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EEC 4731 - Health, Safety, and Nutrition for Young Children
Professor: Dawn Towle
Student: Jenna Mathis

EEC 4731 - Health, Safety, and Nutrition for Young Children
Professor: Dawn Towle
Student: Jenna Mathis

Student Activities Throughout The Week:
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Day 1
of the Rainforest
StartRainforestStart by making about the Rainforest.
HaveRainforest.Have the children the Rainforest" song:
Tune:song:Tune: "If you're you know it"
Thereit"There are four in the rainforest.
4 LAYERS!
Thererainforest.4 LAYERS!There are four in the rainforest.
4 LAYERS!
Forestfloor,rainforest.4 LAYERS!Forestfloor, understory, canopy, emergent.
(asemergent.(as you sing reach up high)
Therehigh)There are four in the rainforest.
4rainforest.4 LAYERS!
This know the layers.
Afterlayers.After they know Cowcher's book "Rainforest".
Read,"Rainforest".Read, discuss, and
The activity for the day is the Layers of the Rainforest layered book. They color each layer and cut it out - then the teacher helps make sure they put them in the proper order (I usually tape them, but they can glue)
(Technology Integration!) Play Microsoft Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores the Rainforest cd-rom at computer station throughout the day. Allowing children to take turns.
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Day 2
Flowers and Leaves
SingLeavesSing 4 layers
Discuss the importance of trees and plants giving us oxygen. Teach the definition of oxygen (the air that we breathe). Start talking about the more trees and plants we have, the more oxygen we have and when they cut down the rainforest, we have less oxygen. This will get them thinking about the importance of saving the rainforest and not being wasteful. Talk about how much of the world is covered by rainforest, etc.
Activity:
(TechnologyActivity:(Technology Integration!) Use
Have each child create flowers and leaves for the rainforest wall using construction paper. Stress creativity. If they can imagine it, there is probably a flower that looks like that in the rainforest!
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Day 3
Birds-3Birds- especially Toucans
SingToucansSing 4 Layers are, etc.
Activity:
Have
Activity:Have each child on rainforest wall.
Eatwall.Eat fruit loops!
Writing activity:
Haveactivity:Have each child rainforest, I saw_.saw___. Then have
(Technology Integration!) Then, when finished hand-writing, let students take turns at computer station to practice typing their sentence in a word-processing software.
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Day 4
Jaguars and Tigers
SingTigersSing 4 layers book included.
Activity:
(Technology
Activity:(Technology Integration!) Use
Have each child create a jaguar with construction paper to add to your rainforest. If you have time, you can also have each child cut out a tiger and then marble paint it.
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Last Day – Day 5
up and KWL
SingKWLSing 4 layers
(Technology Integration!) Let children one at a time come to the front of the class and write on the SmartBoard a name of a rainforest animal that we have learned about (spider monkey, howler monkey, morpho butterfly, jaguar, tiger, gorilla, toucan, macaw, sloth, boa, frogs, etc.)
Introduce the word EXTINCT. Read "Where the Forest Meets the Sea" and "For the Love of our Earth". Explain about the increasing rate at which animals of the rainforest are disappearing. For the rest of the day - every hour take down all of 1 kind of animal so they can visually comprehend extinct.

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Day 1
of the RainforestStartRainforest
Start by making about the Rainforest.HaveRainforest.
Have the children the Rainforest" song:Tune:song:
Tune: "If you're you know it"Thereit"
There are four in the rainforest.4 LAYERS!Thererainforest.
4 LAYERS!
There are four in the rainforest.4 LAYERS!Forestfloor,rainforest.
4 LAYERS!
Forestfloor, understory, canopy, emergent.(asemergent.
(as you sing reach up high)Therehigh)
There are four in the rainforest.4rainforest.
4 LAYERS!
This know the layers.Afterlayers.
After they know Cowcher's book "Rainforest".Read,"Rainforest".
Read, discuss, and
The activity for the day is the Layers of the Rainforest layered book. They color each layer and cut it out - then the teacher helps make sure they put them in the proper order (I usually tape them, but they can glue)
(Technology Integration!) Play Microsoft Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores the Rainforest cd-rom at computer station throughout the day. Allowing children to take turns.
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Day 2
Flowers and LeavesSingLeaves
Sing 4 layers
Discuss the importance of trees and plants giving us oxygen. Teach the definition of oxygen (the air that we breathe). Start talking about the more trees and plants we have, the more oxygen we have and when they cut down the rainforest, we have less oxygen. This will get them thinking about the importance of saving the rainforest and not being wasteful. Talk about how much of the world is covered by rainforest, etc.
Activity:(TechnologyActivity:
(Technology Integration!) Use
Have each child create flowers and leaves for the rainforest wall using construction paper. Stress creativity. If they can imagine it, there is probably a flower that looks like that in the rainforest!
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Day 3Birds-3
Birds- especially ToucansSingToucans
Sing 4 Layers are, etc.
Activity:Have
Activity:
Have each child on rainforest wall.Eatwall.
Eat fruit loops!
Writing activity:Haveactivity:
Have each child
(Technology Integration!) Then, when finished hand-writing, let students take turns at computer station to practice typing their sentence in a word-processing software.
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Day 4
Jaguars and TigersSingTigers
Sing 4 layers book included.
Activity:(Technology
Activity:
(Technology Integration!) Use
Have each child create a jaguar with construction paper to add to your rainforest. If you have time, you can also have each child cut out a tiger and then marble paint it.
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Last Day – Day 5
up and KWLSingKWL
Sing 4 layers
(Technology Integration!) Let children one at a time come to the front of the class and write on the SmartBoard a name of a rainforest animal that we have learned about (spider monkey, howler monkey, morpho butterfly, jaguar, tiger, gorilla, toucan, macaw, sloth, boa, frogs, etc.)
Introduce the word EXTINCT. Read "Where the Forest Meets the Sea" and "For the Love of our Earth". Explain about the increasing rate at which animals of the rainforest are disappearing. For the rest of the day - every hour take down all of 1 kind of animal so they can visually comprehend extinct.
This is the cover for the students rainforest journal. It just needs to be printed out and then taped/glued onto each child's journal.
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Raintree Nutrition, Inc.
AllInc.All rights reserved.
This is the stencil for the toucan drawing project.
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Day 1
of the Rainforest
StartRainforestStart by making about the Rainforest.
HaveRainforest.Have the children the Rainforest" song:
Tune:song:Tune: "If you're you know it"
Thereit"There are four in the rainforest.
4 LAYERS!
Thererainforest.4 LAYERS!There are four in the rainforest.
4 LAYERS!
Forestfloor,rainforest.4 LAYERS!Forestfloor, understory, canopy, emergent.
(asemergent.(as you sing reach up high)
Therehigh)There are four in the rainforest.
4rainforest.4 LAYERS!
This know the layers.
Afterlayers.After they know Cowcher's book "Rainforest".
Read,"Rainforest".Read, discuss, and
The activity for the day is the Layers of the Rainforest layered book. They color each layer and cut it out - then the teacher helps make sure they put them in the proper order (I usually tape them, but they can glue)
(Technology Integration!) Play Microsoft Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores the Rainforest cd-rom at computer station throughout the day. Allowing children to take turns.
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Day 2
Flowers and Leaves
SingLeavesSing 4 layers
Discuss the importance of trees and plants giving us oxygen. Teach the definition of oxygen (the air that we breathe). Start talking about the more trees and plants we have, the more oxygen we have and when they cut down the rainforest, we have less oxygen. This will get them thinking about the importance of saving the rainforest and not being wasteful. Talk about how much of the world is covered by rainforest, etc.
Activity:
(TechnologyActivity:(Technology Integration!) Use
Have each child create flowers and leaves for the rainforest wall using construction paper. Stress creativity. If they can imagine it, there is probably a flower that looks like that in the rainforest!
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Day 3
Birds-3Birds- especially Toucans
SingToucansSing 4 Layers are, etc.
Activity:
Have
Activity:Have each child on rainforest wall.
Eatwall.Eat fruit loops!
Writing activity:
Haveactivity:Have each child
(Technology Integration!) Then, when finished hand-writing, let students take turns at computer station to practice typing their sentence in a word-processing software.
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Day 4
Jaguars and Tigers
SingTigersSing 4 layers book included.
Activity:
(Technology
Activity:(Technology Integration!) Use
Have each child create a jaguar with construction paper to add to your rainforest. If you have time, you can also have each child cut out a tiger and then marble paint it.
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Last Day – Day 5
up and KWL
SingKWLSing 4 layers
(Technology Integration!) Let children one at a time come to the front of the class and write on the SmartBoard a name of a rainforest animal that we have learned about (spider monkey, howler monkey, morpho butterfly, jaguar, tiger, gorilla, toucan, macaw, sloth, boa, frogs, etc.)
Introduce the word EXTINCT. Read "Where the Forest Meets the Sea" and "For the Love of our Earth". Explain about the increasing rate at which animals of the rainforest are disappearing. For the rest of the day - every hour take down all of 1 kind of animal so they can visually comprehend extinct.
Get out your KWL chart and finish the last column - "What we learned" Have them check "what we know" and using what they now know, check for accuracy. Write a class letter to the President asking him to pass legislation to save the rainforest.
A good website to learn more about the rain forest is (http://www.rain-tree.com/). It has lots of helpful information that we might not have time to cover in class. So I suggest that if you have a computer at home, or time to go to the library, that you take a look at this website!
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This is the cover for the students rainforest journal. It just needs to be printed out and then taped/glued onto each child's journal.
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(Technology Integration!) Use SmartBoard to draw/trace the pictures of some rainforest flowers in front of the whole class.
Have each child create flowers and leaves for the rainforest wall using construction paper. Stress creativity. If they can imagine it, there is probably a flower that looks like that in the rainforest!
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Have each child write this sentence prompt: In the rainforest, I saw_. Then have them illustrate what animal they saw in the rainforest and write the name of the animal themselves. Let them use inventive spelling to write the name of the rainforest animal. They can do it!
(Technology Integration!) Then, when finished hand-writing, let students take turns at computer station to practice typing their sentence in a word-processing software.
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Get out your KWL chart and finish the last column - "What we learned" Have them check "what we know" and using what they now know, check for accuracy. Write a class letter to the President asking him to pass legislation to save the rainforest.
A good website to learn more about the rain forest is (http://www.rain-tree.com/). It has lots of helpful information that we might not have time to cover in class. So I suggest that if you have a computer at home, or time to go to the library, that you take a look at this website!
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This is the cover for the students rainforest journal. It just needs to be printed out and then taped/glued onto each child's journal.
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The activity for the day is the Layers of the Rainforest layered book. They color each layer and cut it out - then the teacher helps make sure they put them in the proper order (I usually tape them, but they can glue)
(Technology Integration!) Play Microsoft Scholastic's The Magic School Bus Explores the Rainforest cd-rom at computer station throughout the day. Allowing children to take turns.
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Day 2 ====
Flowers and Leaves
Sing 4 layers song. Show many pictures of different flowers and plants of the rainforest. Read "Rainforest" and "The Great Kapok Tree" - these books show lots of flowers and plants.
(Technology Integration!) Use SmartBoard to draw/trace the pictures of some rainforest flowers in front of the whole class.
Have each child create flowers and leaves for the rainforest wall using construction paper. Stress creativity. If they can imagine it, there is probably a flower that looks like that in the rainforest!
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Day 3
Birds- especially Toucans
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Day 4
Jaguars and Tigers
This is the stencil for the tiger drawing project.
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Student Activities Throughout The Week:
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Day 1
4 Layers of the Rainforest
about the Rainforest.HaveRainforest.
Have the children the Rainforest" song:Tune:song:
Tune: "If you're you know it"Thereit"
There are four in the rainforest.4 LAYERS!Thererainforest.
4 LAYERS!
There are four in the rainforest.4 LAYERS!Forestfloor,rainforest.
4 LAYERS!
Forestfloor, understory, canopy, emergent.(asemergent.
(as you sing reach up high)Therehigh)
There are four in the rainforest.4rainforest.
4 LAYERS!
This know the layers.Afterlayers.
After they know Cowcher's book "Rainforest".Read,"Rainforest".
Read, discuss, and
The activity for the day is the Layers of the Rainforest layered book. They color each layer and cut it out - then the teacher helps make sure they put them in the proper order (I usually tape them, but they can glue)
(Technology Integration)Integration!) Play Microsoft take turns.
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Day Day 2 ====
Flowers and Leaves
Sing 4 layers song. Show many pictures of different flowers and plants of the rainforest. Read "Rainforest" and "The Great Kapok Tree" - these books show lots of flowers and plants.
Discuss the importance of trees and plants giving us oxygen. Teach the definition of oxygen (the air that we breathe). Start talking about the more trees and plants we have, the more oxygen we have and when they cut down the rainforest, we have less oxygen. This will get them thinking about the importance of saving the rainforest and not being wasteful. Talk about how much of the world is covered by rainforest, etc.
Activity:
(Technology Integration)Integration!) Use SmartBoard
Have each child create flowers and leaves for the rainforest wall using construction paper. Stress creativity. If they can imagine it, there is probably a flower that looks like that in the rainforest!
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Day 3
Birds- especially Toucans
Writing activity:
Have each child write this sentence prompt: In the rainforest, I saw_. Then have them illustrate what animal they saw in the rainforest and write the name of the animal themselves. Let them use inventive spelling to write the name of the rainforest animal. They can do it!
(Technology Integration)Integration!) Then, when word-processing software.
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Day 4
Jaguars and Tigers
Sing 4 layers song. Explain a bit about how jaguars are the king of the rainforest, but that tigers also live in some, but more in less dense areas. Read "The Great Kapok Tree" and "Who is the Beast". Ask questions on "Who is the Beast". There are some other ideas to do with the book included.
Activity:
(Technology Integration)Integration!) Use SmartBoard
Have each child create a jaguar with construction paper to add to your rainforest. If you have time, you can also have each child cut out a tiger and then marble paint it.
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Last Day –
Wrap up and KWL
Sing 4 layers song.
(Technology Integration)Integration!) Let children
Introduce the word EXTINCT. Read "Where the Forest Meets the Sea" and "For the Love of our Earth". Explain about the increasing rate at which animals of the rainforest are disappearing. For the rest of the day - every hour take down all of 1 kind of animal so they can visually comprehend extinct.
(Technology Integration)Integration!) Visit http://www.kidssavingtherainforest.org/
Get out your KWL chart and finish the last column - "What we learned" Have them check "what we know" and using what they now know, check for accuracy. Write a class letter to the President asking him to pass legislation to save the rainforest.
A good website to learn more about the rain forest is (http://www.rain-tree.com/). It has lots of helpful information that we might not have time to cover in class. So I suggest that if you have a computer at home, or time to go to the library, that you take a look at this website!
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This is the cover for the students rainforest journal. It just needs to be printed out and then taped/glued onto each child's journal.
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This is the stencil for the tiger drawing project.
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