Live: Buy Vegetables Together

Objective: To enhance children’s knowledge of the types, nutritional values and benefits of vegetables with reference to the Food Pyramid.

Materials: Fresh vegetables, lyrics of the kids’ song, online resources (pictures of places where we can or cannot buy vegetables, and nutritional information of vegetables), towels, the Food Pyramid, recipes and painting tools.

Let’s GO!

(Pre-nursery class)

Day One:

1. The teacher reads aloud the lyrics of ‘Buying Vegetables’ with the children.
   
   
2. Children fit different names of vegetables to the lyrics.
   
   
3. The teacher shows some pictures of places where we can or cannot buy vegetables.
   
   
4. Children then share their experience of buying vegetables.
   
   
5. Have the children pair up with each other. Ask them to deliver the vegetables to the destination with the use of towels or cloth. Then ask them to put the vegetables where vegetables are sold.
   
   
6. The teacher encourages the children to visit the market or supermarket together with their parents and buy vegetables. They have to share the experience the next day, when the class explore the nutritional values of vegetables.

Day Two:

1. Children share their experience of market/supermarket visit the day before.
   
   
2. Discuss with children the nutritional values of vegetable so that they learn the benefits of vegetables.
   
   
3. Ask children to think about what they can do with the vegetable they have brought back.
   
   
4. Divide the class into small groups. Each group choose their favourite vegetable recipe for lunch and discuss how to cook and what ingredients they should use.

(Kindergarten 1)

1. Divide the class into groups. The teacher then brings them to the market or supermarket to buy vegetables.
   
   
2. During the visit, the Putonghua teacher will invite the children to guess the names of vegetables in riddles.
   
   
3. When they are back in school again, the children will share in groups what they have bought.

Live: Who is the Little Chef?

Objective: To help children know better the benefits of eating vegetables and teach them the correct dietary attitude by making them prepare and cook a vegetable meal themselves.

Materials: Fresh vegetables, spaghetti, kitchenware, dining utensils and the vegetable mind map.

Let’s GO!

1. Children sit in circle and play the game ‘guess who’s the chef’ : the ‘little chef’ will engage in a body movement and the rest of the class will follow him/her. The rest of the kids, who pretend to be customers, will guess who the little chef is.
   
   
2. At the end of the game, children follow the teacher’s instructions to clean and chop the vegetables.
   
   
3. A group of children put the vegetables into a pot and make a vegetable soup. Another group assist in cooking the spaghetti with tomato sauce.
   
   
4. The children taste the dishes and share with each other how they feel.
   
   
5. With the use of a mind map, the teacher rounds up what they have learnt in the vegetable topical study.

Live: Art, Music and Physical Activity Jam

Objective: To let children learn the structure of vegetables and build up an attitude of exploration.

Materials: fresh vegetables, art & craft tools.

Let’s GO!

1. Children observe the structure of a tomato.
   
   
2. They learn the structure of vegetables through jigsaw puzzle.
   
   
3. Art activity: Ask children to stencil patterns on drawing paper using vegetables and then observe various parts of vegetables.
   
   
4. Music activity: Children accompany the song ‘Vegetables are My Best Friend’ with maracas.
   
   
5. Physical activity: Invite the children to pair up with each other. Some pretend to be vegetables using different body gestures while others pretend how vegetables look like when being cut up.