Our Learning Journey about Healthy Eating

Our Learning About

Healthy Eating

By Group 29

What is healthy food?

Link to the Early Years Learning Framework -
Outcome 3: Children show awareness of healthy lifestyles and good
nutrition

"I don't like broccoli! It tastes yucky!" - Leo.

"I like broccoli! My mum said it could make you strong, and you can climb up very high on the climbing frame!" - Darcy.

24th April 2023 Monday

Over the weeks, the children have spent much time and engaged in pretend cooking experiences in the home corner. They chose the food toy and adapted existing knowledge to create their dishes.
Of course, the most popular cooking is cakes and ice cream.
But, one day, Isabel said to her friends: "Ice cream is sometimes food. You can't have it all the time."

What is sometimes food? What is Healthy food?

This week, we incorporated digital technology - Scratch Junior, in our program to support children continually exploring sometimes food and healthy food. By clicking on the food image in the circle, the little cat will help children to identify if it's healthy food or not. The children cooperated in the group and recognised and identified their favourite food. They also asked questions to express their wonder and shared excitement and joy by giggling and laughing together.

Exploring the Healthy Eating Guideline with Beebots

Link to the EYLF - Outcome 4: Children develop a range of learning and thinking skills and processes such as problem-solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating

1st May 2023 Monday

To extend children's interests and learning, this week, we explored the healthy eating guideline with Buzzzzzing Beebots. The children were encouraged to choose the food from different categories. Then, by programming the steps, they will control the Beebots to collect their selected food.

The children collaborated and shared their thoughts and ideas to program the Beebots and contribute to the teamwork.
Some children noticed their peers got frustrated when the Beebot kept turning in the wrong direction. They offered each other help and cooperated to overcome the challenge.

In the experience, children were persistent, even when the first attempt wasn't successful. They showed care and concern for each other and worked together to contribute to the common goal.

Eating Healthy - Rice Paper Roll Making

Link to the EYLF - Outcome 5: Children use digital technologies and media to access information, investigate ideas and represent their thinking

8th May 2023 Monday

To continue exploring healthy eating, this week, we decided to demonstrate the knowledge we learnt and create our own healthy dish - rice paper roll.

The children engaged in the group discussion and decided on the ingredients we would like to use in our cooking experience. We reviewed the healthy eating guideline and picked one ingredient from each category.

Now, it's cooking time!

First, we need to cut all the vegetables...

"This is a cucumber, and that is a bigger one," Charlie said while we cut the ingredients.
"No! The bigger one is called zucchini!" Leo said.
"What's the difference between the cucumber and zucchini?" the educator inquired.

"The zucchini is bigger, and its colour is darker," Tom answered.
"The cucumber feels bumpy, but the zucchini is smooth." Mia commended.
"Look! You can see through the cucumber, but the zucchini is white inside." Isabel picked up a piece of cucumber towards the light.

When we opened the capsicum, the children were amazed by how many seeds were inside of it. They used their fingers to touch and feel them and noticed that the seeds had fallen off.
Of course, we would like to have a taste of it!

Our filling is ready! Isabel pointed to the cut ingredients and said: "look! It's like a rainbow!" Then, she sang the 'I can see the rainbow' song to us.

The children demonstrated excellent hand-eye coordination skills.

Voila! Here is our rice paper roll!
Bon appetit!

Reviewing Our Learning

9th May 2023 Tuesday
Today, the children engaged in the drawing experience to review and document their learning from the cooking experience. They used the marks and colours to represent the food they saw and tasted yesterday and created their art piece.

These are the noodles. You can't see it on the white paper, so brown is fine.

This is tomato. It is red and has little dots on it. Is that seeds?

This is the wrap. It's clear, just like the yellow. You almost can't see it.

By Alisia

This is the little corn. They are my favourite because it tastes sweet. What is the little thing inside it? You know, the little yellow thing.

These are cucumber slices. Can you see the little seeds in it? They are see-through.

This is a zucchini slice. You can't really see anything in it, but you can see the thick skin outside.

Cucumber skin got little dots on it. It feels very bumpy.

By Issac

This is a zucchini. It is much bigger than a cucumber and it has a big tummy.

After lunchtime, Amelia practised her fine motor skill and rolling technique and created her clay roll.
She rolled the clay into a small ball and firmly pressed it to make it flat. Then, she manipulated the roller to make it thinner. Amelia added some small balls to it to pretend the filling. Finally, she coordinated both hands to wrap everything up and showed it to her peers and the educator.

Arlo spread the green paint all over the paper in the outdoor area and said: "I had capsicum yesterday. It was really big, almost the same size as the paper. "