Plan a Fun, Food-Related Unit Study

This strikes me as something that would be fun to do during the summer, or to have a couple of easy activities on hand when you need some quiet time.

Life Over C’s has collected more than 50 food-related activities that you can use to build a food unit study or use independently.

There are math games, projects related to stories, crafts, food science experiments and, of course, sensory fun with food.

Why not spend a day reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar complete with food props, while drinking color-changing lemonade and making apple art?

You could also add in recipes, a trip to the grocery store, farm stand or farmer’s market, and lots of other things, too.

There’s some really great, fun-sounding stuff here. Go check it out!

[Photo: Life Over C’s.] Looking for more resources? Check out these board games for learning Math and Multiplication?

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Apple Sensory Play Ideas

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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