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Teacher’s/Leader’s Guide for Page 2—Parents Page Every We Wonder includes a guide for parents. Encourage parents to use this guide to help their children get the most out of the activities in We Wonder. Supports Speaking & Listening Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.3 Supports Counting & Cardinality Standards: CCSS.Mathematics.CC.K.1 CCSS.Mathematics.CC.K.5 Page 3—Eating healthy foods helps your body grow strong! Invite a school nurse, dietitian or other health-care worker to talk to the children. He or she can talk about good nutrition, food groups, serving sizes and the importance of exercise and not skipping meals. Help the children think of questions to ask the speaker (for example: What foods are good for our bones? Our heart? Our eyes? Our teeth?). Afterward have the children write thank-you notes or draw pictures for the speaker. Supports Speaking & Listening Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1a,b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.3 Supports Writing Standard: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.K.2 Page 4—Lots of foods are healthy! Talk about food diversity around the world. Introduce a few different cultures and talk about the climate and the foods that are grown and eaten in those regions. Find picture books that show the cultures’ foods or bring in samples for the children to taste. For example, foods from the United States include Florida oranges and Idaho potatoes. Foods from other countries include bananas from Ecuador and Swiss cheese from Switzerland. Have the children talk about family meal traditions. Ask them to have an adult at home write down a special family recipe. Have children create pictures to go with the recipes. Then ask each child to tell the class about his or her recipe and picture. Make a class cookbook using the recipes and pictures you collect. NOTE: Some children may have severe allergies to nuts and other foods. Before doing any activity that involves eating or touching foods, ask parents and caregivers about any food allergies their children may have. Supports Speaking & Listening Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.1b CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.4 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.5 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.K.6 The activities below can help reinforce the material in this We Wonder ® workbook when used in the classroom. Many are experiential, helping students work together to better understand issues related to good nutrition and to improve skills needed for success in school and life. You can also use these activities to help students meet select Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (CCSS.ELA) and for Mathematics (CCSS.Mathematics). Correlations to specific standards are listed below each activity. Visit www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy and www.corestandards.org/Math to learn more. We love healthy food! 2014 Edition ©2003 Channing Bete Company, Inc. All rights reserved. (05-14-A) Channing Bete Company, One Community Place, South Deerfield, MA 01373 • 20D-0133 To reorder call (800) 628-7733 or visit www.channing-bete.com and ask for item number PS90874 Follow your organization’s policies and regulations (for example, those that apply to parental notification and consent) when using these activities. C O M P A N Y Channin ®