Peer Response 1

· Review your classmates’ activity plans and respond. Review this plan from the perspective of both the director and a parent. Share what you liked about this activity, explain any possible issues, and state how you think the children will respond. Include one suggestion to enhance this activity. Respond in at least 100 words.

PEERS POST:

Early Learning (4-5 years)

NAEYC Standard 5- Health

My activity would be a Fall Harvest Party to invite the Families to. After spending the Summer growing vegetables and herbs in our classroom garden, the children would help chop, season, and mix together Fall harvest vegetable soup and salad to be served at our party. A signup sheet for donations for fruit to create a fruit salad during the party would be posted with the invite. 

Disclaimer: This would all have to be modified with enhanced COVID protocols. I am pretending this was pre-pandemic. 

Group discussion at the beginning of the party:

The teacher would share with the families the objectives of having a class garden. The children nurtured it, observed it growing, studied the changes, taste tested, learned about nutrition, learned about our earth, and helped cook a meal from their harvest. 

Activities for Parents and children:

Station 1: Fruit salad in a cup- Parents help the children chop and mix the fresh fruit with honey and basil from our garden.

Station 2: Apple study- Having a bowl of apples, a scale, clipboards, and questions, the family chooses an apple and answers a few questions about it on the clipboards provided. What color is it? How big is it? What does it look like inside? What does it taste like?

Station 3: Community mealtime opportunity- Tablecloth, classical music playing, soup and salad, a class made centerpiece, and place settings.

Station 4: Corn shucking contest- Parents (they are blindfolded) against children (they are not). Corn is washed and frozen for later activities (It is not respectful to all cultures to use food for activities and throw it away). 

-Angela Schleick