Healthy Fruits for Young Children
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Subject Area: Health Education | Grade Level: PreK
Lesson Length: 15 minutes or less
Keywords/Tags: health, fruits, daily, sweet, eat
Lesson Description: In this lesson, the PreK students will familiarize themselves with different kinds of fruits. They will learn the names of the fruits and learn the rationale for eating fruits in order to grow in a healthy manner and keep the sickness away. The key words will include health, fruit, daily, and eating.

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Video : Learning Fruits: Fun Way to Build Your Child Vocabulary
Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.
Description: The video includes the names of many fruits with each fruit mentioned with repetition for emphasis. The PreK students who are still working on articulation learn how to call each fruit.
Reading : Sorting Out Fruits in Our Dramatic Center
Instructions: If you are ready for a story, touch your ears. Sit the Indian style, hands on your lap and pay attention as we read the book with the title, "Eating the Alphabets". During center time, you will have an opportunity to visit the dramatic center and find the fruits that are in the video and also the fruits that we read about in our book.

First, the teacher will read the book entitled " Eating the Alphabet". This book highlights all the names of the fruits whose name starts with a specific letter of the Alphabet. The teacher will hold a discussion asking the students to explain the fruits they had eaten for both the breakfast and lunch and expound on thier choices. The teacher will share pictures of unfamilar fruits from the book and explain how seasons determine the kind so fruits available at the stores/

Description: The teacher will fist ask the assistant teacher to share the fruits she brought for lunch. The teacher will also share the real fruits in her lunch box to model healthy eating for the children. The teacher will pull out a bunch of grapes so that each student can enjoy a taste of grapes before reading the book. The teacher will first do a picture read of the colorful pictures of fruits and since the book is a little long, the teacher will select specific pages for emphasis and read them. The teacher may want to highlight the unfamiliar fruits to the students.
Resources : Fruit Sorting at the Dramatic Play
Instructions: During your center time, please sort and place the fruits you have tasted into the plates provided. Leave the fruits you do not know in the bowl for our class discussion.
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Description: Students will be provided with a bowl of fruits for them to sort out at the dramatic pay.
Quiz : The Fruits of the Year
Instructions: Please complete this quiz by choosing the correct answer for each question. You can take this quiz as many times needed.rn1. I eat fruits every day. (Yes No) 2. My family enjoy eating fruits. (Yes No) 3. I am likely to be sick if I do not eat fruits. (Yes, No) 4. I have tasted all the fruits in the video. (Yes, No) 5. Fruits are more expensive than the other foods. (Yes No) 6. Summer is the season when most fruits are available. (Yes No) 7. A tomato is a fruit. (Yes No)
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Description: The quiz has Yes and No answers. I eat fruits every day. (Yes No) 2. My family enjoy eating fruits. (Yes No) 3. I am likely to be sick if I do not eat fruits. (Yes, No) 4. I have tasted all the fruits in the video. (Yes, No) 5. Fruits are more expensive than the other foods. (Yes No) 6. Summer is the season when most fruits are available. (Yes No) 7. A tomato is a fruit. (Yes No)
Forum : Discussion Questions
Instructions: This discussion forum will have questions for students to respond. Read the posted questions, and respond to each. Students are responsible for posting one initial and and two peer responses for each topic. What fruits does your family buy? Why must we eat fruits daily? Is true that if we do not eat fruits we will be sick?
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Description: Have an adult read the questions to you and type up your answers. Read what your friends wrote as answers and give them a good comment on their answers.
Assignment : Go Shopping for Fruits With Your Family

Over the weekend, go for shopping with your family. Select your favorite fruits and convince your mom to buy them for you. Bring one fruit for show and tell to our class.