This week we are reading Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Elhert.
The book has our attention on all things green, like these flowers that we added to our play-doh center.
Our sensory table is full on garden soil, pots, and vegetables.
It is time to plant our garden!
We are readying the soil.
Making a soft bed for those tiny little seeds that we will plant soon.
Today we interacted with real vegetables.
Each child brought in a main ingredient for our vegetable soup.
They shopped for the vegetables, washed and chopped them.
Then we added them to our pot.
We learned to use kitchen tools responsibly.
With the extra ingredients, we were able to see the parts of the vegetables.
We learned new words like silk, husk, and kernel.
While we waited for our soup to cook, we made place-mats.
We drew pictures of our favorite vegetables and then labeled them.
Can you see the brown potato? Right underneath the child has written the sounds that she hears in the word"potato" or her version,"pdw". We love to see our young learners excited about writing. When writing with preschoolers, there is no right and wrong, just a celebration that they are hearing sounds and translating them to letters, which they then put on paper. Seemingly simple, yet really a complicated process.
Now that the table is set, it is time to eat!
The boys and girls really seemed to enjoy the soup- for the most part!
Everyone tried it anyway and we had a teachable moment about using nice words to describe foods that we don't necessarily care for.
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