Lesson Plan

In My Garden Sing Along

Overview

As part of a thematic lesson on vegetables, sing a song with your students to identify all the healthy foods that grow in gardens.

Objective

After completing the unit plan, students will:

  1. Gain the knowledge and skills to select a diet that supports health and reduces the risk of illness and future chronic diseases. ~ Massachusetts Health Curriculum Framework
  2. Identify a variety of fruits and vegetables and how they are grown and harvested.
  3. Identify the connection between food served in the home with regional food production. ~ Massachusetts Health Curriculum Framework

 

Materials

  • chart paper
  • marker

Set Up and Prepare

  • Use chart paper to write out the verses to In My Garden (PDF).
  • Add illustrations of the featured plants and foods to the chart.
  • Post the chart in your meeting area.

Directions

Gather students in the meeting area and have a discussion about the kinds of food they might grow in a garden.  Talk about the parts of the plant that are edible and where they might find those parts.  Read through In My Garden chart with students before singing as a class.

Supporting All Learners

Have ingredients written on sentence strips with pictures of the vegetables as visual cues.  Pre-teach soup cooking in your dramatic play center, using plastic vegetables.

Lesson Extensions

  1. Have students write new lines to the song and share them with classmates.
  2. Perform the song for neighboring classes.
  3. Have students create their own illustrations for the song.

Home Connection

Send home a copy of the song for children to share with parents.  Submit student photos and illustrations, with song lyrics, to your school newsletter and include them in your class newsletter.

Assignments

  1. Make a list of vegetables you find in your home refrigerator.   
  2. Make papier mache vegetable props to use in the song.

Evaluation

  1. Was I clear in my directions?
  2. Was I prepared and set up with the proper materials?
  3. Would I do anything differently next time?

Assess Students

  1. Are students engaged and on task?

  • Subjects:
    Cooking, Outdoor Activities and Recreation, Songs and Rhymes, Music
  • Duration:
    1 Hr
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