Students are beginning a unit about food that will provide a variety of opportunities to engage in rich language. For students that are new to the country, this unit will also introduce them to the names of foods, colors, plural vs singular nouns, and much more. This week we are focusing on vegetables, and students have already had some lengthy discussions about how to define a fruit compared to a vegetable (see video link below), and then justifying whether or not a particular food is a fruit or vegetable. A few foods that led to some great debates were: bananas, pineapples, avocados, tomatoes, and peas. Students critiqued each other's arguments and even spent some time researching on the computer to help them draw conclusions about each food's designation and how to support their claim. We read a book called "Growing Vegetable Soup" to introduce this unit and posed the questions: Can you grow vegetable soup? We will continue to read more books and articles that relate to the topic of food so students can practice gathering information from what they read. We will also talk about the language used to write a recipe. If you have any soup recipes that you would like to send to school with your child, we would love to read them as a class! You can even email a picture of a recipe your family loves and I can print it for your child at school.
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