Brainstorming on Food

Date: 23^rd June 2014

Day: Monday

Time: 3:00-4:00pm      

Class: Pomegranate      

Theme: Yummy Food

Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Brainstorming on Food

Before we went in deeper into the food topic, we took about 10 minutes to decide a name for our theme this time. Many titles had been given such as Nice Food, Food that I like, Yummy Food, Good Food, Very Good Food etc. The children cast their vote and finally they decided to use “Yummy Food” as their title of their theme.

Teacher: Why do we need to eat food?

Derek: To make our body strong. Food got fibre.

Kern Ee: The food is let our body stronger.

Kwan Ming: We grow taller.

Chloe: We grow bigger, bigger.

Teacher: Yes, you are no longer the size of a baby. You have grown taller and bigger now.

Teacher: When do we eat food?

Children: Morning….afternoon….

Teacher: What kind of signal our body will tell us that we need to eat food?

(No answer from the floor. I have to start to give hints like rubbing my stomach.)

Teng Hong: Stomachache.

Teacher: Not stomachache. Your stomach will rumble. What is that feeling?

(I started the word with “h” with some blanks for the children to fill in. They had shouted a few alphabets. Finally Kwan Ming got the answer – hungry)

Then I briefly introduced the food pyramid to the children to let them have an idea about food intake each day. We shall do some activities about the food pyramid this week before we move in to each section to explore more on food.