Hey Lunch Box Kids-

I've never made a movie before, so I'm excited to start working on this! I'm thinking about making my movie on how to set a table because that's what I focued on for my lesson plan. I was thinking it would be a great way to lead into table manners and etiquette. What do you think?! Your ideas sound great!

xoxo
Ali

Hi Bloggers!

Just wanted to share my new websites with you:

http://www.a-to-z-of-manners-and-etiquette.com/table-manners-for-children.html

http://www.kids-cooking-activities.com/kids-cooking-lessons-assistant-chef-intro.html

Hi Girls-

I decided to do my lesson plan on "How to Set a Basic Table." It goes along well with our other topic of utensils. I also wanted to bring in the aspect of table manners and etiquette into our unit so I think this will be a great place to start!

Nice work so far!!

xoxo
Ali

I plan on doing my "Movie Maker" clip on somthing pertaning to Safety in the Kitch for Kids. Not sure specifically what type of safety or what procedure i wil talk about put it will be something along the lines of how to stay safe in the kitchen... kind of still brain-storming. If you have any suggestions, or better ideas, let me know please :)

Movie Maker

Girls,

Wow!! This seems challenging but fun!
I am planning on doing my movie maker project on serving sizes and the food pyramid.
I'll let you know if it changes!

xoxo,
Megan

Hey Girls!
I found a really cute website that i think that we should use. Its by Dole. I kinda played around on it a bit, but think that it could be useful.
http://www.dole.com/

See you in Class!

oh yes... hope your February 14th was full of LOVE! xoxo!

Lesson Plan

Hi Bloggers,

For our lesson plans we decided to use the same topic as we did for the web eval (besides Ali...for different reasons...ughhhh!!!!)

As a reminder, I'll be doing Health/Nutrition!

Xo,
Megan

As i did last week for Web Evals, ill do the Lesson Plans on Cooking/Kitchen Safety. Also if stumble across any helpful sources for either of you ill be sure to post them here for you guys! Keep up the good work, as always lovely working with the 2 of you :)

Google Map

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Here are my three websites:

http://www.growingcooks.com/alecartitems.html

http://www.kidscentralkitchen.com/category.aspx?categoryID=2

http://www.kids-cooking-activities.com/kids-cooking-products.html

The Lunch Box Kids ePals

The Lunch Box Kids ePals Assignment



Megan Bell

Ali Legut

Meghan Bonk

• 
  Who are the students your students will communicate with (specific location, grade level)?

The students who we will be communicating with are in Kindergarten from
Tampa, Florida. We decided to do kindergarten because that age group
interests us the most. We think it is important to start learning good
nutritional practices at a very young age. By using ePals and
communicating with other Kindergartners from a very different climate
than the one we live in in Michigan, we can learn about the types of
food they eat and grow as well gain an insight as to what they know
about good nutritional practices.

• 
  When would your students contact these other students (at what point in their project work)?

The students will contact the other students
during all points in the project. It is important to have ongoing
communication for this lesson. The students can gather ideas and useful
information from each other on a daily basis, through ongoing monitored email correspondence, that will help with the
cooking/kitchen project. Working with students from Florida and keeping an ongoing communication is key in the students' project work.

• 
  What kinds of questions would they ask each other and what kinds of information would they share?

What kind of food is grown in your area?
Are there local food markets?
How does the food get to the markets?
What are your favorite types of food?
What are the healthy foods grown in your area?
Do you know what proper servings are?
Are you able to identify the major food groups?
Are the eight essential nutrients our bodies need to be healthy present in your food you consume?
How much sugar does each student intake on a daily basis?
What fast food places are near you? Why are they unhealthy?
Do you know about obesity?
Why are some people vegans and vegetarians? Do you know about their lifestyles?
How much Vitamin C is actually in Florida Oranges?
What are some exercise activities people do in Florida to stay healthy?

• 
  What will they do with the information they get from the other students?
  

The information they will gain will help them understand food better. They can use this information to make comparisons with the students in Florida.They can make graphs with the information they receive and share them with their peers.  They can send each other recipes, nutrition facts, and other information related to cooking. The information they gain at the end of the this unit can be taken home and shared with their families and friends. The information can lead to a healthier and more active lifestyle.

Lately i've been researching some websites for my lead week at the Pre-school that i Intern at and gotton some inspiration for us! i have stumbled across a lot of good sites that we can pull some information off of and use for some and cool ideas too. I also found Literacy site that addresses Vocabularuy about Heather/Nutrition as well as another about Safety that we caoudl use for futher professionalizing our concept mapping. later Lunch boxers!

Hey Lunch Boxers!
Sorry i was unable to attend on Monday, a lil under the weather, however im ready to go and will do whatever is needed to catch up and make our website great! Hope you guys can catch me up to speed, see you in OPEN LAB!!

Hey Fellow Lunch Box Kids~*~

Megan, we have a great start on this assignment! Although we have answered all the questions, I think we should go back and add to our initial answers. Meghan, we will for sure catch you up either this week or next Monday in class. This assignment is not due until February 19th so we have some time! Megan and I have decided to communicate with kindergartners from Tampa, Florida. We thought this would be fun for our students to communicate with other students who live in a warm climate. =) Do we want to get together to finish this during lab or another time?

xoxo
Ali

ps- I still have to add my websites from last week. Sorry I haven't gotten to it yet!! I will for sure have it done before Friday. =)

B-loggers

We started our new assignment! We are off to a really good start, but we need to add a little more details. Meghan, We will catch you up on this when you're in class next week. We might have to go to Open Lab on Friday to complete this.
This ePal assignment is due on 2/19 so we still have some time to work on it!

Love you all!

Ps. We could map the path of something. Example-follow something from the field to how it gets packaged and ends up in the store!

Here are my three websites!

www.nutritionexplorations.org/

www.nutritionforkids.com/

/www.ext.nodak.edu/food/kidsnutrition/