![]() Wash the vegetables and talk about textures. Predict which vegetables will sink or float. Read Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens as a tie-in text and talk about which vegetables would be “tops” or “bottoms” according to Hare. Sort the vegetables by color and by size.Ĭlassify and sort vegetables by the parts we eat: root vegetables, leaves, etc. I was so inspired by the fantastic ideas the teachers generated! Here are a few ideas we came up with after reading Rah,Rah, Radishes! A Vegetable Chant by April Pulley Sayre:īring in vegetables found in the book. This way, we had time to get our hands on over a dozen books and walk away with practical classroom applications. ![]() ![]() Rather than just lecture all day, I led a session of “speed-dating” books: we’d spend a few minutes skimming a book and brainstorming ways to use it with students, share our ideas with the group, and pass the book along. ![]() I brought stacks of books that tie into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) or STEAM (add Art) to share. I had the pleasure of speaking at an early education conference where our theme was literacy and science. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |