(while 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 how to describe different foods. This week we are focusing on vegetables. We read a book called "Growing Vegetable Soup" to introduce this unit and posed the question: Can you grow vegetable soup? Students have just begun sharing which vegetables they would want to put in a soup and have been practicing some reading skills through a chant (see picture below). We have had fun inserting students names into the chant: Sara put the carrots in, carrots in, carrots in. Sara put the carrots in, we'll all stir the soup! 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. The below chant also let us practice the prepositions: on and in
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