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Fruits and Vegetables are an important topic to talk about to Prekindergartens in the classroom because it starts them understanding what healthy foods and portions are. This unit engages students by dramatic play, as they can differentiate what is a fruit and vegetable. They can play in centers as a grocery store. They will also be allowed to learn through multiple books while using academic language for the content. This content meets the Texas Pre-K guidelines in the Science domain:

PK4.VI.B.3 Child observes, investigates, describes, and discusses the relationship of organisms in their environments.

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Vegetable: a plant or part of a plant used as food.

Fruit: the sweet and fleshy product of tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food.

Health: use of food and other nourishing material by the body.

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Name and Identify Fruits and Vegetables

The similarites and differences of fruits and vegetables

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For the Field Trip Experience I will take them on a little trip to the grocery store. I would have parents of the students volunteer to help on the field trip. On our field trip we will go to the fruits and vegetables side. The students will be put into small groups with volunteer parents. In the small groups they will need to pick 3 fruits and 3 vegetables that they learned about in class that week.

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I will prepare the students at the beginning of the week about when the field trip is happening. I will explain every day at morning meeting/circle time how the schedule will be changed and how it will be when we return to the school.

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Morning Message:

Goodmorning Class! Get ready to tell me what your favorite fruit is! Please raise your hand and be patient.

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Daily Question:

How many of you eat your vegetables at home? Hold a one finger up for yes and three fingers up for no.

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Morning Message:

Today we are going to learn the differences between fruits and vegetables! Be prepared to use our thinking caps today!

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Daily Question:

What fruit or vegetable do you want to try for the first time?

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Morning Message:

Goodmorning my little minions! Today we have our field trip experience today. I will put you in your groups. Please be kind and patient!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=BURVtOl4GP8

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Fruits Song For Children | Kindergarten Nursery Rhymes And Kids Songs by Kids Tv

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uPrinh7kIg

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Fruits & Vegetables Song for Children by The Juicebox Jukebox! Healthy Nutrition Kids Music Veggies

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(Sung to: "Old MacDonald Had a Farm")

Vegetables are good for me, E-I-E-I-O

And so I eat them happily, E-I-E-I-O

(Children take turns naming vegetables that they like)

With a carrot here, and a carrot there.

Here a carrot, there a carrot.

Everywhere a carrot.

Vegetables are good for me, E-I-E-I-O

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Sung to: "Yankee Doodle"
Peel an apple, cut it up,
Cook it in a pot.
When you taste it you will find
It's applesauce you've got!

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Sung to: "Yankee Doodle"
Peel an apple, cut it up,
Cook it in a pot.
When you taste it you will find
It's applesauce you've got!

Way up high in an apple tree;Oops! I found a wiggly worm!
I saw two eyes looking at me.
I reached for an apple; it started to squirm,
That wiggly worm is a friend of mine;

Pick up a watermelon, put it in the basket,
Pick up a watermelon, put it in the basket,
Pick up a watermelon, put it in the basket,
Way down yonder in the watermelon patch.

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Songs and rhymes about food for preschool Pre-K and Kindergarten.

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Sung to: "Yankee Doodle"Peel an apple, cut it up,Cook it in a pot.When you taste it you will findIt's applesauce you've got! Way up high in an apple tree;Oops!

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Sung to: “Mary Had a Little Lamb”

We are pumpkins, big and round
Big and round, big and round
We are pumpkins, big and round
Seated on the ground.

We are string beans, green and fine…..
Growing on a vine.
We are onions, round and white….
We make soup taste right.
We are carrots, orange and long…
Help us sing our song.
We are cabbage, green or red….
See our funny head.
We are corn stalks, tall and straight….
Don’t we just taste great.

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10 Vegetable Songs (With Lyrics) - Preschool Education

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Engage your preschoolers with these fun Vegetable Songs. Perfect for singing along and learning about Vegetables!

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Mr Fruit Nursery Rhymes and Toddler Songs

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Fruits Finger Family, Preschool Rhyme and Songs for Kids

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Apples on a tree
Apples on a tree
Pick them off
Eat them up
Apples on a tree

Carrots in the ground
Carrots in the ground
Pull them up
wash them off
Carrots in the ground

Food in your tummy
Food in your tummy
Lick your lips
Mmm Mmm Mmm
Yum yum yummy

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Five Little Hotdogs

Five little hotdogs frying in the pan,
the grease got hot and one went BAM!

Four little, three little, two little, one little

NO little hotdoge frying in the pan,
the grease got hot and the pan went BAM!

Five Fat Peas

Five fat peas in a pea pod pressed
(hold hand in a fist)
One grew, two grew, so did all the rest.
They grew and grew
and did not stop,
Until one day
the pod went POP!
(clap hands)

Carrots in the ground
Carrots in the ground
Pull them up
wash them off
Carrots in the ground

Food in your tummy
Food in your tummy
Lick your lips
Mmm Mmm Mmm
Yum yum yummy

Five Cookies

Five little cookies in the bakery shop.
Shining bright with the sugar on top.
Along comes _________ with a nickel to pay.
He/She buys a cookie and takes it away.
(continue with four, three, two and one.)

Down on the corner in the Donut Shop
There were (Number of children in the class) little donuts with sugar on top.
Along came (child) with the penny to pay and
he/she took the (color) donut and ran away!
Then we count the remaining donuts and start again.

(Both hands high) Ten red apples grow on a tree
(Dangle one hand and then the other) Five for you and five for me.
(Shake body) Let us shake the tree just so
(Hands fall) And ten red apples will fall below
(Count ea. finger) 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.

You put the oil in the pot and you let it get hot
You put the popcorn in and you start to grin.
Sizzle, sizzle
Sizzle, sizzle
Sizzle, sizzle
Sizzle, sizzle
Sizzle, sizzle
Sizzle, sizzle
POP!

I scream,
You scream
We all scream
For ice cream!

I eat apples-
crunch, crunch, crunch
I eat sandwiches-
munch, munch, munch
I eat lollipops-
lick, lick, lick
But I eat ice cream
quick, quick, quick!

Patty cake patty cake,
Bakers man
Bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Roll it
Pat it
Mark it with a E
And put it in the oven for everybody!

Five red apples hanging in a tree (Hold up five fingers)
The juiciest apples you ever did see.
The wind came by and gave an angry frown (Fingers flutter downward)
And one little apple came tumbling down (One finger falls)
Four red apples, hanging in a tree, etc.

I like hotdogs
I like beans,
I like eating in my jeans.
I like french fries
I like ham
I like eating in my jams.
I like cookies
I like pie
I like eating in my tie.
I like bagels
I like lox
I like eating in my socks.
I like pancakes
I like molasses
I like eating in my glasses.
I like veggies
I like fruit
I like eating in my boots.

This is my garden;
(extend one hand forward, palm up)
I'll rake it with care,
(make raking motion on palm with other hand)
And then some flower seeds, I'll plant
(planting motion)
The sun will shine
(make circle with hands)
And the rain will fall,
(let fingers flutter down to lap)
And my garden will blossom
(cup hands together, extend upward slowly)
And grow straight and tall.

Pancake
Mix a pancake,
Stir a pancake,
Pop it in the pan;
Fry a pancake,
Toss a pancake,
Catch it if you can!

One potato, two potato,
Three potato, four;
I like mashed potato,
May I please have some more?

Other verses:
I like potato chips,
I like roast potatoes,
I like potato cakes,...

One, one
Cinnamon bun
Two, two
Chicken stew
Three, three
Cakes and tea
Five, five
Honey in a hive
Seven, seven
Straight from heaven
Eight, eight
Clean our plate
Nine, nine
Look at mine
Ten, ten
Start over again!

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Mrs. Peanuckle. Mrs. Peanuckle’s Vegetable Alphabet. Rodale Kids, 19 Sept. 2017.

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Gibbons, Gail. The Fruits We Eat. New York, Holiday House, 2015.

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Little Grasshopper Books. Plant It! Grow It, Eat It. Little Grasshopper Books, 15 July 2021.

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Rockwell, Anne. At the Supermarket. Henry Holt & Company Inc, 2015.

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Brooks, Jacqueline. Let’s Eat. Young Authors Publishing, 16 May 2023.

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Lomp, Stephan. Indestructibles: Baby, Let’s Eat! Workman Publishing, 3 Apr. 2018.

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Anuska Allepuz. That Fruit Is Mine! London, Walker Books And Subsidiaries, 2019.

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Lin, Grace. The Ugly Vegetables. Columbus, O.H., Zaner-Bloser, 2013.

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Hoffmann, Mark. Fruit Bowl. New York, Knopf Books For Young Readers, 2018.

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Eating the Alphabet Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z

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Eating the Alphabet Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z

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Ehlert, Lois. Eating the Alphabet. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.

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Dickmann, Nancy. Fruits. Capstone Classroom, 2012.

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Siminovich, Lorena. I like Fruit. Templar, 2010.

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Admont, Shelley. I Love to Eat Fruits and Vegetables. 22 Apr. 2014.

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For the farmer's market the students will have two roles they can choose to be. They can be a farmer that sells their fruits and vegetables or they can be a customer at the market. They will have a play register with money that they can collect when customer buys the food.

Materials:

play money

play fruit and vegetables

play register

Guidelines:

math:PK4.V.A.5 Child recognizes numerals 0-10.

reading: PK4.III.A.3 Child recognizes that all print carries meaning and serves as a means for communication.

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The students will have cut outs of fruits and vegetables. They will have two baskets one for fruit and one for vegetables. Students will us these cut outs/objects and put them in the correct basket.

Materials:

2 baskets

fruits and vegetable objects

Guidelines:

math:PK3.V.B.1 Child uses objects to demonstrate that adding one or more objects to a set will increase the number of objects in the set.

reading:PK4.III.E.1 Child can distinguish between elements of print including letters, words, and pictures

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This is something we can do everyday and use different types of fruits and vegetables. They will have cut outs and have to glue the fruit/vegetables together. They will then write on each fruit/vegetable starting at 1. This can go up to 10 fruits on a page or less.

Materials:

glue

print out picture of fruit/vegetable

paper

pencil

Guidelines:

math:PK3.V.A.1 Child rote counts from 1 to 10.

reading:PK4.III.C.1 Child recognizes and names at least 20 letters (upper- or lower-case letters).

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In the dramatic play area they can pretend to be workers in a grocery store and/or customers. They can sell or buy the fruits and vegetables.

Materials:

play fruits and vegetables

Have a grocery store set up

play money

Guidelines:

PK4.VIII.C.1 Child creates or recreates stories, moods, or experiences through dramatic representations.

PK4.VIII.B.2 Child responds to different musical styles through movement and play.

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Students can use the print outs of the frutis and vegetables to outline what they would like to draw/color. They can also use scissors to cut out outlines of the print outs and color how it is suppose to be.

Materials:

Paper

Colored pencils or markers

scissors

print outs of different fruits and vegetables

Guidelines:

PK4.IX.B.2 Child shows increasing control of tasks that require eye-hand coordination

PK4.IX.B.1 Child shows control of tasks that require small-muscle strength and control.

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In the math center they will have print outs of fruits and vegetables and use print out flash cards of numbers. They will need to use the same fruits and/or vegetables to get the correct number connecting to the flashcard.

Materials:

flash cards of numbers

print outs of fruits and vegetables

Guidelines:

PK4.V.A.2 Child counts up to 10 objects with oneto-one correspondence.

PK4.V.A.4 Child instantly recognizes the quantity of up to 6 objects without counting (subitizes)

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In this center the students will have to match the fruits and vegetables names with what they start with in the Alphabet.

Materials:

ABC letters

Fruits and Vegetables spelled out

Guidelines:

PK4.III.E.1 Child can distinguish between elements of print including letters, words, and pictures.

PK4.III.A.3 Child recognizes that all print carries meaning and serves as a means for communication.