Week 12: Eating Healthy and Healthy Snacks

this week we focused on nutrition. we talked about the food groups and what each one does. i realized that the new food pyramid is not as easy to teach as the old one. i think if i taught it again, i'd go back to the old version. it just seems more clear cut and straight forward. but the lists of food each girl made seemed to be much easier in english than most tasks. then i thought about it and when learning a new language, food seems to be one of the first topics always covered in addition to greetings and key phrases. so for each food group, the girls got a sample. before they were allowed to touch their food though, we all washed our hands with soap. for our activity, we did some food art. we made ants on a log with celery, peanut butter, and raisons which totally flopped. many of the logs went out the window when the girls thought i was not looking. we also did 'bacon and eggs' with pretzle sticks, melted white chocolate, and hopefully a yellow m&m. we had difficulty melting the chocolate, but it tasted good. it was a quick lesson and went smooth enough.