November Week 2: I Like It! I Don't Like It!

Transition Song: Gobble, Gobble song by Nooshi

Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: I like it/don't like it, labeling food items, He/She, Who questions, What questions, Where questions, hot/cold, thumbs up/thumbs down.

This week we looked at a lot of pictures of different foods.  Hot food, cold foods, foods that were very familiar, and foods that might have not been seen before.

Everyone could comment "I like it" and give a thumbs up, or "I don't like it" and give a thumbs down. We asked our peers "Do you like (oranges, doughnuts, scrambled eggs)?  Miss Carrie likes tomatoes.  She doesn't like peanut butter or peas.  But, Miss Carrie keeps trying a tiny taste of peanut butter or peas to see if she changed her mind.  Miss Carrie might change her mind as she grows up.

DO THIS AT HOME:  Talk about the foods you like or don't like?  Practice taking a tiny taste of foods you don't like or foods you think you won't like to see if you changed your mind.  I like using tiny spoons for this ala My Munch Bug SLP Melanie Potock.

 Instead of convincing your child to taste (which can put too much pressure on them), model it yourself and take a tiny taste to see if you like a certain item.

November Week 2: I Like It -or- I Don't Like It.

Transition Song:  Gobble Gobble (The Thanksgiving Song by Nooshi)

Vocabulary and Basic Concepts:  like/don't like/do you like, labeling food, What questions, Where questions. 

This week Miss Carrie said that there were a lot of foods we like and foods we don't like.  It's okay if someone likes a particular food that you don't.  It is okay if you like a food that your friend doesn't like.  Miss Carrie brought a lot of pictures of food to class.

We practiced asking "Do you like _________?" and named the food.  Then we practiced saying "I like it" and gave a 'thumbs up', and "I don't like it" and gave a 'thumbs down'. 

Miss Carrie handed pictures to everyone.  We showed the pictures to our friends and teachers and took turns asking "Do you like cookies?, Do you like spaghetti?  Do you like apples?  Do you like hot cocoa?"

Miss Carrie really likes tomatoes, french fries, spaghetti, broccoli, and hot cocoa.  She really doesn't like peanut butter or peas.  She also said that she keeps trying food she thinks she doesn't like to see if she changed her mind.  Sometimes we change our minds as we get older.

DO THIS AT HOME:  look at pictures of food in a magazine or cookbook or discuss food at your meal time.  Do you like it?  Do you not like it?  Did you try it?  This is a great way for kids working on /l/ to practice it. It is a great way to help kids expand phrases.

Exploring Food

In preschool, we explore food during Snack Time.  This particular day in Miss Jeana's classroom, stick pretzels and canned green beans were offered.  Children can say yes or no.  You wouldn't be surprised by how many children immediately said no to green beans.  But guess what happened next?

We made letters from our pretzels.

We had fun showing our teachers how to do it.

Miss Carrie decided she could turn her pretzels into chopsticks.  Everyone wanted to try.

Then Miss Carrie made a green bean mustache!  It was so funny!

Some of us made pretzel mustaches.

More mustaches.

Then some of the children watched Miss Carrie taste the green bean.  She decided she liked it.  Soon, lots of kids were tasting green beans.  Some decided they didn't like it.  That's okay.  It's important to try foods to see if you like them or not.  Other children decided they liked the green beans.  Some even speared them with pretzel sticks or used pretzels like chopsticks.

The important takeaway here is to play with your food, explore it, and no stress about eating.  Cheer for the effort of trying it.  It's okay to put it down and not eat it.  It can stay on your plate or napkin until you're ready to clean up.

November Week 2: Yummy Yucky

phoneme: /t/

Transition Song: Gobble Gobble (The Thanksgiving Song) by Nooshi (first two verses)


Materials: Laminated Letter T, Yummy Yucky By Leslie Patricelli

Vocabulary and Basic Concepts:  yummy/yucky, like/don't like, hot/cold, spaghetti, worms, blueberries, crayons, soup, soap, sandwich, sand, cookies, coffee, chocolate sauce, hot sauce, apple pie, mud pie, hamburgers, boogers (oh, yes, we went there!), eggs, ear wax, fish sticks, fish food, ice cream, too much, at home, Mom likes, Dad likes, What questions, Where questions, Who questions.

Pre-Literacy:  Let's draw the letter T.  Draw top to bottom.  Now back to the top.  Draw left to right and now we stop.  What words have the /t/ sound?  Turkey, turtle, toys, taco, tongue, tiger, tape, tomatoes, table, tree.

This week we are reading the book Yummy Yucky by Leslie Patricelli.  Miss Carrie loves Leslie Patricelli books!

Babies put everything in their mouths.  They don't know what is yummy and what is yucky!  We read the book together and talked about what we can eat and what we can't eat.  We discovered that some friends like foods we don't.  We heard a story about one of our classmates who went camping at the sand dunes and got sand in her mouth.  Sand is yucky!  Fun to play in, but not to eat.  Baby even tried to eat boogers!  EW!  We've been talking about boogers earlier in the year so everyone knows that we don't put them in out mouths.  If you put your fingers in your nose, the teachers will ask you to wash your hands.  We don't want to get sick.

This book brought out a lot of conversation and a lot of laughter among the kids. Everyone was eager to share what they liked and did not like. What do you like to eat? Who likes pie?  Where  did you eat hamburgers?

DO THIS AT HOME:  What do you think is yummy/yucky?  What things should you NEVER put in our mouths?  What foods do you like or don't like?

Other things that happened in school this week:

We had a drill this week.  The alarms were loud!  We had to go outside until the drill was all done.

November Week 1: FOOD!

phoneme: /t/

Transition Song:  Gobble Gobble (The Thanksgiving Song) by Nooshi

We're learning this song without the music first so we can take it slower than the recording.  Also, we are only learning the first two verses.  This is a song that will get stuck in your head!

Materials: pictures of foods and classroom items, laminated letter T, pictures of turkey, pilgrim, and traditional Thanksgiving foods.

Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: familiar and unfamiliar food items (pizza, apples, carrots, tomatoes, doughnuts, spaghetti, play dough, blocks, crayons, paint, not, like/don’t like, food/not food.

Pre-literacy:  Let's draw the letter T.  "Draw top to bottom.  Now back to the top.  Draw left to right and then we stop."  Let's make the sound /t,t,t,t,t,t,t/.  Who has a /t/ sound in their name? What else has the /t/ sound?  Top, bottom, left, right, time, table.

This month we are talking about about food and Thanksgiving.  Miss Carrie brought out a lot of pictures of foods and items around the classroom (paint, playdough, crayons, blocks) and things from outside (rocks).  We talked with our teachers and friends and Miss Carrie about the pictures.  Was the picture was food or not food?  Do you like it?  Miss Carrie likes tomatoes, broccoli, peaches, spaghetti, and fries.  Miss Carrie does not like peas.  What happens if we put Miss Jen's or Miss Jeana's blocks or crayons or playdough in our mouths?  We would have to wash the blocks.  We would have to throw away the playdough.

DO THIS AT HOME:  Talk about the foods you are eating at mealtimes together.  Do you like it?  What foods do you not like?

Miss Jen is signing 'milk'.

Other things that happened in the classroom:

We're signing a cast!