Our Position on Nutrition

After reading the book Dragon Gets By and learning about Dragon's terrible choices about nutrition. We studied the ChooseMyPlate website about proper nutrition and what we need to eat to keep our bodies healthy.  Each child was given a felt piece that represented a fruit or a vegetable. We sorted those.  We drew our favorite fruits, vegetables, grains, proteins and dairy products on our My Plates. Then we used hula hoops to build a big My Plate and sorted and classified pictures of food into the appropriate sections.  We learned about 'sometimes' foods.  We separated a real plate into the different food groups and were given a piece of food from each group. Our test was to know where to place the food to match it's food group. We had carrots, grapes, turkey, cheese and crackers.  If we passed the test, we got to eat our learning!  Yummy!