Literature Focus Unit

Stephenie McKamey

Fiction Books

Gregory The Terrible Eater- By Mitchell Sharmat

The Very Hungry Caterpillar- By Eric Carle

The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten: A Book About

Food Chains- By Pat Relf and Joanna Cole

Green Eggs and Ham- By Dr. Seuss

If you Give a Mouse a Cookie- Laura Numeroff

Non-Fiction

EEK! Icky, Sticky, Gross Stuff in Your Food- By Pam Rosenberg

Food Rules: The Stuff you Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why You Sometimes Lose Your Lunch- By Bill Haduch

Good Enough to Eat: A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition- By Lizzy Rockwell

It’s Disgusting and We Ate It! True Food Facts From Around the World and Throughout History- By James Solheim

Let's Eat!: Children and Their Food Around the World- By Beatrice Hollyer

Theme Study

Student’s will participate in a thematic unit

on food and nutrition. This unit will focus on

food, health, and eating habits. The unit will

integrate reading and writing with science,

social studies, mathematics, art, music,

and physical education.

Student’s will develop an understanding of

what it means to keep a balanced and

healthy diet, how the food chain works, and

the role of food in different cultures.

Standards

RL. 10: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

RI. 1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for answers.

W. 5: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.

SL. 1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners building on others’ ideas and expressing their won clearly.

Language Arts: Reading Activities

Students will read fiction and non-fiction

books and poetry about food. Reading

will either take place silently, with a

friend, guided reading, reading aloud,

and listen to the teacher read.

Students will read their food poems,

stories, journals, and essays aloud to

the class.

Language Arts: Writing Activities

Students will create a food journal, to keep track of what they are eating through out the unit.

Using a brainstorm worksheet have students begin writing their own story based on food, what is healthy and what is not. They may also include the idea of food chains.

Students will create an concrete poem of any source of food we may eat, or they have eaten.

Have students create KWL charts for each non-fiction book read in class.

Create a word wall for health/food words

Create a research sheet and have students fill it out based on their favorite food.

Create a short essay of the food they like and dislike they may include any food allergies that they have.

Language Arts: Speaking

Activities Based on the students family history, pair

them up to what culture they come from and have students present on a cultural dish from their family history, or share a traditional family dish that they have grown up with.

Reading poems and stories out loud to the class.

Large group discussion/small group discussions on favorite foods.

Grand conversations about books read aloud.

Language Arts: Listening

Activities

Students will interactively listen to their family history from a family member or guardian.

Students will listen to their peers while they present their family history, stories, and poems.

Students will listen to the teacher read aloud.

Students will listen to the teacher explain advertising.

Language Arts: Viewing Activities

Students will view television advertisements.

Students will view magazine advertisements.

Students will create art projects and posters of different foods and view other students work.

Students will view different video clips about food.

Students will view different interactive games about food and nutrition.

Students will view the My Plate guidelines.

Language Arts: Visually Representing

Activities

Students will create a poster of the

current “My Plate” with color and labels.

Students will create a food flow chart

illustrating their favorite foods.

Students will view the word wall.

Students will view recipes from families.

A “Family Cook Book.”

Science Activities

The importance of food in order to grow and stay Healthy (learn about why you get sick)

Study the Food Chain by creating a poster and using the website (view technology).

Learn about the ecosystem by viewing a video clip named “What is an Ecosystem” and identify different ecosystems and food chains through maps and worksheets. (View technology)

Classification of fruits and vegetables. Bring in different fruits and vegetables cut them up and have students classify them. Once they do this they may eat them for a healthy snack. Then create a poster while eating.

Learn how food grows by growing a class garden. (Sun, soil, water). Map out their growth each day. Can be integrated in with math.

Science Standards

3. 2. 3- Record observations (e.g.,

journals, drawings, charts) based on

simple investigations.

3. 4. 2- Describe the life cycles of plants

and animals (e.g. birds, mammals,

grasses, trees, insects, flowers)

3. 4. 3- Identify the needs of living things

(e.g. food, shelter, soil, space, water)

Mathematics Activities

Fraction/addition/subtraction Pizzas.

Create a bar chart comparing health advertisements and junk food advertisements.

Grocery shopping simulation. (Students receive a budget and have to create a healthy meal within that budget.)

Work with conversions and cooking measurements (Ounces, Pounds, Liters, Pints, etc.)

Measurement of growth of plants in the class garden.

Math Standards

3.NBT.2- Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

3.NF.1- Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b.

3. MD. 2- Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects using standard units of grams (g), kilograms (kg), and liters (l). Add, subtract, multiply, or divide to solve one-step word problems involving masses or volumes that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as a beaker with a measurement scale) to represent the problem.

3 MD. 3- Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Solve one- and two-step “how many more” and “how many less” problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs.

Social Studies Activities

Each week students will study a different cultures food, they will participate in creating art from that culture to decorate the class room.

Students will study climates of different areas of the world.

Students will lay out a map of what types of food are common to eat or grow in these different cultures.

After studying each culture, students will participate in a lunch of a traditional dish from each culture. (Different cultures will be laid out for different weeks, or a culture can be voted on by the class. Be aware of students allergies.)

Social Study Standards

3. 3. 1- Identify ways families and communities

cooperate and compromise (e.g., fundraisers, food

pantries, living within your means) to meet needs

and wants.

3. 3. 3- Explain the differences among natural and

human resources, and how they are used locally.

3.5.1- Identify the physical characteristics (e.g.,

landforms, bodies of water, vegetation, wildlife and

climate) of the local community.

Music and Art Activities

Students will explore different styles of art and music through different cultures.

Create your own lunch box. Students will receive a piece of paper with an open lunch box printed on it, then students will draw/color the food they chose to put in their lunch box.

Create a “My Plate” place mat. Students will work in groups to cut out food advertisements and glue them on their plate to create their own balanced meal.

Sing Apples and Bananas with the whole class using all the vowels

The Vegetable Song

Apples and Bananas

I like to ate, ate, ate, apples and bananas

I like to eat, eat, eat, epples and benenes

I like to iat, iat, iat, ipples, and bininis

I like to oat, oat, oat, opples and bononos

I like to uat, uat, uat, upples and bununus

Vegetables Are Good For Us

Tune: “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” Carrots, celery and broccoli,

Vegetables are good for me.

For my snack and in my lunch,

Vegetables are great to munch.

Carrots, celery, and broccoli,

Vegetables are good for me.

Bell Pepper, cauliflower, asparagus,

Vegetables are good for us.

In our lunch and on our plate,

Vegetables are really great

Bell Pepper, cauliflower, asparagus,

Vegetables are good for us.

Music and Art Standards

4. 1. 5- Sing in groups.

4. 6. 2- Know a variety of styles representing divers cultures.

4. 1. 2- Know the different techniques used to create visual art.

4. 1. 6- Use visual art materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

4. 4. 1- Know that visual art has both a history and specific relationship to various cultures.

Physical Education Activities

A relay to “My Plate”

Food vocabulary relay based off of the word wall.

Movement activity based on healthy food and junk food ( example- call out a healthy food students must perform a sprint, call out a junk food students must do sit-ups) Tie in energy.

“No Satisfaction” (consumer issues on health) There is a Satisfied Zone and a Non-Satisfied Zone with in the class room. The teacher uses appropriate issues facing today’s health each student then goes to the zone best describing the issue. Once they are there they must run (satisfied) or jump to a line just out of reach (Non-satisfied) and explain why they are there to the other students.

Physical Education Standards

3. 1. 1- Demonstrate mature form in running.

3. 1. 3- Demonstrate mature form in skipping.

3. 1. 4- Use locomotor skills to complete a task.

3. 5. 1- Demonstrate responsibility for their safe use of shared space.

3. 5. 2- Demonstrate cooperation and respect to others, in pairs, to achieve a common goal during physical activities.

Technology

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/explorer/ecosystems/be_an_explorer/map/foodweb_play.htm (Food Chain)

http://www.neok12.com/Ecosystems.htm (Ecosystem video, work sheets, maps).

Appropriate television viewing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd-2j_1_6vY (The Vegetable song).

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/7664/preview/ (Flu Virus Game).

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/7658/preview/ (Freddy’s Healthy Food Game).

View an episode of supersize me documentary. (YouTube clips, on Hulu, Netflix, Public Library).

Internet sites on multi-cultural food recipes.

http://www.choosemyplate.gov/supertracker-tools/daily-food-plans.html (My Plate guidelines, diets, videos).

Language Art Strategies

Activating background knowledge- students will think of what they already know about food.

Brainstorming- students will think of ideas related to food, health, and the food chain through their writing activities.

Connecting- Students will make connections to the world by learning and sharing their family history and traditional dishes.

Monitoring- Students will monitor their food intake by keeping a daily log through out the unit.

Revising- Students will make changes to written activities

Playing with language (Poems).

Language Arts Skills

Comprehension- Students will

understand the difference between

fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Students

will participate in a final “jeopardy” game

to compare healthy to junk food.

Language- Students will apply skills in

their writing, and speaking activities.

Grouping Patterns

Large groups- Read aloud, grand conversations, grocery simulation, sharing poems, stories, family history, food fight, music activities, cultural lunch, and "Supersize Me” clip.

Small group- Relay to “My plate,” family culture, bar chart comparisons, “No satisfaction,” “My Plate” poster, and word relay.

Individual- short story, poem,, lunchbox, place mat, interactive web games, movement games for physical education, viewing advertisements, pizza equations, conversions, research on family history, social studies world map, planting own food, and research of different cultures music and art.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Language Arts -Read aloud Gregory the

Terrible Eater

-Read aloud EEK! Icky,

Sticky, Gross Stuff in

Your Food

-Teacher Reads Let’s Eat:

Children and Their Food

Around the World

-Create a KWL Chart

-Add words to the word

wall

-Grand Conversation

-Start food journal

-Start brainstorming for

the food story

-Read to self The Very

Hungry Caterpillar

-Teacher reads Good

Enough to Eat

-Create a KWL chart

-Add words to the word

wall

-Write in food journal

-Finish brainstorming for

food story

-Start writing food story

-Start research on favorite

food/food allergies

-Read to a partner The

Magic School Bus Gets

Eaten: Book About Food

Chains

-Read aloud It’s

Disgusting and We Ate

It! True Food Facts From

Around the World and

Throughout History

-Create a KWL chart

-Add words to the word

wall

-Write in food journal

-Finish food story

-Read to self Green Eggs

and Ham

- Teacher reads Food

Rules: The Stuff You

Munch, Its Crunch, Its

Punch, and Why You

Sometimes Lose Your

Lunch

-Create a KWL chart

-Add words to the word

wall

-Write in food journal

-Share food Story Write

concrete Poem about food

-Write a short essay based

on research

-Read to partner If You

Give a Mouse a Cookie

-Create a KWL chart

-Finish Food Journal

-Share Concrete Poem

-Share short essay on

favorite foods/allergies

Physical Education/

Health

-Movement Activity

based on Healthy and

Non Healthy foods

-“No Satisfaction” -View “My Plate

guidelines”

http://www.choosemyplat

e.gov

-A relay to “My Plate”

-Word relay based on the

words from the word wall

-“Supersize Me Clip”

- Movement activity

Identifying healthy and

non healthy food.

Math -Fraction/addition/

subtraction pizza’s

-Collect data from

advertisements by viewing

magazines and television.

Count how many healthy

advertisements to non-

healthy advertisements

-Collaborate with class

and create a bar chart

based on results from

advertisements

-Study conversions and

cooking measurements

(Ounces, Pounds, Liters,

Pints, etc.)

-Grocery shopping

simulation

Social Studies Students begin research

on their family culture

- Start collecting recipes

from family’s for “Family

cookbook.”

-Create a map of their

family culture and the

food that is common from

their culture.

- Continue collecting

recipes from family’s for

“Family cookbook.”

-Study the climate in

different parts of the

world

-Add other major

countries and traditional

foods for the map

- Continue collecting

recipes from family’s for

“Family cookbook.”

-Share family history and

traditional foods

-Continue collecting

recipes from family’s for

“Family cookbook.”

-- View cultural website s

for recipes.

-Participate in a

traditional lunch from a

different culture of

students choice

-Put the “Family

cookbook” together.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Science -Learn how to classify

fruits and vegetables by

bringing in different

fruits and vegetables.

Then create poster

-Freddy’s Healthy Food

Game

-View

http://www.pbs.org/

teachers (see technology

for full website)

-Learn about how food

grows

-Plant a food for them to

take home to take care of.

-Watch “What is an

Ecosystem” and identify

different ecosystems and

food chains through maps

and worksheets

http://www.neok12.com/

Ecosystems.htm

- Begin measuring food

growth

-Learn about ecosystems

-Food Chain Web

-View

http://teahcer.scholastic.

com/activities (see

technology for full

website)

-Continue measurements

of food growth.

-Study the importance of

food in order to stay

Healthy (learn how

people get sick)

-Flue game

-View

http://www.pbs.org/

teachers (see technology

for full website)

-Continue measurements

of food growth.

Music/Art -Exploration of different

cultures music/art (chose

a traditional piece of art

to create any culture of

your choice.)

-Sing Apples and

Bananas

-Sing the Vegetable song

-View

http://www.youtube.com

(See technology for full

website.)

Create a “My Plate”

Place mat.

-Create your own lunch

box

Assessment

Collect all KWL charts and food journals: Rubric.

Observation of participation in conversations and activities.

Food poster, family history presentation, around the world poster, fruit and vegetable poster, grocery simulation, garden growth, and bar chart comparing advertisements-check list.

Portfolio and classroom critique of art work.

Poetry numerical score sheet.

6+1 Language Assessment- essay and short story.

Collect all worksheets for science ecosystem maps, fraction/addition/subtraction pizza, and cooking measurements.