Letter of the Week--N for Nutrition

These two love to make "Lunchable", they have had maybe one store bought one before, but they love the idea of it and want to make homemade ones often.  Here is their lunch/snack (lunch eaten really late one day) following the food pyramid.

While reading Delaney's math book, Life of Fred- Butterflies, we came accross the protagonist of the story learning a lesson about nutrition.  A few weeks earlier, while browsing through the shelves of the library I found a new set of book, each one on the different parts of the food pyramid at Delaney's reading level. I thought, they would be fun to use sometime, but at the time I didn't want to start a random mini-unit study on nutrition...just hold that thought till later.  Later came, we had great discussion about the importance of eating the right foods, exercise and the Word of Wisdom.   "N" became the letter of the week for Liam.

We pulled in some work with rulers and how to measure while creating theire own pyramids

They found pictures from magazines for each of the groups....it was quite easy to find

 the fats/sweets group they discovered.

We picked up a few cookbooks to look through and find some tasty treats.

Here is Liam with his nutrition wreathe.

Now Delaney is inspired to learn how to cook.  She has the goal to make a loaf of bread and bake a cake all by herself with out my help! A nutritious cake, of course :)