It was our week of nutrition and health and I wanted to do a fun activity to help the children understand which foods went into which categories of the food pyramid. This was a great activity and they loved it. We started at the bottom with the carbohydrates/starches and I had the children taking turns pulling 1 food item from the pile and putting it in the section and then we went on to the next student and then the next until the section was done and then we moved onto the next section. Depending on the group of children I was working with, sometimes there were 2 students selecting a food item at a time. The only real con I had is that our food pyramid was a little unbalanced due to the supply of plastic foods our school had on had. :)
They loved this unit and at meal times the kids were always telling us which section their food items would go into and what other foods went into which sections and which foods were good for you and which weren't.
The original plan was to have the children each make their own jellyfish, however, there were some surprises that popped up and they didn't get a chance to make their own, so I went ahead and made a few myself and hung them up in the hallway. The children loved them, it led to lots of questions, which was a fun way for the kids to learn about jellyfish. I also enjoyed having them in the hallway because it gave some movement and dimension to an otherwise boring walkway.
