zoo. Make a red road, blue road, yellow road, and multi-colored road. At the starting end, place a box or bucket containing the maps. At the opposite end of the roads, arrange the stuffed animals and place an empty box or bucket. Review colors with the children as well as any special locomotor skills you may want them to use. Also discuss safety while moving in a one-way direction along the hoops.


Approaches Physical Science to Learning Health


9 The children start at one end by each picking up a mapfrom the box or bucket and following that color of road to the zoo.

9 Once they reach the zoo, the children put the maps in theempty box, pet the zoo animals and then return to the start by walking along the side to where they pick up a new map.

9 Have the children walk, jump, tip toe, etc. through theroads, being careful not to step on the hoops since they are slippery.

9 Straight

9 Curvy

9 Jumping

9 Tiptoeing

9 Follow


23 B


Busy Bodies

Props– The Busy Body Book by Lizzy Rockwell; chairs

Prep– None


Creative Language & Physical- Approaches Arts Literacy Health to Learning


9 Read The Busy Body Book with the children.

9 Ask the children what some of their favorite physicalactivities are and talk about them. You could also make a list.

9 Have the children pretend they are doing the variousactivities, using a chair for things like riding a bike or swinging on a swing.

9 Refer to the pictures at the end of the book if more ideasare needed for activities.


9 Paddling

9 Throwing

9 Catching

9 Pedaling

9 Stroking

9 Stretching

9 Lifting

9 Jumping

9 Swinging

9 Dancing

24 B

Math

Bean Bag Buddies

Props– small beanbags (one for each child); whistle or drum for getting children’s attention

Prep– None




9 Instruct the children to begin by tossing the beanbag gently into the air and catching it.

9 Then have children pair up and try tossing their beanbags under-handed to each other.

Have children stand back-to-back and try passing one beanbag from side-to-side. Begin by having the children turn to the right with their backs together. The Child with the beanbag hands it off to the other one. They then both turn to the left and the beanbag is passed back to the first child. They count the number of times they are able to pass before the whistle blows. Then they switch directions.

Next the children are instructed to pass the beanbag to the right with their arms extended above their heads, then to the left with their arms below their waists. They can count until the whistle blows and they switch directions.

Extended Play: The children can further practice their tossing skills by trying to toss the beanbag onto a poly spot or into a paper bag.

9 Tossing

9 Catching

9 Throwing

9 Sideways

9 Over

9 Under

9 Passing


Source: Penn State Cooperative

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9

Water Bottle Bowling

Props– 15 empty 500 ml water bottles; tennis balls

Prep– Set up empty water bottles with one in front, two in the next row, then three, four and five in the subsequent rows. Each child should have a set.


Approaches Math Physical- to Learning Health


25 B


9 Set up empty water bottles in the pattern described above.

9 Make tape line about 15 feet away from the water bottles. Bowling

Rolling Instruct the child to stand behind the taped line and roll the tennis ball toward the water bottles. The teacher can demonstrate the proper bowling technique.

Aiming

9 Explain that the idea is to knock the pins over with three tries.


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Annotated Bibliography

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The Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child program chose the book Up, Down, and Around as its 2008 selection. The book was written by Katherine Ayres and illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott and is published by Candlewick Press.

The book is a sprightly introduction to the pleasure of planting a garden and reaping its benefits. Readers learn about vegetables that grow up towards the sky, down into the ground, and those that grow all around on vines. The text rhymes through planting, growing, picking and finally eating the vegetables grown.

Beyond being a book to learn about gardening and to enjoy the wonderful illustrations it can be used to talk about eating healthy. On the last two pages of the book the characters sit down to a meal that includes all the vegetables they have grown and harvested. Author Katherine Ayres says some of her fondest memories of childhood were helping her grandfather garden and eating tomatoes fresh out of the garden.

One feature of the One Book program is the development of Traveling Trunks designed by the Please Touch Museum and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. The One Book committee realizes that not every preschooler will have a chance to visit a museum so they had the museums create a mini exhibit that could travel to where the children are. The trunks are filled with great hands-on materials. Talk to your local public library about visiting the library or having the library visit your program with the trunk. Even better, there is an activity guide created to go with the trunks. This wonderful resource guide is also available on the One Book website—www.paonebook.org so that everyone can access it. After 2008, you can access the guide by going to the website and clicking on the archive button.

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Keystone Color Me Healthy Children’s Books

The following annotated bibliography is a 2008 update by the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy based on the work of the Penn

State Cooperative Extension and the PA Department of Education Office of Commonwealth Libraries.

FOOD THEMES

ABCs

Art, Creativity and Imagination

Breakfast: Start the Day Right

Celebrations, Culture and History

Cookbooks: Kids in the Kitchen

Dairy Delights

Fall Harvest: Apples

Fall Harvest: Pumpkins

Family Meals: Go Healthy at Home

Farm To Table: Where Food Comes From

Favorite Foods: Bread

Favorite Foods: Buffet Selection

Favorite Foods: Pancakes

Favorite Foods: Pasta and Noodles

Favorite Foods: Pizza

Favorite Foods: Popcorn

Favorite Foods: Rice

Favorite Foods: Soup

Food Allergies

Fruit Festival

Gardens and Growing Food

Great Grains

Lunch Time

Moving: Go Dance

Moving: Go Active

Nutrition and the Food Pyramid

Our Senses

PA Agriculture, Authors, & Artists

Picnics: Go Eat in the Great Outdoors

Shopping

Table Manners for Tots

Try Something New: Go with a Healthy Choice

Variety of Vegetables

Resources for Parents and Educators

Alphabetical Booklist

This title was currently out of print when the updates were

compiled, so check your local library or used book seller to access

a copy.

This title is available in a Spanish language or bilingual

edition. Please note that the publisher of the second language

book edition may not be the same as the original English language

publisher.

This title won a national award or was honored on a

distinguished book list.

This title is available as an audio (cassette, CD, digital audio

file/MP3) or visual (VHS or DVD) version. Please note that the

publisher of the AV edition may not be the same as the original

print edition

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ABCs

Alligator Arrived with Apples Crescent Dragonwagon Simon & Schuster Children's

From Alligator's apples to Zebra's zucchini, a multitude of alphabetical animals and foods celebrate Thanksgiving with a grand feast.

Alphabet Cooking Elaine Magee

NTC Publishing Group

This cookbook shows parents and teachers how to work with children to create exciting dishes that begin with every letter of the alphabet.

Alphabet Soup Katherine Anne Banks Dragonfly Books

A boy's ability to spell words with his alphabet soup comes in handy during an imaginary journey with a friendly bear.

Alphabet Soup: A Feast of Letters Scott Gustafson Greenwich Workshop Press

A host of animals from A to Z come to Otter's housewarming party, bringing a wide variety of foods for his alphabetical soup.

Alphabite! A Funny Feast from A to Z Charles E. Reasoner and Vicky Hardt Putnam Publishing Group

Guess who is taking a bite from a whole alphabet of goodies? He started with Apples and Banana Bread and is munching his way to Zucchini.

An Alphabet Salad Sarah Schuette Coughlan Publishing

Introduces fruits and vegetables through photographs and brief text that describe one item for each letter of the alphabet.

Eating the Alphabet Lois Ehlert Harcourt

Reviews upper and lowercase letters while introducing fruits and vegetables

from around the world.

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Fed Up! A Feast of Frazzled Foods Rex Barron Penguin Group Inc.

In a series of alphabetically arranged scenes, a cabbage cries over coleslaw, eggs exit, oranges object, and other foods are pictured to represent all the letters of the alphabet.

Old Black Fly Jim Aylesworth

Henry Holt & Company, Inc.

Introduce the need for food safety while following the naughty old black fly through the alphabet as he has a very busy, bad day landing where he should not be. Also read Pamela Duncan Edwards’ Warthogs in the Kitchen.

Potluck Anne Shelby Orchard Books

Alpha and Betty have a potluck and all their friends bring appropriate alphabetical food. Also read Lisa Jahn‐Clough’s ABC Yummy.

The ABCs of Fruits and Vegetables and Beyond Steve Charney, David Goldbeck, and Marie Burgaleta Larson Ceres Press

The book provides a rhyming introduction to fruits and vegetables with food facts and recipes.

Art, Creativity and Imagination

Cherries and Cherry Pits Vera B. Williams

William Morrow & Co.

When Bidemmi starts to draw, her imagination takes off. Enter her world, look at her pictures, and watch her stories grow and grow.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Judith Barrett Simon & Schuster Children's

Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers‐‐until the weather takes a turn for the worse. Also read the sequel Pickles to Pittsburgh.

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Cooking Art MaryAnn F. Kohl and Jean Potter

Gryphon House

Cooking Art is a book specially made for young kids to teach them about the kitchen. This book has easy‐to‐follow instructions.

Eggbert the Slightly Cracked Egg Tom Ross

Putnam Publishing Group

A cracked egg with a talent for painting goes through some painful experiences before realizing that being cracked is ok. Also by the illustrator of this title, see Rex Barron’s Showdown at the Food Pyramid.

Food for Thought Joost Elffers and Saxton Freymann

Scholastic, Inc.

Shapes, colors, numbers, ABCs, and opposites illustrated with sculptures made from fruit and vegetables. Also read Charles Shaw’s It Looked Like Spilt Milk.

How Are You Peeling? Joost Elffers and Saxton Freymann

Scholastic, Inc.

Brief text and photographs of carvings made from vegetables introduce the world of emotions. Also read by the same authors Fast Food.

June 29, 1999 David Wiesner

Houghton Mifflin Company

While her third‐grade classmates are sprouting seeds in paper cups, Holly plans a more ambitious, innovative science project.

Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present Charlotte Zolatow HarperCollins Juvenile Books

A little girl and Mr. Rabbit together think of the perfect gift for her mother…the gift of color represented by different fruits. Also read Elsa Beskow’s Peter in Blueberry Land.

One Potato Diana Pomeroy

Harcourt Children's Books

A counting book which uses images of fruits and vegetables to illustrate numbers from one to one hundred; includes an explanation of how to do potato printing.

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Play With Your Food Joost Elffers and Saxton Freymann

Friedman, Michael Publishing Group, Inc.

The 150 clever photographs show how to turn fruits and vegetables in to sculptures you can eat.

Still‐Life Stew Helena Clare Pittman Hyperion Books for Children

Rosa cooks up a still‐life stew. Includes a recipe.

The Paper Crane Molly Bang


A mysterious man enters a restaurant and pays for his dinner with a paper crane that magically comes alive and dances.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Putnam Publishing Group

Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through different foods.

Walter the Baker Eric Carle Simon & Schuster Children's

By order of the Duke, Walter the baker must invent a tasty roll through which the rising sun can shine three times.

Weslandia Paul Fleischman

Candlewick Press

Wesley's garden produces a crop of huge, strange plants that provide him with all his basic needs.

Breakfast: Start the Day Right

A Bear for Breakfast Jennifer King Gingham Dog Press

A fidgety boy imagines what breakfast would be like if several different animals came to the meal.

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George Washington's Breakfast Jean Fritz Penguin Young Readers Group

Young George Washington Allen gets his family to help him find out what the first president of the United States ate for breakfast.

I Like Bagels Robin Pickering Scholastic Library Publishing

Shows how bagels are made and describes the many different ways people eat them. Also read in the Welcome Books series I Like Cereal by Jennifer Julius.

If You Give a Moose a Muffin Laura Joffe Numeroff

HarperCollins Publishers

Silly things happen if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests. Also read by the same author If You Give a Pig a Pancake.

The Berenstain Bears Cook‐it: Breakfast for Mama Stan Berenstain and Jan Berenstain

Random House, Inc.

Papa Bear and the cubs set out to make breakfast for Mama. Includes activities for parents to help children prepare a special breakfast.

We're Making Breakfast for Mother Shirley Neitzel Greenwillow Books

Rhymes and rebuses show children making breakfast for their mother,

complete with flowers and a tray.

Celebrations, Culture and History

A Turkey for Thanksgiving Eve Bunting Houghton Mifflin Company

Turkey is afraid to go to the Moose’s for Thanksgiving because he doesn't realize that his hosts want him at their table, not on it. Also see Nancy White Carlstrom’s Thanksgiving Day at Our House and

B.G. Hennessy’s One Little, Two Little Pilgrims.

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Apples and Honey Joan Holub Penguin Group

A family prepares for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

Apples to Oregon Deborah Hopkinson Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

A pioneer father transports his beloved fruit trees and his family to Oregon in the mid‐nineteenth century.

Bee‐Bim Bop! Linda Sue Park Clarion Books

A child, eager for a favorite meal of “mix‐mix rice”, helps with the shopping, food preparation, and table setting; includes a recipe for this

Korean‐American dish. Also read Nancy Patz’s Babies Can’t Eat Kimchee!

Chato's Kitchen Gary Soto Putnam Publishing Group

To get the "ratoncitos," little mice, who have moved into the barrio to come to his house, Chato the cat prepares all kinds of good food: fajitas, frijoles, salsa, enchiladas, and more.

Dumpling Soup Jama Kim Rattigan

Econo‐Clad Books

A young Asian American girl living in Hawaii tries to make dumplings for her family's New Year's celebration.

Eating Gwenyth Swain Lerner Publishing Group

Describes in photos and rhyming text, the foods and eating customs of people around the world. Also see Roberta Duyff and Patricia C. McKissack’s It’s a Sandwich.

How My Parents Learned to Eat Ina Friedman


An American sailor dates a Japanese girl and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.

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I Lost My Tooth in Africa Penda Diakite Scholastic, Inc.

A little girl visits family in Mali, Africa and shares in the everyday experiences of the village; includes recipe for African onion sauce and a glossary.

Latkes and Applesauce: A Hanukkah Story Fran Manushkin

Scholastic, Inc. ISBN 0590422650

When a blizzard leaves a family housebound one Hanukkah, they share what little food they have with some starving animals who later return the favor.

My First Kwanzaa Book Deborah M. Newton Chocolate

Scholastic, Inc.

Introduces Kwanzaa, the holiday in which Afro‐Americans celebrate their cultural heritage. Also read Eric Copage’s Kwanzaa: An African‐ American Celebration of Culture and Cooking and Denise Burden‐ Patmon’s Imani’s Gift at Kwanzaa.

My Mom Loves Me More Than Sushi Filomena Gomes

Orca Book Publishers

A girl and her mother feast on 12 different foods from around the world, but no matter how much they love their meals, the girl knows that her Mom loves her best.

Now We Can Have a Wedding DyAnne DiSalvo‐Ryan Holiday House, Inc.

Because the guests invited to Sallie's wedding believe that a proper

celebration requires their specific ethnic food, they prepare delicacies from around the world.

Possum Magic Mem Fox

Harcourt Children's Books

When Grandma Poss's magic turns Hush invisible, the two possums take a culinary tour of Australia to find the food that will make Hush visible again.

The Kids Multicultural Cookbook

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Deanna Cook and Michael P. Kline

Williamson Publishing Company

With this book, kids whip up 50 great multicultural dishes and also stories from real children from Asia, Europe, and Africa.

There’s a Chef in My World! Emeril Lagasse

HarperCollins Children's Books

This cookbook is for kids and adults to use together, with 75 recipes from around the world, along with cooking tips and safety precautions.

Today is Monday Eric Carle Putnam Publishing Group

Each day of the week brings a new food, until on Sunday all the world's children can come and eat it up. Also read Dee Lillegard’s Potatoes on Tuesday.

Too Many Tamales Gary Soto Putnam Publishing Group

Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a family get‐together at Christmas; later, she realizes the ring is missing.

Cookbooks: Kids in the Kitchen

Chop, Simmer, Season Alexa Brandenberg Harcourt

A book of illustrated cooking verbs—one per page—showing two chefs preparing the following menu for a tiny, homey restaurant.

Cooking Rocks! Rachel Ray Lake Isle Press, Inc.

Recipes are organized in sections by age; 4‐6 year olds; 7 years old and up; and 12 years old and up.

Cooking with Herb, the Vegetarian Dragon Jules Bass Barefoot Books

Herb is a dragon, and a vegetarian. His grandmother taught him to cook, and twenty of his favorite recipes are included. Also see Judi Gillies and Jennifer Glossop’s The Jumbo Vegetarian Cookbook and Alison Behnke’s Vegetarian Cooking Around the World.

Cup Cooking ‐ Individual Child Portion Picture Recipes Barbara Johnson and Betty Plemons

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Early Educators Press

The illustrations and words are easy enough for a kindergartener to use. All of the recipes can be done using an electric skillet, kitchen cups and a few ingredients.

Healthy Snacks for Kids Penny Warner

Bristol Publishing Enterprises

The recipes are easy to follow. They also give great ideas on presentation to help with picky eaters.

Healthy Treats and Super Snacks for Kids Penny Warner

McGraw‐Hill/Contemporary Books

Offers quick and easy recipes to appeal to children's sense of fun and adventure to get them to eat healthful foods without a battle.

Kids Cook 1‐2‐3 Rozanne Gold Bloomsbury USA Children's Books

150 recipes that use only three ingredients.

Kids’ First Cookbook American Cancer Society

American Cancer Society, Inc.

A cookbook filled with nutrition information, 53 recipes, how to read a food label, kitchen safety, and a guide to the food pyramid. Also see the Please Touch Museum’s The Please Touch Cookbook and Margaret Kenda and Phyllis S. Williams’ Cooking Wizardry for Kids.

Kosher by Design: Kids in the Kitchen Susie Fishbein Mesorah Publications, Limited

For parents and children to use together, kid‐friendly recipes and helpful tips introduce kosher cooking techniques.

Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up Mollie Katzen and Ann Henderson

Ten Speed Press This book presents recipes and advice on cooking. Each of the 17 recipes

appears twice, once in words and once in full‐color pictures. Also see Pat McClenahan and Ida Jaqua’s Cool Cooking for Kids.

Salad People and More Real Recipes Mollie Katzen

Ten Speed Press

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20 recipes with illustrated step by step directions for preschoolers. Also see Noreen Thomas’ Caterpillar Scramble and Cantaloupe Boats.

The Mother Goose Cookbook Marianna Mayer


14 nursery rhymes, each with a corresponding recipe.

The Spatulatta Cookbook Isabella Gerasole and Olivia Gerasole Scholastic, Inc.

Based on the award winning Spatulatta website, these recipes are organized by seasons with additional sections on snacks and vegetarian choices.

The U.S. History Cookbook: Delicious Recipes and Exciting Events from the Past Joan D’amico and Karen Drummond

Wiley, John & Sons, Inc.

American recipes, timelines, and food facts. Also see by the same authors The Coming to America Cookbook.

Dairy Delights

A Big Cheese for the White House Candace Fleming

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

In 1801, the townspeople of Chesire, Massachusetts, create a gigantic cheddar cheese to present to President Jefferson at his New Year's Day party.

Cow Jules Older Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc.

A light‐hearted, informative look at cows: different breeds, what they eat, how they make milk, and an assortment of other facts.

I Like Cheese Robin Pickering Children's Press

Describes different kinds of cheeses and how they may be eaten.

Kiss the Cow Phyllis Root Candlewick Press

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The most curious and stubborn of Mama May’s children observes how she coaxes daily buckets of milk from the cow and then imitates her to the letter. Also read Nancy Van Laan’s The Tiny, Tiny Boy and the Big, Big Cow and Chris Babcock’s No Moon, No Milk!

Oliver’s Milkshake Vivian French Scholastic, Inc.

Auntie Jen takes Oliver to a farm, buys the ingredients she needs, and makes him a special milk shake.

The Milk Makers Gail Gibbons Simon & Schuster Children's

Explains how cows produce milk and how it is processed before being

delivered to stores.

Fall Harvest: Apples

10 Red Apples Pat Hutchins Greenwillow

Count the red apples before they are all gone. Will there be enough for the farmer’s wife to bake a pie?

An Apple a Day! Jennifer Storey Gillis Storey Books

Apple facts, the development and parts of an apple, nutritional value, types, and folklore are all part of this offering.

Big Red Apple Tony Johnston Scholastic, Inc.

The life cycle of an apple is presented simply, beginning with a growing tree filled with big red apples. Also read Betsy Maestro’s How Do Apples Grow?

How to Make Apple Pie and See the World Marjorie Priceman Bantam Doubleday Dell Books

Since the market is closed, the reader is led around the world to gather the

ingredients for making an apple pie; includes recipe.

I Am An Apple Jean Marzollo

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Scholastic, Inc.

Depicts a bud on an apple tree as it grows into an apple, ripens, is harvested, and provides seeds as a promise for the future.

Picking Apples & Pumpkins Amy Hutchings and Richard Hutchings

Scholastic, Inc. Spend the day with Kristy, her family, and two best friends as they pick apples

and pumpkins at Battleview Orchards in New Jersey.

The Apple Pie that Papa Baked Lauren Thompson

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

In this cumulative poem, a girl describes the steps her father takes to bake an apple pie.

The Apple Pie Tree Zoe Hall Scholastic, Inc.

Describes an apple tree as it grows leaves and flowers and then produces its fruit, while in its branches robins make a nest, lay eggs, and raise a family; includes a recipe for apple pie.

The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree Gail Gibbons Harcourt

As the seasons pass, Arnold enjoys a variety of activities as a result of his apple tree. Includes a recipe for apple pie and a description of how an apple cider press works. Also see Apples by the same author.

The Story of Johnny Appleseed Aliki Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Introduces John Chapman, the American folk hero, who planted apple trees. Also read Steven Kellogg's Johnny Appleseed and Reeve Lindbergh’s The Story of Johnny Appleseed.

Fall Harvest: Pumpkins

How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? Margaret McNamara

Random House Children's Books

Mr. Tiffin’s class works on answering the title’s question which is a messy job with a surprising outcome.

In a Pumpkin Shell Jennifer Storey Gillis

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Storey Books

Projects, recipes, and activities related to growing, using, and enjoying pumpkins: jewelry, musical instruments, puzzles, soup, and cookies for kids ages 5 and up.

It's Pumpkin Time! Zoe Hall Scholastic, Inc.

A sister and brother plant and tend their own pumpkin patch so they will have jack‐o‐lanterns for Halloween.

Pumpkin Circle George Levenson Ten Speed Press

Rhyming text and photos follow a pumpkin patch as it grows and changes, from seeds to harvest then to seeds again.

Pumpkin Fiesta Caryn Yacowitz HarperCollins Children's Books

Foolish Fernando tries to copy Old Juana's successful gardening techniques, but without really watching to see how much effort and love she puts into her work. Includes a recipe for pumpkin soup.

Pumpkin, Pumpkin Jeanne Titherington William Morrow & Co.

Jamie plants a pumpkin seed and, after watching it grow, carves it, and saves some seeds to plant in the spring

Pumpkins Ken Robbins Holtzbrinck Publishers

Full color photos and simple text describe the growing cycle of the pumpkin. Also read Elizabeth King’s The Pumpkin Patch.

The Biggest Pumpkin Ever Steven Kroll Scholastic, Inc.

Two mice, each without the other's knowledge, help a pumpkin grow into "the biggest pumpkin ever" ‐ but for different purposes.

The Pumpkin Blanket Deborah Tumey Zagwyn

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Ten Speed Press

A little girl sacrifices her beloved blanket to save the pumpkins in the garden from frost.

Family Meals: Go Healthy at Home

Clams All Year Maryann Cocca‐Leffler

Boyds Mills Press

A large, extended family spends summers together at the seashore and encounters a memorable bumper crop of clams.

Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia Carmen Lomas Garza

Children’s Book Press

The author describes, in bilingual text and illustrations, her experiences growing up in a Hispanic community in Texas.

Feast for 10 Cathryn Falwell Houghton Mifflin Co.

Numbers from one to ten are used to tell how members of a family shop and work together to prepare a meal.

In My Momma’s Kitchen Jerdine Nolen HarperCollins Publishers

A child describes the family events, like making apple butter and having relatives visit, that center on Momma’s kitchen. Also read Patricia Hubbell’s Pots and Pans and Anne Rockwell’s Pots and Pans.

Just Us Women Jeanette Caines HarperCollins Children's Books

A girl and her favorite aunt share the excitement of a car trip to North Carolina and enjoy meals together along the way.

Let’s Eat! Ana Zamorano

Scholastic, Inc.

Each day Antonio’s Mama tries to get everyone to sit down together to eat, but someone is always busy elsewhere, until the family celebrates a new arrival.

Saturday Sancocho Leyla Torres

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Maria Lili and her grandmother barter a dozen eggs at the market square to get the ingredients to cook their traditional Saturday chicken sancocho; includes recipe.

Someone’s in the Kitchen with Mommy Elaine Magee

NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group

100 recipes that are fun to make, look great, taste delicious, and are healthy. Also see Emril Lagasse’s There’s a Chef in My Family and Sarah Williamson and Zachary Williamson’s Kids Cook! Fabulous Food for the Whole Family.

The Relatives Came Cynthia Rylant Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time enjoying the summer strawberries and melons.

Farm to Table: Where Food Comes From

A Book of Fruit Barbara Hirsch Lember


While most children recognize fruit in a bowl or in a supermarket, some have never seen fruit growing on a tree or a bush. This well‐photographed book makes the connection between the fruit and where and how it grows before it arrives at the supermarket.

A Taste of Honey Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

Marshall Cavendish Inc.

A little bear and her father trace the origins of honey from the jar all the way back to the bees that first produced it. Also read Paula Hogan’s Life Cycle of the Honeybee and Anne Rockwell’s Honey in a Hive.

Extra Cheese, Please! Chris Peterson Boyds Mills Press

Describes how cheese is made, from a sample's beginnings on a Wisconsin dairy farm until a cheese factory ships the final product across America. Also read Shannon Zemlicka’s From Milk to Cheese.

First the Egg Laura Vaccaro Seeger Roaring Brook Press

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Follow the changes as an egg becomes a chicken, a seed a flower, and a caterpillar a butterfly. Also read Gallemard Jeunesse’s The Egg.

Mrs. Fickle's Pickles Lori Ries Boyds Mills Press

Follow a pickle grower step‐by‐step from buying the seed to eating the pickles she loves.

Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Buttered Bread Maj Lindman

Albert Whitman

Three little Swedish boys want some butter for their bread, but the cow will give no milk because she has no fresh green grass, and there is no grass because the sun has not been shining.

Thanks to Cows Allen Fowler Scholastic Library Publishing

A simple description of how a cow produces milk and how the milk is processed for human consumption.

The Tortilla Factory Gary Paulsen Harcourt

In a tribute to the Mexican farm worker, follow the cycle of life‐‐from seed to plant to tortilla.

Tomatoes to Ketchup Inez Snyder Children's Press

Simple text and illustrations show how a mother and son cook tomatoes with vinegar and spices to make ketchup.

What’s for Lunch? Banana Pam Robson

Scholastic Library Publishing

Presents facts about the banana, including where and how it is grown, harvested, and marketed, and what other products are made from bananas. Also see other books in the What’s for Lunch? series.

Where Does Food Come From? Shelley Rotner Lerner Publishing Group

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A sentence or two discuss cocoa beans, potatoes, bread, grains, cornstalks, popcorn, milk, lemons, eggs, tomatoes, peanuts, grapes, and more. Also see Dorothy Hinshaw Patent’s Where Food Comes From.

Favorite Foods: Bread

Bread and Jam for Frances Russell Hoban HarperCollins Children's Books

Frances decides she likes to eat only bread and jam at every meal‐‐until to her surprise‐‐her parents grant her wish.

Bread Comes to Life George Levenson Ten Speed Press

Starting with a patch of wheat grass in a back yard garden, this book takes you through how bread is made.

Bread is for Eating David Gershator Econo‐Clad Books

This book celebrates bread and everyone who works so hard to make it, from seed to supermarket. The rhythmic, bilingual text introduces readers to Spanish words through song.

Bread, Bread, Bread Ann Morris William

Morrow & Co.

Celebrates the many different kinds of bread and how it may be enjoyed all over the world.

Everybody Bakes Bread Norah Dooley Lerner Publishing Group

A rainy‐day errand introduces Carrie to many different kinds of bread.

In the Night Kitchen Maurice Sendak


Mickey dreams of a night time adventure in the kitchen where rather odd bakers prepare the next morning’s cake and bread.

Sun Bread Elisa Kleven Penguin Young Readers Group

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A baker decides to bring some warmth to a winter day by baking special bread.

Tony’s Bread Tomie de Paola

Putnam Publishing Group

A delicious story of how the sweet Italian bread in a flower‐pot shape came to be called "panettone."

Favorite Foods: Buffet Selection

Chicken Sunday Patricia Polacco Putnam Berkley, Inc.

To thank Miss Eula for her wonderful Sunday chicken dinners, three children sell decorated eggs to buy her a beautiful Easter hat.

First Book of Sushi Amy Wilson Sanger

Ten Speed Press

Rhyming text introduces the varieties and Japanese vocabulary of this popular fish dish; part of the World Snacks series.

Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke Pamela Duncan Edwards


An alliterative tale about four fox kits who go hunting for meat, while their gourmet brother fixes a vegetarian feast.

Hamburger Heaven Wong Herbert Yee


When Pinky Pig's job at Hamburger Heaven is threatened, she launches a campaign to make the restaurant more popular with the other animals.

Nuts to You! Lois Ehlert Harcourt

A squirrel persuades a child to offer him some nuts

Peanut Butter and Jelly Nadine Bernard Westcott

Viking Penguin

Rhyming text and illustrations explain how to make a peanut butter jelly sandwich; includes finger play and movement instructions. Also see Remy

Charlip’s Peanut Butter Party.

Scrambled Eggs Super! Dr. Seuss

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Random House, Inc.

An enterprising Seuss creature hunts uncommon eggs for a super deluxe dish. Also read Ruth Heller’s Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones.

Stop That Pickle Peter Armour


A pickle tries to escape being eaten by running through the city streets, where he is chased by other food items.

Yummers! James Marshall


Eugene Turtle takes Emily Pig on a long walk so she'll lose weight, but the two end up stopping every few minutes for a snack. Also read the sequel Yummers Too!

Favorite Foods: Pancakes

Hey, Pancakes! Tamson Weston

Harcourt

The day gets off to a rough start, but soon the smell of pancakes fills the air and a family gathers for a breakfast feast.

If You Give a Pig a Pancake Laura Joffe Numeroff

HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 0060266864

One thing leads to another when you give a pig a pancake. Also read Ruth Sawyer’s Journey Cake, Ho!

Mama Panya's Pancakes: A Village Tale from Kenya Mary Chamberlin

Barefoot Books ISBN 1905236640

Mama Panya has just enough money to buy ingredients for a few pancakes, so when her son Adika invites all their friends to join them, she is sure there will not be enough to go around. With recipe and facts about Kenya and Kiswahili.

Pancakes, Pancakes! Eric Carle

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Simon & Schuster Children's

By cutting and grinding the wheat for flour, Jack starts from scratch to help make his breakfast pancake. Also read Monica Wellington’s Crepes by Suzette and Tomie dePaola’s Pancakes for Breakfast.

Favorite Foods: Pasta and Noodles

Daddy Makes the Best Spaghetti Anna Grossnickle Hines Houghton Mifflin Company

Not only does Corey's father make the best spaghetti, but he also dresses up as Bathman and acts like a barking dog.

Everybody Brings Noodles Norah Dooley Lerner Publishing Group

All the neighbors bring a pasta dish to Carrie’s July 4th party.

I like Pasta Jennifer Julius Scholastic Library Publishing

A look at different kinds of Italian pasta.

More Spaghetti, I Say Rita Gelman

Scholastic, Inc.

Minnie the monkey is too busy eating spaghetti‐‐all day, in all ways‐‐to play with her friend Freddie.

On Top of Spaghetti Paul Brett Johnson Scholastic, Inc.

Based on the song, this book is a reminder that when things don't go according to plan, they can get very silly. Also read Maryann Cocca‐ Leffler’s Wednesday is Spaghetti Day.

Spaghetti and Meatballs for All: A Mathematical Story Marylin Burns

Scholastic, Inc.

The seating for a family reunion gets complicated as people rearrange the tables and chairs to seat more guests. Also read Alexandra Wright’s Alice in Pastaland.

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Spaghetti Eddie Ryan Sanangelo Boyds Mills Press

Eddie’s love of spaghetti saves the day. The pictures tell a parallel story of a dog waiting for a taste of the pasta.

Story of Noodles Ying Chang Compestine

Holiday House, Inc.

Left alone to prepare their family's prize‐winning dumplings for the annual cooking contest, the young Kang boys accidentally invent a new dish, "mian tiao," or noodles. Includes a cultural note and a recipe for long life noodles.

Strega Nona Tomie dePaola


When Strega Nona leaves Big Anthony alone with her magic pasta pot, he is determined to show the townspeople how it works.

Favorite Foods: Pizza

Little Nino’s Pizzeria Karen Barbour Harcourt

Tony likes to help his father at their small family restaurant, but everything changes when Little Nino's Pizzeria becomes a fancier place. Also read Marissa

Moss’ Mel’s Diner and John Stadler’s Animal Café.

Pizza at Sally’s Monica Wellington

Penguin Young Readers Group

Sally prepares, mixes, and bakes delicious pizzas; recipe included. Also read Virginia Walter’s “Hi, Pizza Man!”

Pizza for the Queen Nancy Castaldo Holiday House, Inc.

Raffaele Esposito makes pizza with the colors of the Italian flag for Queen Margherita’s visit; recipe included. Also read Mary Jane Auch’s The Princess and the Pizza.

Pizza Party! Grace Maccarone

Scholastic, Inc.

A group of children have fun making a pizza. Also read Christina Dobson’s Pizza Counting.

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The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza Philemon Sturges

Penguin Young Readers Group

A retelling of the folk tale that ends with the friends offering to do the dishes for the busy cook.

Favorite Foods: Popcorn

Popcorn Alex Moran

Harcourt Children's Books Follow what happens when friends pop too much popcorn.

Popcorn at the Palace Emily Arnold McCully

Harcourt

In the mid‐1800's Maisie Ferris and her father travel to England to introduce the American phenomenon of popcorn.

Popcorn! Elaine Landau Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc.

Provides a history of one of America's favorite snack foods, presenting its origins, nutritional information and recipes.

The Popcorn Book Tomie dePaola

Holiday House, Inc.

Some interesting popcorn stories and legends as well as two original recipes accompany explanations of popcorn's origins and

manufacture.

The Popcorn Dragon Jane Thayer HarperCollins Publishers

Though his hot breath is the envy of all the other animals, a young dragon learns that showing off does not make friends.

The Popcorn Shop Alice Low Scholastic, Inc.

To keep up with demand, Popcorn Nell buys a very large popping machine, but when it pops day and night, it makes more than enough popcorn!

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Favorite Foods: Rice

Chicken Soup with Rice Maurice Sendak


A poem for each month that says why chicken soup with rice is nice all year long.

Everybody Cooks Rice Norah Dooley Lerner Publishing Group

A child is sent to find a younger brother at dinnertime and is introduced to a variety of cultures through the many different ways rice is prepared at the different households visited. Also read Sylvia Rosa‐Casanova’s Mama Povi and the Pot of Rice.

Mice and Beans Pam Munoz Ryan

Scholastic, Inc.

Get ready for one birthday party, one delicious Mexican meal, and lots of children, aunts, uncles, cousins, and surprise guests for a fiesta; includes glossary of Spanish terms used in the story.

One Grain of Rice ‐ A Mathematical Folktale Hitz Demi

Scholastic, Inc.

A reward of one grain of rice doubles day by day into millions of grains of rice when a selfish raja is outwitted by a clever girl.

Rice Is Life Rita Golden Gelman


This book demonstrates the importance of rice to life on the island of Bali in the country of Indonesia, where rice is consumed for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Run Away Rice Cake Ying Chang Compestine

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing.

It is Chinese New Year's Eve, and the Chang family is preparing to celebrate the holiday when the special rice cake gets away.

The Funny Little Woman Arlene Mosel

Penguin Group

In this tale set in old Japan, a little woman who loves to laugh pursues her rice dumpling and is captured by wicked creatures from which she escapes with a magic rice pot.

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What’s for Lunch? Rice Pam Robson

Scholastic Library Publishing

Follows rice from its source on farm or plantation right through to the table, discussing how rice is grown, processed, and produced.

Favorite Foods: Soup

Blue Moon Soup Gary Goss Little Brown & Company

A sweetly illustrated cookbook that will lure the whole family into the soup‐making routine. It's small and user‐friendly ‐‐ even a beginning cook will feel comfortable at the soup pot. Also see Emeril Lagasse’s There’s a Chef in My Soup!

Carrot Soup John Segal Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Take one rabbit, patiently growing carrots. Add his friends ‐ Mole, Dog, Cat, Duck, and Pig. Mix all the ingredients together for a super surprise. Also read Dorothy Donohue’s Veggie Soup.

Duck Soup Jackie Urbanovic HarperCollins Publishers

Max the duck looks for a special ingredient to make his soup amazing; but Brody the dog, Dakota the cat, and Bebe the bird race about thinking Max is missing. Did duck fall into the soup by mistake? Also read Pamela Duncan

Edwards’ Slop Goes the Soup.

Get Well, Good Knight Shelley Moore

Thomas Puffin

The Good Knight is on a quest to find something to help his three little dragon friends recover from their colds. Also see Aliki’s A Medieval Feast.

Pumpkin Soup Helen Cooper Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Cat, Squirrel, and Duck argue about who will perform what step in preparing their pumpkin soup. Also read Tony Johnson’s The Soup Bone and Barbara Brenner’s Group Soup or Beef Stew.

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Stone Soup Marcia Brown

Simon & Schuster

When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and the entire town enjoys a feast. Also read Jon Muth’s retelling of the same folktale. See Frances Temple’s Tiger Soup for a Jamaican trickster tale.

Watch out for Chicken Feet in Your Soup Tomie dePaola

Aladdin Paperbacks

Embarrassed to introduce his friend to his old‐fashioned Italian grandmother, a young boy gains a new appreciation of her when he finds how well she and his friend get along. Also read Betsy Everitt’s Mean Soup.

Food Allergies A Day at the Playground Tracie Schrand Llumina Press

Food allergy awareness tips for young children.

Allie the Allergic Elephant: A Children’s Story of Peanut Allergies Nicole Smith

Allergic Child Publishing Group

Introduces peanut allergies and what to do when you can’t share snacks. Also read by the same author Cody the Allergic Cow on milk allergies.

The Kid‐Friendly Food Allergy Cookbook Leslie Hammond and Lynne Marie Rominger

Rockport Publishers

150 recipes sensitive to common food allergy needs of young children.

The Peanut Butter Jam Elizabeth Sussman

Nassau Health Press

Sam has a severe allergic reaction when he gives in to Jack’s teasing and touches the peanut butter used in the class bird feeder craft.

The Peanut‐Free Café Gloria Koster Albert Whitman

Simon, who loves peanut butter, suggests that the school sets up a fun no‐ peanut table, so Grant, a new student with a peanut butter allergy, won’t have to sit alone.

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Fruit Fesssstival

Apple Fractions Jerry Palotta Scholastic, Inc.

Describes a variety of apples plus a Japanese pear and uses them to introduce fractions. Also read Jerry Palotta’s Eating Fractions.

Blueberries for Sal Robert McCloskey

Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers

On a summer day in Maine, a little girl and a bear cub, wandering away from their blueberry picking mothers, each find the other's mother by mistake.

Blueberry Shoe Ann Dixon Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company

When Baby loses a shoe on a blueberry‐picking trip, it becomes an object of curiosity for all the animals on Ptarmigan Mountain before being rediscovered by the family with a surprise inside.

Fruit Pascale de Brougoing and Gallimard Jeunesse

Scholastic, Inc.

In this introduction to fruits, see an apple seed sprout and grow into a tree, watch apples ripen and fall from the tree, and explore the inside of the seed.

Fruits Vijaya Khisty Bodach Pebble Plus

An introduction to fruit as a part of a plant and the different kinds of fruit. Also read Cynthia Klingel and Robert B. Noyed’s Fruit which includes information on fruit as a food group.

Fruits and Vegetables/Frutas y Vegetales Gladys Rosa‐Mendoza

Me+mi Publishing

A bilingual introduction to fruits and vegetables.

Icy Watermelon Mary Sue Galindo

Arte Publico Press or Pinata Books

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When three generations of a family gather to eat watermelon, the grandparents

reminisce about how the sweet fruit brought them together.

Lemons Are Not Red Laura Vaccaro Seeger Roaring Brook Press

Cutouts in the pages introduce color with the pattern of “Lemons are not Red. Apples are red. Lemons are yellow…” Also read N.N. Charles’ What am I?

Mr. Putter and Tabby Pick the Pears Cynthia Rylant Harcourt

When he gets too old to climb up the ladder, Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby figure out an ingenious way to pick pears for pear jelly.

Oliver’s Fruit Salad Vivian French Orchard Book

In this story, a little boy doesn't want canned juice, but when fresh fruit is purchased, doesn't like that either.

One Watermelon Seed Celia Barker Lottridge Fitzhenry and Whiteside

Max and Josephine tend their garden while readers follow along, counting from one to ten as the garden is planted and harvested. Also see Kathi Appelt’s Watermelon Day.

Orange Pear Apple Bear Emily Gravett


Follows the bear as the four words from the title change to create different scenes in which the bear interacts with the fruit.

The First Strawberry Joseph Bruchac Penguin Young Readers Group

A Cherokee legend where the Sun causes strawberries to grow to help create peace between the first man and first woman after their first fight.

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear Don Wood and Audrey Wood

Child's Play‐International

Little Mouse worries that the big, hungry bear will take away his freshly picked ripe, red strawberry.

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Gardens and Growing Food

A Gardener’s Alphabet Mary Azarian


An alphabet book featuring words associated with gardening, including bulbs, compost, digging, insects, and weeds. Also read Isabel Wilner’s A Garden Alphabet.

And the Good Brown Earth Kathy Henderson Candlewick Gram and Joe spend time together taking care of the vegetable patch, ending in a harvest time filled with surprises.

Anna’s Garden Songs Mary Q. Steele

Greenwillow Books

A collection of fourteen poems about the beet, potato, radish, onion, and other plants found in the garden.

City Green Dyanne Di Salvo‐Ryan William Morrow & Co.

Marcy and Miss Rosa start a campaign to clean up an empty lot and turn it into a community garden. Also see Erika Tamar’s The Garden of Happiness; and Monica Hughes’ A Handful of Seeds.

Eddie’s Garden and How to Make Things Grow Susan Garland Frances Lincoln Children’s Books

Eddie plants a garden with his mum and little sister. Details like the bean‐ pole teepee and a midnight slug hunt will keep children engaged.

Farming Gail Gibbons Holiday House, Inc.

An introduction to farming and the work done on a farm throughout the seasons. Also read Gail Gibbons’ From Seed to Plant.

From the Garden: A Counting Book about Growing Food Michael Dahl

Coughlan Publishing

Counting book shows steps in harvesting vegetables to make a garden salad for dinner.

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Growing Colors Bruce McMillan


Photographs of green peas, yellow corn, red potatoes, purple beans, and other fruits and vegetables illustrate the many colors of nature.

Growing Vegetable Soup Lois Ehlert Harcourt Brace & Company

Dad plants seeds, waters, weeds, and waits for the sun to make them grow. Then they pick and dig vegetables, wash and cut them, and make soup;

includes recipe.

Harvest Year Chris Peterson Boyds Mills Press

A photographic essay about foods that are harvested year‐round in the United States. Also read Melanie Eclare’s Harvest of Color.

How a Seed Grows Helene J. Jordan HarperCollins Children's Books

Uses observations of bean seeds planted in eggshells to demonstrate the growth of seeds into plants.

Inch by Inch: The Garden Song David Mallett


Inch by inch, row by row, a child grows a garden with the help of the rain and the earth; based on a popular folksong. Also see Kurt Cyrus’ Oddhopper Opera: A Bug’s Garden of Verse.

Jody's Beans Malachy Doyle

Candlewick Press

From spring to fall with the help of her grandfather, Jody learns to plant, care, harvest, prepare, and eat some runner beans. Also read C.Z. Guest’s Tiny Green Thumbs.

One Bean Anne Rockwell Walker & Company

Describes what happens to a bean as it is soaked, planted, watered, repotted, and produces pods with more beans inside. Also read Omri Glaser’s Round the Garden.

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Our Community Garden Barbara Pollak Beyond Words

Each child plants something that reflects their personality and/or ethnic heritage. The garden harvest is celebrated by the families with a community potluck.

Scarlette Beane Karen Wallace

Dial Books for Young Readers

When family members give five‐year‐old Scarlette a garden, she succeeds in growing gigantic vegetables and creating something wonderful.

The Carrot Seed Ruth Krauss HarperCollins Children's Books

Despite everyone's negative predictions, a little boy believes the carrot seed

he plants will grow.

The Farm Isidro Sanchez and Carme Peris

Barron's Educational Series, Inc.

Explains how vegetables are grown on a farm. Includes information for parents and teachers.

The Pea Patch Jig Thacher Hurd HarperCollins Children's Books

Despite being picked with the lettuce and almost ending up in a salad, Baby Mouse refuses to stay out of Farmer Clem's garden. Also read Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

The Surprise Garden Zoe Hall Scholastic, Inc.

As the sun’s warmth brings their garden to life, small children watch the small shoots become all kinds of tasty vegetables in eye‐catching colors.

Vegetable Garden Douglas Florian Harcourt

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A family plants a vegetable garden and helps it grow to a rich harvest. Also read John Coy’s Two Old Potatoes and Me.

Great Grains

Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest Marc Brown

Little, Brown & Company

Arthur wants to enter a jingle in the cereal contest of his favorite cereal, but where will he find a tune?

From Wheat to Pasta Robert Egan Scholastic Library Publishing

Describes the steps in making various kinds of pasta from growing the wheat through shaping the final product.

Grains Robin Nelson Lerner Publishing Group

An introduction to different grain products and the part they play in a healthy diet. Also read Allan Fowler’s The Wheat We Eat.

I Like Cereal Jennifer Julius Scholastic Library Publishing

Describes cereals; part of the Welcome Books Good Food series.

Mr. Belinsky’s Bagels Ellen Schwartz Tradewind Books

When Mr. Belinsky, the bagel maker, tries making fancy cookies and cakes his customers encourage him to return to his specialty. Also read Aubrey Davis’ Bagels from Benny.

The Grain Group Mari C. Schuh, Barbara J. Rolls & Gail Saunders‐Smith

Coughlan Publishing

An introduction to eating whole grain food products, part of the Healthy Eating with My Pyramid series. Also read Amanda Rondeau’s Grains are Good.

The Three Bears Byron Barton HarperCollins

While three bears are away from home, Goldilocks ventures inside their house, tastes their porridge, tries their chairs, and finally falls asleep in Baby Bear's bed. Also see other versions of the same folktale – James Marshall’s Goldilocks and

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the Three Bear; Jan Brett’s Goldilocks and the Three Bears; and Valeri Gorbachev’s Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Lunch Time Carla's Sandwich Debbie Herman

Flashlight Press

Carla is teased by others for her creative sandwiches until she shares her lunch with someone who discovers that her quirky combinations are delicious.

Henry and Mudge and the Funny Lunch Cynthia Rylant Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing.

Mudge, the dog, looks forward to the Mother's Day surprise that Henry and his father cook up for Henry's mother. Also read Lee Harris’ Never Let Your Cat Make Lunch for You.

I Need a Lunch Box Jeanette Caines HarperCollins Children’s Books

A little boy wants for a lunch box, even though he hasn’t started school yet.

Lunch Denise Fleming


A very hungry mouse eats a large lunch comprised of colorful foods.

Lunch Munch: Step by Step Recipes Bobbie Kalman

Crabtree Publishing Company

Explores why and how to have a delicious and healthy lunch through nutrition facts and easy recipes for nourishing foods.

Never Take a Pig to Lunch Nadine Bernard Westcott

Orchard Books

Includes poems about eating silly things, about eating foods we like, about eating too much, and about manners. Also read Jack Prelutsky’ A Pizza the Size of the Sun.

The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch Ronda Armitage & David Armitage

Scholastic, Inc.

Each day Mrs. Grinling makes Mr. Grinling, the lighthouse keeper, a delicious lunch. But the greedy seagulls keep stealing the food. What is Mr. Grinling to do?

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The Lunch Box Surprise Grace Maccarone

Cartwheel

When Sam's mother forgets to pack his lunch, his friends in the first grade come to his rescue.

This Is the Way We Eat Our Lunch Edith Baer Scholastic, Inc.

Relates in rhyme what children eat in countries around the world.

Moving: Go Dance

Baby Dance Ann Taylor HarperCollins Children's Books

For babies who are responding to music and movement, here's a playful poem that has father and child dancing lovingly across the pages.

Baby Danced the Polka Karen Beaumont Dial

Books for Young Readers

It's nap time on the farm, but one un‐sleepy baby has a different plan. Read, sing, lift the flaps, do a little jig‐and‐twirl! It's a toe‐tappin', no‐nappin' good time when baby starts to dance.

Cha Cha Chimps Julia Durango Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Counting and dancing go hand in hand at Mambo Jamba's, where hippos hokey‐pokey, meerkats Macarena, and ten little chimps do the Cha Cha.

Dancing in My Bones Sylvia Andrews HarperCollins Children's Books

Children will want to dance along with the kids in this book.

Doing the Animal Bop Jan Ormerod

Barron's Educational Series, Inc.

Here comes a festival of brightly hued animals, and they all love to dance and sing! Children will want to jump and jiggle, jive and wriggle.

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Hokey Pokey Sheila Hamanaka


A lively group of people and animals dances to the lyrics and music of this popular tune.

Rap A Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles‐think of That! Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon

Blue Sky Press

This simple book for young children tells the life story of a ground‐breaking African‐American tap dancer. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson was one of the most popular entertainers of the 1920s‐30s.

Song and Dance Man Karen Ackerman

Knopf Publishing Group

Grandpa demonstrates for his visiting grandchildren some of the songs, dances, and jokes he performed when he was a vaudeville entertainer.

The Animal Boogie Debbie Harter Barefoot Books

In the jungle, the animals' toes are twitching, their bodies are wiggling, and

their wings are flapping‐‐as they teach children how to do the Animal Boogie. Also read Anita Holsonback’s Monkey See, Monkey Do.

Twist With a Burger, Jitter with a Bug Linda Lowery Houghton Mifflin Company

Illustrations and rhyming text provide a humorous look at all kinds of dancing.

Moving: Go Active

A Good Night Walk Elisha Cooper Scholastic, Inc.

At the end of the day and parent and child take a walk along their street. Because the parent and child are never seen, each child reading this can imagine himself on this nighttime stroll.

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Animal Action ABC Karen Pandell Penguin Group

Photographs and easy, rhyming text provide facts about animals and their movements for each letter of the alphabet, while delightful spot photos of young children imitating the animals' movements punctuate the action.

Bearobics: A Hip‐Hop Counting Story Vic Parker Viking Penguin

When one shaggy bear turns up the volume on his boombox, let the Bearobics begin! This irresistible counting story will have children snapping their fingers and tapping their toes.

Bumpety Bump Pat Hutchins Greenwillow

A boy helps his grandfather on the farm, showing the hen that follows them what he can do. Also read Kathy Henderson’s Bumpety Bump.

Can you Move Like an Elephant? Judy Hindley Barron's Educational Series, Inc.

Challenges kids to move like a variety of different animals.

Clap Your Hands Lorinda Bryan Cauley Penguin Young Readers Group

Rhyming text instructs the listener to find something yellow, roar like a lion, give a kiss, tell a secret, spin in a circle, and perform other playful activities.

Come Out and Play: It’s a Kids World Maya Ajmera and John D. Ivanko

Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc.

Tells how kids all around the world play.

Dem Bones Bob Barner Chronicle Books LLC

Colorful torn paper collages bring to life this classic African American spiritual. Accompanied by interesting, informative "bone facts" this book makes a wonderful addition to both home and classroom libraries

Dinosaurumpus Tony Mitton

Scholastic, Inc.

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A variety of dinosaurs enjoy an energetic romp.

Duck on a Bike David Shannon Scholastic, Inc.

A duck decides to ride a bike and soon influences all the other animals on the farm to ride bikes too.

Follow the Leader Erica Silverman


A boy guides his younger brother through a game of follow the leader‐‐until the little one insists on reversing roles.

From Head to Toe Eric Carle HarperCollins Children's Books

Encourages children to exercise by following the movements of various animals. Also read Ann Paul’s Hello Toes, Hello Feet.

Get Up and Go! Nancy Carlson Penguin Group

Encourages children to take care of their bodies with exercise.

Hop, Skip, Run Marcia Leonard

Lerner Publishing Group

Hopping, skipping, and running are fun activities. Also read Patricia Hubbell’s Bouncing Time.

I’m Walking, I’m Running, I’m Jumping, I’m Hopping Richard Harris Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.

Introduces the importance of a healthy diet and exercise.

If You’re Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands! David A. Carter

Scholastic, Inc.

A pop‐up version the popular song that encourages everyone to express their happiness through voice and movement. Also read the versions illustrated by Jane Cabrera and/or Jan Ormerod.

Ink, Wink, and Blink Work Out! Peter Whitehead

Sterling Publishing

Ink, Wink, and Blink shake their heads, touch the ground, stand up, sit

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down, and jump all around.

Jamberry Bruce Degen HarperCollins Children's Books

A little boy walking in the forest meets a big lovable bear that takes him on a delicious berry‐picking adventure in the magical world of Berryland.

Jumping Day Barbara Juster Esbensen Boyds Mills Press

A girl celebrates the joys of jumping from the moment she wakes up until it is time to jump back into bed.

Little Yoga Rebecca Whitford

Henry Holt Books for Young Readers

Toddlers will enjoy moving along with Baby as they follow the basic poses in this playful introduction to nine simple yoga exercises for young children. Also read Laurent de Brunhoff’s Babar’s Yoga for Elephants and Baron Baptisite’s My Daddy is a Pretzel.

Move! Robin Page Houghton Mifflin

Animals move! Follow them as they swing, dance, float, leap, and slide from page to page, then learn why these animals move the way they do.

Pretend You're a Cat Jean Marzollo

Penguin Young Readers Group Rhyming verses ask the reader to purr like a cat, scratch like a dog, leap like a squirrel, and bark like a seal. Also read Lindsey Gardiner’s Here Come Poppy and Max.

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear Michael Hague


An illustrated version of the traditional rhyme which follows the activities of a teddy bear.

The Busy Body Book Lizzy Rockwell Random House Children's Books

An introduction to the human body, how it functions, and its need for exercise.

Toddlerobics Zita Newcome

Candlewick Press

Toddlers have fun as they enjoy exercising. Also see by the same author

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Toddlerobics: Animal Fun and Toddlerobics: Action Rhymes.

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Michael Rosen


Brave bear hunters go through grass, a river, mud, and other obstacles before the inevitable encounter with a bear forces a headlong retreat.

Wiggle Doreen Cronin Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Rhyming text describes the many ways to wiggle.

Nutrition and the Food Pyramid

Does a Camel Cook? Fred Ehrlich Blue Apple Books

Compares the eating habits of people and animals by looking at how and where animals and people find their food, and what they do with their food once they find it.

Eating Well Lisa Trumbauer

Coughlan Publishing

Photographs and easy‐to‐read text introduce the major food groups and explain the nutritional contributions of each. Also read Melanie Mitchell’s Eating Well and Mike Gordon’s Why Should I Eat Well?

Good Enough to Eat: A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition Lizzy Rockwell HarperCollins Children's Books

Describes the six categories of nutrients needed for good health, how they work in the body, and what foods provide each.

Rotten Ralph Feels Rotten Jack Gantos Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Rotten Ralph comes to appreciate Sarah's healthy cat food after he gets sick from eating out of trash cans.

The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food Stanley Berenstain and Janice Berenstain

Random House, Inc.

Mama Bear starts a campaign to convince her family that they are eating too much junk food. Also read Anthony F. Buono’s The Race Against Junk Food.

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The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day Loreen Leedy Scott Foresman

Enter the restaurant called the Edible Pyramid and learn how to eat healthy from the food groups.

The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten: A Book About Food Chains Patricia Relf Scholastic, Inc.

Arnold and Keesha travel to the depths of the ocean and end up in the belly of a tuna and learn about the food chain.

The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body Joanna Cole Scholastic, Inc.

A special field trip on the magic school bus allows Ms. Frizzle's class to get a first‐hand look at major parts of the body and how they work. (VHS titled: The Magic School Bus for Lunch)

What Happens to a Hamburger? Paul Showers HarperCollins Children's Books

Explains the processes by which a hamburger and other foods are used to make energy, strong bones, and solid muscles as they pass through the digestive system.

Our Senses

Five for a Little One Chris Raschka Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books

A young rabbit explores the world using his five senses. If you are a bunny, try a taste, take a gander, snuffle a sniff, relish a sound, and share a hug.

My Five Senses Aliki HarperCollins Children's Books

A simple presentation of the five senses, demonstrating some ways we use them. Also read Nuria Roca’s The 5 Senses.

Our Senses Janine Scott Coughlan Publishing

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A simple introduction to the five basic senses and other senses such as balance, hunger, and thirst.

Taste (A True Book) Patricia J. Murphy Children's

Press

Explores the sense of taste and the body parts used to produce it as well as its relationship to smell. Also see Helen Frost’sTasting.

Tasting Mary Mackill Raintree

Make scientific observations as they relate to our sense of taste and learn to experiment and think about what you taste and how tasting works. Also read Maria Rius’ Taste.

Yum! Yuck! Linda Sue Park Charlesbridge Publishing, Inc.

A lift the flap book that reveals the different sounds around the world that people use for expressing themselves.

PA Agriculture, Authors, & Artists

Click Clack Moo Cows that Type Doreen Cronin Illustrated by Betsy Lewin Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Silly things start to happen when Farmer Brown’s cows decide not to give milk until they get electric blankets in the barn. Note the Illustrator lives in PA.

How Groundhog’s Garden Grew Lynne Cherry Blue Sky Press

Squirrel teaches Little Groundhog how to plant and tend a vegetable garden. Note the author lives in PA.

I Like Corn Robin Pickering Scholastic Library Publishing

Describes corn‐on‐the‐cob and several other foods made from corn.

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Milk: From Cow to Carton Aliki HarperCollins Children's Books

Briefly describes how a cow produces milk, how the milk is processed in a dairy, and how various other dairy products are made from milk. Note the author went to school in PA.

Mushroom in the Rain Mirra Ginsburg


How can an ant, butterfly, mouse, sparrow, and rabbit all take shelter from the rain under the same mushroom when originally there was room only for the ant?

The Big Honey Hunt Stanley Berenstain and Janice Berenstain Random House Children's Books

Papa Bear shows Brother Bear how a "smart" bear hunts for honey— with hilarious results! Note the authors live in PA.

The Mushroom Hunt Simon Frazer

Candlewick Press

This book teaches how mushrooms grow and reproduce from spores. Provides readers with general information about mushrooms and also discusses specifics of several different types of mushrooms.

The Pumpkin Fair Eve Bunting, Illustrated by Eileen Christelow Houghton Mifflin Company

A pumpkin wins a prize for "the best‐loved pumpkin at the fair, the best‐ loved pumpkin anywhere." Also read Anne Rockwell’s Apples and Pumpkins (2 common crops grown in PA) and for kindergarten and early elementary

children read PA author, Peter Catalanotto’s No More Pumpkins.

Note the illustrator went to school in PA.

Two Eggs, Please. Sarah Weeks, Illustrated by Betsy Lewin


A look at the many different ways to prepare the very same food, as everyone in a diner orders eggs. Note the Illustrator lives in PA.

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Picnics: Go Eat in the Great Outdoors

McDuff Saves the Day Rosemary Wells

Hyperion Books for Children

McDuff and his family go to the lake for a Fourth of July picnic, but when ants consume all of their food it's up to McDuff to find something for them to eat.

Monster Math Picnic Grace Maccarone

Scholastic, Inc.

The number of monsters engaged in various activities at a picnic always adds up to ten. Includes related activities. Also read Elinor Pinczes's One Hundred Hungry Ants.

Mr. Putter and Tabby Row the Boat Cynthia Rylant Harcourt Children's Books

On a hot summer day, Mr. Putter, his cat, Tabby, their neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, and her dog, Zeke, go for a picnic and a rowboat ride. Also read

Diane Goode’s The Most Perfect Spot and Gabrielle Vincent’s Ernest and Celestine's Picnic.

Teddy Bears' Picnic Jimmy Kennedy


Based on a song about teddy bears picnicking independently of their "owners." Also read Bruce Whatley’s Teddy Bears' Picnic and/or Abigail Darling and Alexandra Day’s Teddy Bears’ Picnic Cookbook.

The Beastly Feast Bruce Goldstone Henry Holt & Company, Inc.

All sorts of animals bring a variety of foods to share at a picnic.

The Stray Dog Marc Simon


A family adopts a stray dog they meet while picnicking at the park. Also read Emily Arnold McCully’s Picnic.

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We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past Jacqueline Woodson


A young girl describes her various relatives and the foods they bring to the annual family picnic. Also read Sook Nyul Choi’s Halmoni and the Picnic.

Shopping

A Fruit and Vegetable Man Roni Schotter ipicturebooks.com.

Every day Ruby Rubenstein picks out the very best fruits and vegetables for his store and arranges them in beautiful rows and pyramids of color. But one day, Ruby is sick. Luckily, he had been showing young Sun Ho how to choose the best produce, arrange it, and work the cash register.

A Visit to the Supermarket B. A. Hoena Coughlan Publishing

Go behind the scenes and discover what happens during a typical day at the supermarket. Learn about supermarket workers, the tools they use, and the departments in which they work. Also read David Heath’s The Supermarket and Angela Leeper’s The Grocery Store.

Bebe Goes Shopping Susan Middleton Elya

Voyager Books

Rhyming text describes a trip to the grocery store for mama and baby; includes glossary of the Spanish words.

Don’t Forget the Bacon Pat Hutchins HarperTrophy

A little boy goes grocery shopping for his mother and tries to remember the shopping list. Also read Chih‐Yuan Chen’s On My Way to Buy Eggs.

Farmers’ Market Paul Brett Johnson Orchard Books

On Saturdays in the summer, Laura goes with her family to help sell their produce at the farmers' market and spend a time with her friend Betsy. Also read Marcie R. Rendon and Cheryl Walsh Bellville’s Farmer's Market: Families Working Together and Deborah Uchill Miller’s Fins and Scales: A Kosher Tale.

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Good Food DeMar Reggier

Scholastic

A boy tells the story of shopping with his dad to make dinner for his mother.

Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher Molly Bang


The strawberry snatcher tries to take the grey lady’s strawberries, but as he follows her, he finds some delicious blackberries instead.

Maisy Goes Shopping Lucy Cousins Candlewick

Maisy makes a trip to the grocery store to buy goodies for lunch.

Mrs. Pig’s Bulk Buy Mary Rayner

Simon & Schuster Children’s

The piglets are delighted when Mrs. Pig stocks up on ketchup, their favorite food, until they realize it is all they will be eating.

Supermarket Charlotte Doyle Candlewick Press

This book uses 46 words to tell the story of a toddler who turns a simple grocery shopping trip into a messy misadventure.

The Little Old Man Who Could Not Read Irma Simonton Black

Methuen Young Books

A toy maker decides it is time to learn to read, after a bad experience trying to buy his favorite foods without being able to read the package labels.

To Market, To Market Anne Miranda

Harcourt

Begins with the nursery rhyme and then goes on to describe a series of unruly animals that prevent the narrator from cooking lunch. Also read Lois Ehlert’s Market Day.

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Table Manners for Tots

Cleversticks Bernard Ashley Crown Books for Young Readers

Ling Sung shows his new classmates how to use chopsticks.

Froggy Eats Out Jonathan London Penguin Group

After Froggy misbehaves at a fancy restaurant, his parents take him to a fast flies restaurant to celebrate their anniversary. Also read Mercer Mayer’s Frog Goes to Dinner, a wordless picture book.

How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? Jane Yolen Scholastic, Inc.

Just like kids, dinosaurs have a difficult time learning to behave at the table. Also read Chris Raschka and Vladimir Radunsky’s Table Manners.

It’s a Spoon, Not a Shovel! Caralyn Buehner Puffin

A funny quiz with the answers in the pictures, helps children think about manners.

Pass the Fritters, Critters Cheryl Chapman


Hungry animals passing food during a meal learn that "please" is a magic word. Also read Jan Slepian and Ann Seidler’s The Hungry Thing.

Sheep Out to Eat Nancy Shaw Houghton Mifflin Company

Some hungry sheep discover that a teashop may not be the best place for them to eat. Also read Margaret Rey and Alan Shallek’s Curious George Goes to a Restaurant.

The Cat Who Came for Tacos Diana Star Helmer

Albert Whitman & Co

Señor Tomas and Señora Rosa welcome a stray cat into their home, but they insist that the cat use proper table manners when they have fish tacos.

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Time to Say “Please”! Mo Willems


Mice show that it is helpful to say "Please," "Thank you," "Excuse me," and "I’m sorry." Also read Karen Katz’s Excuse Me!

What Do You Say, Dear? Sesyle Joslin HarperCollins Children's Books

Silly scenes provide advice on manners.

Try Something New: Go with a Healthy Choice

A Tasting Party Jane Belk Moncure

Child's World

Flowers, leaves, seeds, roots, fruits, dairy foods, and meats are sampled at different types of food tasting parties.

D.W. the Picky Eater Marc Brown

Little, Brown & Company

D.W. is a fussy eater, so her parents decide to leave her home with the babysitter the next time they go out to eat.

Eat Up, Gemma Sarah Hayes HarperCollins Children's Books

Baby Gemma refuses to eat and makes a mess with her breakfast, until her brother gets an inspired idea. Also read Rosemary Wells’ Max’s Breakfast.

Eat Your Peas, Louise Pegeen Snow Scholastic Library Publishing

Louise is given all sorts of reasons for eating her peas. Also read Kes Gray’s Eat Your Peas.

Gladys Goes Out for Lunch Derek Anderson Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Gladys, a gorilla at the zoo, only wants to eat bananas for every meal until she smells something delicious; includes banana bread recipe.

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Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss Random House, Inc.

Sam‐I‐am tries to get a picky eater to taste green eggs and ham. Also see Georgeanne Brennan’s Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook.

Gregory, the Terrible Eater Mitchell Sharmat

Scholastic, Inc.

A picky eater, Gregory the goat refuses the usual goat diet of shoes and tin cans in favor of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and orange juice.

I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato Lauren Child Candlewick Press

A fussy eater decides to sample the carrots after her brother convinces her that they are really orange twiglets from Jupiter.

Little Pea Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Chronicle Books LLC

Little Pea hates eating candy for dinner, but his parents will not let him have his spinach dessert until he cleans his plate.

Victor Vito and Freddie Vasco: Two Polar Bears on a Mission to Save the Klondike Cafe! Laurie Berkner Scholastic, Inc.

Based on a song, Victor and Freddie take a road trip to find new recipes for their restaurant. Also read Alexandra Day’s Frank and Ernest.

Yoko Rosemary Wells

Hyperion Press

When Yoko brings sushi to school for lunch, her classmates make fun of what she eats‐‐until one of them tries it for himself.

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Variety of Vegetables

Blue Potatoes, Orange Tomatoes Rosalind Creasy Sierra Club Books for Children

Describes how to plant and grow a variety of colorful vegetables, including red corn, yellow watermelons, and multicolored radishes.

Corn is Maize: The Gift of the Indians Aliki HarperCollins Children's Books

Describes how corn was discovered, used by the Indians, and how it became an important food in the world. Also read Mary‐Joan Gerson’s People of the Corn and Jim Arnosky’s Raccoons and Ripe Corn.

Latkes, Latkes, Good to Eat Naomi Howland

Clarion Books

Sadie and her brothers are hungry until an old woman gives Sadie a magic frying pan that will make potato pancakes; includes recipe. Also read Malka Penn’s The Miracle of the Potato Latkes.

Night of the Veggie Monster George McClements

Bloomsbury Publishing

Every Tuesday night, while his parents try to enjoy their dinner, a boy turns into a monster the moment a pea touches his lips.

No More Vegetables! Nicole Rubel Farrar, Straus and Giroux

When a young girl demands "No more vegetables," her mother agrees as long as Ruthie helps in the vegetable garden.

Oliver’s Vegetables Vivian French Orchard Books

While visiting his grandfather, Oliver learns to eat vegetables other than potatoes. Also read John Coy’s Two Old Potatoes and Me.

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The Cabbage Soup Solution Erika Oller Penguin Young Readers Group

One night, half of Elsie’s cabbages disappear, but her cats find a way to make things right. Also read Clare Beaton’s There’s a Cow in the Cabbage Patch; Leo Lionni’s The Biggest House in the World; and Chérie B. Stihler’s The Giant Cabbage.

The Giant Carrot Jan Peck and Barry Root Dial Books for Young Readers

Isabelle surprises her family with her unique way of growing a carrot; includes a recipe for carrot pudding.

The Gigantic Turnip Aleksei Tolstoy Barefoot Books

A Russian tale where a farmer and his wife need the help of animals in order to pull up a turnip. Also read Laura Rader’s Grow, Little Turnip, Grow Big or Denia Lewis Hester’s Grandma Lena's Big Ol' Turnip.

The Talking Vegetables Won‐Ldy Paye

Henry Holt and Co.

Spider refuses to help with the garden, but when he wants to pick some vegetables, imagine his surprise when they start talking!

The Ugly Vegetables Grace Lin Charlesbridge Publishing

A girl thinks her mother's garden is the ugliest in the neighborhood until she discovers that flowers might look and smell pretty, but Chinese vegetable soup smells best of all; includes a recipe.

The Vegetable Show Laurie Krasny Brown Little Brown & Co.

A host of animated vegetables introduce children to the basics of healthy eating while performing circus acts.

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The Victory Garden Vegetable Alphabet Book Jerry Palotta and Bob Thomson Tandem Library

Describes a variety of terms, from A to Z, relating to vegetable gardening, beginning with asparagus and ending with zucchetta.

Vegetable Dreams/Huerto sonado Dawn Jeffers Raven Tree Press

Erin and her elderly neighbor become friends while they work together taking care of a garden.

Vegetable Friends Tony Lawlor and Bruce Kociemba

Toy Box Productions

The Vegetable Friends share rhymes about vegetables. Also read Christopher King’s Vegetables Go to Bed.

Vegetables Robin Nelson Lerner Publishing Group

An introduction to different vegetables and the part they play in a healthy diet. Also see Gail Gibbons’ The Vegetables We Eat.

Resources for Parents and Educators

Authors in the Kitchen Sharron L. McElmeel and Deborah L. McElmeel

Libraries Unlimited

Favorite recipes from 50 children’s authors and illustrators. Also see by the same authors Authors in the Pantry.

Do Carrots Make You See Better? Julie Appleton, Nadine McCrea, and Carla Patterson Gryphon House

Practical food learning experiences for children from birth‐8 about food and nutrition through play, reading, science activities, games, and more. Also see Debby Cryer, Adele Ray, and Thelma Harms’ Nutrition Activities for Preschoolers.

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Fabulous Food: 25 Songs and Over 300 Activities for Young Children Pam Schiller

Gryphon House

A book and CD set with 25 songs and 300 activities to help children appreciate food. Also see Pam Schiller and Thomas Moore’s Do You Know the Muffin Man?

Fairy Tale Feasts Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple

Crocodile Books

Folktales with food themes are paired with recipes. Also see Sandre Moore’s The Fairy Tale Cookbook.

Food To Grow And Learn On Grace E. Bickert Incentive Publications, Inc.

Recipes and learning activities for parents, teachers, and young children. The lessons link to holidays, celebrations, and important topics such as safety. Also see Dianne Warren and Susan S. Jones’ Vegetable Soup.

Happy Times Together Jo England Hardie Grant Books

A collection of educational and inexpensive activities to inspire kids to brainstorm, create, laugh, cook, and party. Each theme is accompanied by kid‐friendly recipes that are delicious, nutritious, and easy to make.

Healthy Me: Fun Ways to Develop Good Health and Safety Habits Michelle O'Brien‐Palmer

Chicago Review Press, Incorporated

Kids learn all about health and safety through more than 70 fun and creative experiments, projects, and recipes for ages 5‐8.

Movement‐Based Learning Rhonda L. Clements and Sharon L. Schneider National Association for Sport & Physical Education

This book features noncompetitive challenges that illuminate age‐ and stage‐ appropriate academic concepts for children ages three‐eight. Also see Rae Pica’s Jump into Literacy.

Snacktivities!: 50 Edible Activities For Parents and Children MaryAnn F. Kohl and Jean Potter Gryphon House

Fifty easy‐to‐prepare snack ideas that use all food groups.

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Fabulous Food: 25 Songs and Over 300 Activities for Young Children Pam Schiller

Gryphon House

A book and CD set with 25 songs and 300 activities to help children appreciate food. Also see Pam Schiller and Thomas Moore’s Do You Know the Muffin Man?

Fairy Tale Feasts Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple

Crocodile Books

Folktales with food themes are paired with recipes. Also see Sandre Moore’s The Fairy Tale Cookbook.

Food To Grow And Learn On Grace E. Bickert Incentive Publications, Inc.

Recipes and learning activities for parents, teachers, and young children. The lessons link to holidays, celebrations, and important topics such as safety. Also see Dianne Warren and Susan S. Jones’ Vegetable Soup.

Happy Times Together Jo England Hardie Grant Books

A collection of educational and inexpensive activities to inspire kids to brainstorm, create, laugh, cook, and party. Each theme is accompanied by kid‐friendly recipes that are delicious, nutritious, and easy to make.

Healthy Me: Fun Ways to Develop Good Health and Safety Habits Michelle O'Brien‐Palmer

Chicago Review Press, Incorporated

Kids learn all about health and safety through more than 70 fun and creative experiments, projects, and recipes for ages 5‐8.

Movement‐Based Learning Rhonda L. Clements and Sharon L. Schneider National Association for Sport & Physical Education

This book features noncompetitive challenges that illuminate age‐ and stage‐ appropriate academic concepts for children ages three‐eight. Also see Rae Pica’s Jump into Literacy.

Snacktivities!: 50 Edible Activities For Parents and Children MaryAnn F. Kohl and Jean Potter Gryphon House

Fifty easy‐to‐prepare snack ideas that use all food groups.

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Storybook Stew: Cooking with Books Kids Love Suzanne Barchers and Peter Rauen Fulcrum Publishing

Fifty recipes for different meals, each recipe accompanied by a summary of a featured book and a suggested activity. Also see by the same authors Holiday Storybook Stew.

The Cooking Book: Fostering Young Children's Learning and Delight Laura J. Colker National Association for the Education of Young Children

A variety of classroom‐tested recipes to use with young children throughout the day—from individual and small group recipes to art and science recipes.

Writers in the Kitchen Tricia Gardella Boyds Mills Press

150 of the favorite recipes of authors and illustrators of children’s books. Also see Karen Greene’s Once Upon a Recipe.

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Alphabetical Booklist 10 Red Apples Hutchins

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A Bear for Breakfast King A Big Cheese for the White House Fleming A Book of Fruit Lember A Day at the Playground Schrand A Fruit and Vegetable Man Schotter A Gardener’s Alphabet Azarian A Good Night Walk Cooper A Taste of Honey Wallace A Tasting Party Moncure A Turkey for Thanksgiving Bunting A Visit to the Supermarket Hoena Allie the Allergic Elephant Smith Alligator Arrived with Apples Dragonwagon Alphabet Cooking Magee Alphabet Soup Banks Alphabet Soup Gustafson Alphabite! Reasoner & Hardt An Alphabet Salad Schuette An Apple a Day! Gillis And the Good Brown Earth Henderson Animal Action ABC Pandell Anna’s Garden Songs Steele Apple Fractions Palotta Apples and Honey Holub Apples to Oregon Hopkinson Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest Brown Authors in the Kitchen McElmeel & McElmeel

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Baby Dance Taylor Baby Danced the Polka Beaumont Bearobics Parker Bebe Goes Shopping Elya Bee‐Bim Bop! Park Big Red Apple Johnston Blue Moon Soup Goss Blue Potatoes, Orange Tomatoes Creasy Blueberries for Sal McCloskey Blueberry Shoe Dixon Bread and Jam for Frances Hoban Bread Comes to Life Levenson Bread is for Eating Gershator Bread, Bread, Bread Morris

Bumpety Bump Hutchins

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Can you Move Like an Elephant? Hindley Carla's Sandwich Herman Carrot Soup Segal Cha Cha Chimps Durango Chato's Kitchen Soto Cherries and Cherry Pits Williams Chicken Soup with Rice Sendak Chicken Sunday Polacco Chop, Simmer, Season Brandenberg City Green Di Salvo‐Ryan Clams All Year Cocca‐Leffler Clap Your Hands Cauley Cleversticks Ashley Click Clack Moo Cows that Type Cronin Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Barrett Come Out and Play Ajmera & Ivanko Cooking Art Kohl & Potter Cooking Rocks! Ray Cooking with Herb Bass Corn is Maize Aliki Cow Older Cup Cooking Johnson & Plemons

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D.W. the Picky Eater Brown Daddy Makes the Best Spaghetti Hines Dancing in My Bones Andrews Dem Bones Barner Dinosaurumpus Mitton Do Carrots Make You See Better? Appleton, McCrea, & Patterson Does a Camel Cook? Ehrlich Doing the Animal Bop Ormerod Don’t Forget the Bacon Hutchins Duck on a Bike Shannon Duck Soup Urbanovic Dumpling Soup Rattigan

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Eat Up, Gemma Hayes Eat Your Peas Louise Snow

Eating Swain Eating the Alphabet Ehlert Eating Well Trumbauer Eddie’s Garden Garland Eggbert the Slightly Cracked Egg Ross Everybody Bakes Bread Dooley Everybody Brings Noodles Dooley Everybody Cooks Rice Dooley Extra Cheese, Please! Peterson

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Fabulous Food Schiller Fairy Tale Feasts Yolen & Stemple Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia Garza Farmers’ Market Johnson Farming Gibbons Feast for 10 Falwell Fed Up! Barron First Book of Sushi Sanger First the Egg Seeger Five for a Little One Raschka Follow the Leader Silverman Food for Thought Elffers & Freymann Food To Grow And Learn On Bickert Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke Edwards Froggy Eats Out London From Head to Toe Carle From the Garden Dahl From Wheat to Pasta Egan Fruit Brougoing & Jeunesse Fruits Bodach Fruits and Vegetables/Frutas y Vegetales Rosa‐Mendoza

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George Washington's Breakfast Fritz Get Up and Go! Carlson Get Well Good Knight Thomas Gladys Goes Out for Lunch Anderson Good Enough to Eat Rockwell Good Food Reggier Grains Nelson Green Eggs and Ham Seuss Gregory, the Terrible Eater Sharmat Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher Bang

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Growing Colors McMillan Growing Vegetable Soup Ehlert

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Hamburger Heaven Yee Happy Times Together England Harvest Year Peterson Healthy Me O'Brien‐Palmer Healthy Snacks for Kids Warner Healthy Treats Warner Henry and Mudge and the Funny Lunch Rylant Hey, Pancakes! Weston Hokey Pokey Hamanaka Hop, Skip, Run Leonard How a Seed Grows Jordan How Are You Peeling? Elffers & Freymann How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? Yolen How Groundhog’s Garden Grew Cherry How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? McNamara

How My Parents Learned to Eat

Friedman How to Make Apple Pie and See the World Priceman

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I Am An Apple Marzollo I Like Bagels Pickering I Like Cereal Julius I Like Cheese Pickering I Like Corn Pickering I like Pasta Julius I Lost My Tooth in Africa Diakite I Need a Lunch Box Caines I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato Child I’m Walking, I’m Running, I’m Jumping, I’m Hopping Harris Icy Watermelon Galindo If You Give a Moose a Muffin Numeroff If You Give a Pig a Pancake Numeroff If You’re Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands! Carter In a Pumpkin Shell Gillis In My Momma’s Kitchen Nolen In the Night Kitchen Sendak Inch by Inch Mallett Ink, Wink, and Blink Work Out! Whitehead It’s a Spoon, Not a Shovel! Buehner It's Pumpkin Time! Hall

J Jamberry Degen Jody's Beans Doyle

Jumping Day Esbensen June 29, 1999 Wiesner Just Us Women Caines

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Kids Cook 1‐2‐3 Gold Kids’ First Cookbook American Cancer Society Kiss the Cow Root Kosher by Design Fishbein

L Latkes and Applesauce Manushkin Latkes, Latkes, Good to Eat Howland Lemons Are Not Red Seeger Let’s Eat! Zamorano Little Nino’s Pizzeria Barbour Little Pea Rosenthal Little Yoga Whitford Lunch Fleming Lunch Munch Kalman

M Maisy Goes Shopping Cousins Mama Panya's Pancakes Chamberlin McDuff Saves the Day Wells Mice and Beans Ryan Milk Aliki Monster Math Picnic Maccarone More Spaghetti, I Say Gelman Move! Page Movement‐Based Learning Clements &. Schneider Mr. Belinsky’s Bagels Schwartz Mr. Putter and Tabby Pick the Pears Rylant Mr. Putter and Tabby Row the Boat Rylant Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present Zolatow Mrs. Fickle's Pickles Ries Mrs. Pig’s Bulk Buy Rayner Mushroom in the Rain Ginsburg My First Kwanzaa Book Chocolate My Five Senses Aliki My Mom Loves Me More Than Sushi Gomes

N Never Take a Pig to Lunch Westcott Night of the Veggie Monster McClements

No More Vegetables! Rubel Now We Can Have a Wedding DiSalvo‐Ryan Nuts to You! Ehlert

O Old Black Fly Aylesworth Oliver’s Fruit Salad French Oliver’s Milkshake French Oliver’s Vegetables French On Top of Spaghetti Johnson One Bean Rockwell One Grain of Rice Demi One Potato Pomeroy One Watermelon Seed Lottridge Orange Pear Apple Bear Gravett Our Community Garden Pollak Our Senses Scott

P Pancakes, Pancakes! Eric Carle Pass the Fritters, Critters Cheryl Chapman Peanut Butter and Jelly Westcott Picking Apples & Pumpkins Hutchings & Hutchings Pizza at Sally’s Wellington Pizza for the Queen Castaldo Pizza Party! Maccarone Play With Your Food Elffers & Freymann Popcorn Moran Popcorn at the Palace McCully Popcorn! Landau Possum Magic Fox Potluck Shelby Pretend Soup Katzen & Henderson Pretend You're a Cat Marzollo Pumpkin Circle Levenson Pumpkin Fiesta Yacowitz Pumpkin Soup Cooper Pumpkin, Pumpkin Titherington Pumpkins Robbins

R Rap A Tap Tap Dillon & Dillon Rice Is Life Gelman Rotten Ralph Feels Rotten Gantos Run Away Rice Cake Compestine

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Salad People Katzen Saturday Sancocho Torres Scarlette Beane Wallace Scrambled Eggs Super! Seuss Sheep Out to Eat Shaw Snacktivities! Kohl & Potter Snipp, Snapp, Snurr and the Buttered Bread Lindman Someone’s in the Kitchen with Mommy Magee Song and Dance Man Ackerman Spaghetti and Meatballs for All Burns Spaghetti Eddie Sanangelo Still‐Life Stew Pittman Stone Soup Brown Stop That Pickle Armour Story of Noodles Compestine Storybook Stew Barchers & Rauen Strega Nona dePaola Sun Bread Kleven Supermarket Doyle

T Taste Murphy Tasting Mackill Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear Hague Teddy Bears' Picnic Kennedy Thanks to Cows Fowler The ABCs of Fruits and Vegetables and Beyond Charney, Goldbeck, & Larson The Animal Boogie Harter The Apple Pie that Papa Baked Thompson The Apple Pie Tree Hall The Beastly Feast Goldstone The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food Berenstain & Berenstain The Berenstain Bears Cook‐it Berenstain & Berenstain The Big Honey Hunt Berenstain and Berenstain The Biggest Pumpkin Ever Kroll The Busy Body Book Rockwell The Cabbage Soup Solution Oller The Carrot Seed Krauss The Cat Who Came for Tacos Helmer The Cooking Book Colker The Edible Pyramid Leedy The Farm Sanchez & Peris The First Strawberry Bruchac The Funny Little Woman Mosel The Giant Carrot Peck & Root The Gigantic Turnip Tolstoy The Grain Group Schuh, Rolls & Saunders‐Smith The Kid‐Friendly Food Allergy

Cookbook Hammond & Rominger The Kids Multicultural Cookbook Cook & Kline The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch Armitage & Armitage The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear Wood & Wood The Little Old Man Who Could Not Read Black The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza Sturges The Lunch Box Surprise Maccarone The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten Relf The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body Cole The Milk Makers Gibbons The Mother Goose Cookbook Mayer The Mushroom Hunt Frazer The Paper Crane Bang The Pea Patch Jig Hurd The Peanut Butter Jam Nassau The Peanut‐Free Café Koster The Popcorn Book dePaola The Popcorn Dragon Jane Thayer The Popcorn Shop Low The Pumpkin Blanket Zagwyn The Pumpkin Fair Bunting The Relatives Came Rylant The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree Gibbons The Spatulatta Cookbook Gerasole & Gerasole The Story of Johnny Appleseed Aliki The Stray Dog Simon The Surprise Garden Hall The Talking Vegetables Paye The Three Bears Barton The Tortilla Factory Paulsen The U.S. History Cookbook D’amico & Drummond The Ugly Vegetables Lin The Vegetable Show Brown The Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle The Victory Garden Vegetable Alphabet Book Palotta & Thomson There’s a Chef in My World! Lagasse This Is the Way We Eat Our Lunch Baer Time to Say “Please”! Willems To Market, To Market Miranda

Today is Monday Carle Toddlerobics Newcome Tomatoes to Ketchup Snyder Tony’s Bread de Paola Too Many Tamales Soto Twist With a Burger, Jitter with a Bug Lowery Two Eggs, Please. Weeks

V Vegetable Dreams/Huerto sonado Jeffers Vegetable Friends Lawlor & Kociemba Vegetable Garden Florian Vegetables Nelson Victor Vito and Freddie Vasco! Berkner

W Walter the Baker Carle Watch out for Chicken Feet in Your Soup dePaola We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past Woodson We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Rosen We're Making Breakfast for Mother Neitzel Weslandia Fleischman What Do You Say, Dear? Joslin What Happens to a Hamburger? Showers What’s for Lunch? Banana Robson What’s for Lunch? Rice Robson Where Does Food Come From? Rotner Wiggle Cronin Writers in the Kitchen Gardella

Y Yoko Wells Yum! Yuck! Park Yummers! Marshall

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Introduction to Family Activity Guides For Early Childhood Educators

Background Information The Family Activity Guides were developed as a supplement to the Keystone Kids Go! Keystone Color Me Healthy project. Since 2002, the Keystone Color Me Healthy Project has continually strived to locate and develop resources related to preschool nutrition and physical activity in our ever changing society. Since families have the greatest impact on children and the choices they make, we felt it was important to develop fun, interactive, and educational family related activities to help children make healthy choices.

Guide Components The Family Activity Guides are seasonally based and address nutrition and physical activity choices related to each season. In each guide, you will find: Munch, The Funny Bone, Words…Words…Words, Fun Facts, Move, and a Reflections sheet.

Munch investigates a seasonal food and information related to it in conjunctionwith a sampling session.

The Funny Bone shares a fun joke related to the featured food. Words…Words…Words features some words for parents to introduce to

their child. Fun Facts addresses interesting facts about the featured food. Move encourages families to step away from the TV, computer, and video

games, use their thinking skills and increase movement. The Reflections sheet gives families an opportunity to share about their

experience, including what they liked and what they would change. Thesheet also serves as documentation for programs who record parent and childactivity hours.

Tips for Sharing with Families Please read over each guide and become familiar with its contents before sharing with families. The following is what we consider to be important information to discuss with them.

Munch: Reiterate how important it is to wash (and rub with your hands) all fruitsand vegetables in cold water (no soap) before consuming, even if they sayprewashed. Fruits and vegetables have been well handled and may havebacteria (salmonella, e coli, etc.), pesticides, herbicides, and dirt on them. It isalso important to wash fruits and vegetables that you will be removing the skinfrom (orange, banana, potato, etc.). It is best to wash right before preparing andnot ahead of time.

The Funny Bone: The jokes may appear to be above the understanding of somechildren. This should not discourage parents from sharing them. Children in thepreschool years are learning about jokes and even if they do not totallyunderstand, they are learning valuable information about how jokes work. Jokeshelp boost language development (increase vocabulary), promote thinking skills,and foster social skill development. Through jokes, children learn that words can

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have more than one meaning, words can be played with and jokes usually have two parts and involve two or more people. Children will practice telling jokes which may seem like nonsense, but we should laugh anyway.

Words… Words… Words: These words may seem a little “advanced” forchildren, but keep in mind that we are not expecting them to start using them(although they might ☺). To help children become good readers and understandand remember what they have read, it is very important that they know as manywords as possible. As families do the activities they should try to incorporate thewords, and when appropriate, talk about what they mean. By doing this, parentscan help increase their child’s vocabulary.

Move: The activity may not be able to be done exactly as mentioned. Familiesare encouraged to make any changes to best suit their needs and abilities.

Using the Family Activity Guides The Family Activity Guides align wonderfully with the Keystone Color Me Healthy materials. If you participated in a Keystone Color Me Healthy professional development opportunity, you will have those materials on hand. If not, visit the PA Keys website to locate a session near you. The website can be found at www.pakeys.org.

The following are examples of how you can incorporate the Family Activity Guides in your program. Remember that you do not need to limit yourself to the ideas mentioned. Be creative and modify to best suit the needs of the families you are working with.

Family Fun Night: Activities can be sampled at a family fun night. Families willbe inspired to take the guides home and do more activities.

Parent Workshop: The guides can be the focus of a parent workshop. Thiswould give parents an opportunity to try the activities out and plan forimplementation at home. If you have internet access, you may consider havingparents look up the Keystone Kids Go! website or some of the other internetresources mentioned in this handout.

Home Visit: The guides could be featured on a home visit.

Note… For programs that document experiences and count Parent Education, Interactive Literacy Activity and/or Early Childhood hours, the Reflections sheet will be useful.

Additional Resources These materials can be used with other Color Me Healthy parent newsletters and nutrition and physical activity resources available at: http://www.colormehealthy.com/index.html.

Nibbles for Health was developed for child care center staff and parents of young children enrolled in child care centers. Nibbles has been updated and the CD offers child care center staff guidance on conducting discussions with parents in four sharing sessions. It also has 40 reproducible parent newsletters that address many of the challenges they face. Materials can be downloaded or ordered from the USDA website at: http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Resources/nibbles.html.

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Introduction to Family Activity Guides For Parents

What are the Family Activity Guides? The Family Activity Guides were created by the Keystone Kids Go! Keystone Color Me Healthy project. Since 2002, Keystone Kids Go! has focused on helping families make healthier choices. You are the most important teacher in your child’s life. These guides will give you fun learning activities to do with your children that will teach them about healthy choices.

There are four Family Activity Guides: one for winter, spring, summer, and fall. Each guide talks about nutrition and activities you can do related to that time of year.

What will you find in the Family Activity Guides? In each guide, you will find: Munch, The Funny Bone, Words…Words…Words, Fun Facts, Move, and a Reflections sheet.

Munch looks at a seasonal food. You will also find an activity to do with thefeatured food.

The Funny Bone shares a fun joke about the featured food. Words…Words…Words gives some words for you to use when talking to your

child. Fun Facts gives interesting facts about the featured food. Move encourages your family to step away from the TV, computer, and video

games, use their thinking skills, and move. The Reflections sheet gives you an opportunity to share about your experience.

What did you like? What would you change?

Things to think about… Munch: It is important to wash all fruits and vegetables before eating them, even

if they say “prewashed.” Use cold water. Rub with your hands. Do not usesoap. Fruits and vegetables have been touched by many hands. They mayhave bacteria, dirt and chemicals on them. Even wash fruits and vegetables thatyou will be removing the skin from (orange, banana, potato, etc.). It is best towash them right before eating them.

The Funny Bone: Your child may not understand the joke at first. Read themanyway! Young children are learning about jokes even if they do not reallyunderstand them. They are learning about how jokes work. Jokes help childrenlearn new words and encourage thinking skills. Jokes help children be “social.”They also teach children that words can have more than one meaning and youcan “play” with words. Children learn that jokes usually have two parts andinvolve two or more people. They will practice telling jokes which may not makesense, but we should laugh anyway.

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Words… Words… Words: These words may seem “big” for your child. Keep in mind that we do not expect them to start using these words (although they might ☺). To help children become good readers, and understand and remember what they have read, it is very important that they know as many words as possible. As you do the activities with your children, try to use the words. When you think it is a good idea, also talk about what they mean. By doing this, you will increase your child’s vocabulary. What a wonderful thing!

Move: Be creative! You do not have to do this activity exactly like the guide says. You know your child best. Change things to meet their needs and abilities.

Websites to check out… Color Me Healthy parent newsletters will give you lots of ideas about healthy eating and activity habits. Check them out at: http://www.colormehealthy.com/index.html.

Nibbles for Health was made for child care center staff and parents of young children. Visit their website for parent newsletters that may help you with common challenges parents face. Materials can be found at: http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Resources/nibbles.html.

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Waltz into Winter

A Family Activity Guide

Be on the LOOkout for...

Munch: Yummy ideas and information about oranges

Move: Fun reasons to turn off the TV and computer and move

Laugh: The Funny Bone—Guaranteed to make you chuckle

Learn: Learn new vocabulary with Words… Words… Words

Waltz into Winter: A Family Activity Guide was developed as a supplement to the Keystone Kids

Go! Keystone Color Me Healthy project.

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Munch...

Oranges are in their prime in the winter months

and are a great way to get Vitamin C. Vitamin

C helps protect your children from colds.

Let your child help you peel an orange. Wash

the orange in cold water before beginning. You

may have to get it started for them. This helps

them develop their fine motor skills which help

them write and color. Predict how many seg-

ments there are and then pull apart and count.

Talk about how the orange feels, weighs, smells,

and looks.

The Funny Bone

Question: What is orange and sounds like a parrot?

Answer: A carrot

Words... Words... Words

Navel: another name for belly button

Prime: the best

Segments: separate pieces

Waltz: a dance

For more information about fruits and vegetables,

visit: www.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org

Fun Orange Facts

Did you know…

An orange seed is

called a “pip.”

Florida grows more

oranges than any other

state.

Navel oranges got their

name from the belly

button-like spot on their

bottom.

Christopher Columbus

brought the first seeds

to the Americas on his

second trip in 1493.

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Move…

Chilly winter days can make it hard to get outside and play. Why not build an

inside fort with your child? Not only will it keep them busy and active, it will

help them use their imaginations.

Fort Cabin Fever

1. Clean out an area around a couch, chair, table or bed.

2. Using pillows, sheets, blankets, etc., build a fort to hide and play in.

3. Talk to your children about what other things they might need. What could

be used for a doorbell? What could a pillow be used for?

4. To work off some energy, you could jump, skip, or hop around the fort.

Here are some things around the house that you can add… Books or magazines Flashlight

Notepad and crayons Stuffed animals

Healthy snacks (hmmm… what about an orange?)

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Waltz into Winter Reflections You are the most important teacher in your child’s life!

As a family, we… (circle which ones you did)

☺ Peeled and ate an orange

☺ Predicted and counted the number of segments

☺ Read The Funny Bone

☺ Talked about the Fun Orange Facts

☺ Built Fort Cabin Fever

Anything else?

Our favorite activity in this guide was…

The activity would have been better if…

Family Names:

Date:

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Step into Spring



Munch: Yummy ideas and information about strawberries




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Munch...

Strawberries can be found in the grocery store

in early spring, but in late spring you can find

some that were grown near you. Strawberries

make a great snack. They are low-fat,

low-calorie, and have lots of Vitamin C.

Have strawberries for a snack. Talk about the

seeds on the outside. Wash the strawberries in

cold water. Cut a strawberry in half and talk

about what you see. Mix some strawberries

into a bowl of vanilla yogurt for a healthy

strawberry sundae.

The Funny Bone

Question: What do you call a sad strawberry?

Answer: A “blue” berry

Words… Words… Words

Average: typical, usual, or common

Blue: another way to say sad

Cooped up: confined, stuck somewhere

Critic: judge, reviewer

For more information about fruits and vegetables in season,

visit: www.papreferred.com and click on “Seasonal Items”

Fun Strawberry Facts

Did you know…

Strawberries are the

only fruit with seeds on

the outside.

The average strawberry

has 200 seeds.

Strawberries are grown

in every state, but

California grows most

(83%) of them.

The largest known

strawberry ever grown

was the size of an apple.

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Move…

The weather is getting nicer and after being cooped up in the house, you are

probably ready to get outside. Your local park is a great place to visit and

the best part is that it is FREE!

Park Critic

1. Find a free park in your area. A good place to locate one is your phone

book under the yellow pages.

2. Using your calendar, plan a day to visit it.

3. Take along a pen and paper to record your “review.” Here are some

things to comment on…

What equipment does the park have? (swing, slide, etc.)

What was your child’s favorite thing?

Did you see anything unsafe?

Was there a picnic area?

4. With your child, give the park a star rating.

Yucky

OK

Good

GREAT!

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Step into Spring Reflections You are the most important teacher in your child’s life!


☺ Had strawberries for a snack


☺ Talked about the Fun Strawberry Facts

☺ Did the Park Critic activity

Anything else?



Family Names:

Date:

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Stroll into Summer



Munch: Yummy ideas and information about watermelons




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Munch...

Watermelons make a healthy and filling treat.

They help keep your body hydrated and give

Vitamins A and C, fiber and potassium.

Potassium helps your muscles.

Buy a watermelon with your child. Talk about

how heavy it feels. Have your child predict

whether or not there are seeds inside. Wash

the watermelon in cold water and then cut it

open. Talk about the different colors and how

it smells. Don’t forget to munch on some, too!

The Funny Bone

Question: Why did the boy put a watermelon under

his pillow?

Answer: He wanted to have sweet dreams


Canteen: a small container used to carry water

Explorer: a person who travels to discover

new places and things

Hydrated: to keep enough water in your body

Stroll: a nice relaxing walk

For more information about fruits and vegetables in season,

visit: www.papreferred.com and click on “Seasonal Items”

Fun Watermelon Facts

Did you know...

Early explorers

used watermelons

as canteens.

Watermelons are 92%

water.

Watermelons can be

called a fruit, but are

really a vegetable.

Every part of the

watermelon can be

eaten… even the rind

and the seeds.

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Move…

The days are longer and warmer. Enjoy every moment of it! It is very

important that you drink plenty of water and put on sunscreen frequently.

Sunscreen should be 30-50 SPF.

Operation Cool-Off

Here are some ideas for cooling off when the weather is hot.

1. Find a local pool to visit. Make sure to take along your sunscreen, floaties,

and some toys.

2. Turn on the sprinkler in the back yard and run through it.

3. Take a water-filled bucket outside along with some water toys. Splash

and play.

Note… Never leave your child alone with water, even if you feel it is safe.

Only visit a pool where there is a lifeguard on duty.

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Stroll into Summer Reflections You are the most important teacher in your child’s life!


☺ Opened up a watermelon and ate it


☺ Talked about the Fun Watermelon Facts

☺ Did Operation Cool-Off

Anything else?



Family Names:

Date:

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Fly into Fall



Munch: Yummy ideas and information about apples




Fly into Fall: A Family Activity Guide was developed as a supplement to the Keystone Kids Go!

Keystone Color Me Healthy project.

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Munch...

Apples are at their peak in the fall months.

They also make a healthy and filling snack. A

medium size apple has only 80 calories and is

fat free. Apples also are a great source of

fiber which helps move food through our body.

Share an apple with your child. Wash the

apple in cold water and then cut it in half and

inspect what you see. Look at the seed pockets

and count how many seeds are there. Talk

about how the apple feels, weighs, smells, and

looks.

The Funny Bone

Question: Why was the apple all alone?

Answer: Because the banana split!


Inspect: look closely at

Peak: prime, best

Split: another way of saying take-off or leave

Volume: amount

For more information about fruits and vegetables,

visit: www.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org

Fun Apple Facts

Did you know…

Apples are grown in all

50 states.

25% of an apple’s

volume is air. That is

why they float.

Every apple has 5 seed

pockets inside. The

number of seeds

depend on how healthy

the apple tree was.

Most of the world’s

apples are grown in

China. The United

States is second.

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Move…

It won’t be long until the weather gets cold. Take advantage of the nice

days that are left and get outside. Fall is a season of great sights, smells,

and sounds.

Fall Scavenger Walk

Take a walk with your child outside. Talk about all the sights, smells, and

sounds that you find. Take a pen and paper along to write down all the things

you see. Here are some things to look for:

The smell of leaves

An acorn, a pinecone, a wooly caterpillar, a red leaf, a green leaf, a yellow

leaf, a stick, and anything else you can think of

The sound of “crunch” under your feet

Other ideas…

Rake up a pile of leaves and jump into it (A great way to work off

some energy!)

Collect different leaves and make a book

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Fly into Fall Reflections

You are the most important teacher in your child’s life! As a family, we… (circle which ones you did)

☺ Cut and ate an apple

☺ Inspected the seed pocket and counted the seeds


☺ Talked about the Fun Apple Facts

☺ Went on the Fall Scavenger Hunt Anything else?



Family Names:

Date:

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