Theme: Vegetables
Learning points:
Awareness about vegetables: Touch/Taste/Sight/Color/Smell/Shape/Size
Importance of eating vegetables(benefits and health values)
How to consume a vegetable? (Wash, peel, cut etc.)
Parts of a vegetable (Seed, skin, flesh etc)
Classification of vegetables with respect to taste (sweet, sour, bitter etc.), where they are found etc
Conversation with dialogues
Gardening (Sowing vegetable seeds)
Field trip: A visit to vegetable market/shop
Observation of vegetables in the garden
Awareness about salad
Experience to prepare salad with different vegetables
Awareness about the difference between the raw vegetables and cooked vegetables with practical experience
Observation about how the root vegetables are found under the ground
Awareness about the leafy vegetables and their health values
Tasting all the leafy vegetables
Words in focus: potato, tomato, carrot, cabbage, cauliflower, capsicum, onion, cucumber, pumpkin, broccoli, corn, turnip, zucchini, celery, brinjal
Encyclopedia cards: potato, tomato, carrot, cabbage, cauliflower, capsicum, onion, cucumber, pumpkin, broccoli, corn, celery, turnip, zucchini, brinjal
Numbers(dot cards): 41-50
Physical activities: Hanging from a rod, walking on a balancing beam, threading the beads, jumping, running behind a ball, walking forwards and backwards, crawling, transferring grains from one bowl to another bowl, playing with jigsaw puzzles, walk on a straight line
Prayers of the month:
Starting prayer: Gayatri Mantra
Om bhoor bhuwah swaha,
Tat savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasaya dheemahi
Dhiyo yo naha prachodayat
Closing Prayer: Devi prayer
Sarva Mangala Mangalye
Shive Sarvartha Sadhike
Sharanye Triyambike Gauri
Narayani Namostute
Food Prayer:
sah-na bhavatu, sah-nau bhunaktu;
sah viryam karvavahe,
tejasvinav adhitam-astu
maa vidhvishawahe
Om shanti shanti shanti
Rhymes:
Good morning song:
Good morning, to you and to you
Good morning, to you and to you
Hello everyone
Hello everyone
Good morning to you and to you
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Good bye song:
Good –bye my friends
Good –bye my friends
Good –bye my friends
We’ll all meet again tomorrow!
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Hand wash song:
Wash, wash, wash, wash your hands,
After work and play
Scrub and rinse and shake and dry
And wash those germs away!
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Clean up Song (Tune: The Farmer in the Dell)
Let’s clean up today!
Let’s clean up today!
We’ve had our fun,
Our play is done,
So, let’s clean up today!
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Laal Laal Tamater,
gol gol tamater,
dekhne mein sunder,
khane mein khatta-meetha.
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Carrot carrot carrot, what color are you?
Sometime red, sometimes orange, that’s the color of me.
Carrot carrot carrot, what shape are you?
Conical conical, that’s the shape of me.
Carrot carrot carrot, where do I find you?
Under the ground, under the ground, that’s where I grow.
Carrot carrot carrot, how do I eat you?
When you eat me, hear the sound – (make the chewing sound inside mouth)
When you drink me feel my sweetness, shhhhhhh aaha
I am very healthy vegetable, I have got lots of prana
Children children children, listen to what I say
Eat me every day and keep the doctor away
Keep the doctor awaaaaaaayyyyyyyy.
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Red like an apple
Yellow like the sun
Blue like a swimming pool is so much fun
The primary colors, they are red, yellow, blue
And when I sing a song about them
I get the red and yellow and blues
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You take the primary colors
Which you know are red, yellow, blue
To get the secondary colors
Here’s all you have to do
Red and yellow make orange (CHA CHA CHA)
Blue and yellow make green (CHA CHA CHA)
Red and blue make purple (CHA CHA CHA)
I think you know what I mean (CHA CHA CHA)
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Carrot carrot carrot, what color are you?
Sometimes red, sometimes orange
That’s the color of me
Carrot carrot carrot, what shape are you?
Conical conical, that’s the shape of me
Carrot carrot carrot, where do I find you?
Under the ground, under the ground
Thats the place of me
Should I eat you or should I drink you, tell me what to do?
Tell me what to do, please tell me what to do?
Whether you eat me or drink me, it will make you strong
Strong strong strong strong strong
I am a very healthy vegetable, I have got lots of prana
Have me every meal and strike a splendid deal
When you eat me hear my sound ……..
When you drink me fell my sweetness……….
Children children children, listen to what I say
Have me everyday and keep the doctor away
