Head Start - Fruits & Veggies: 101

Fruits & Veggies: 101

 Pat's Lesson on Citrus

Citrus Class - Oranges, Lemons, Limes, Grapefruits, Pomelos (Chinese Grapefruit)

The children learned the fruit's color on the outside and inside along with how they smell and feel.

Pat showed the kids how to peel an orange.

 

The kids learned a poem about an orange tree ... they later glued this poem on to the back
 of the orange tree that they made.

Following Pat's Lesson on Citrus the kids went to three different stations to learn more about Citrus!  At the stations there were able to use their different senses to learn more about citrus. 

Citrus Stations:

Art Station:  Each kid glued a tree onto their paper and then cut out 5 oranges and glued them onto their tree.
On the back they glued on the poem about an Orange Tree that they just learned.

Juice Station:  Ron helped all of the kids to make Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice.



Taste Station:  Each child was given a tangerine that they each peeled and ate.
They also tasted slices of ... lemon, lime, grapefruit and pomelo.

Art Station:

Gluing on the tree trunk

Cutting out the oranges

Gluing on the oranges

Making their own Orange Tree

The Head Start Orange Tree

The Head Start Orange Tree

Juice Station:

Each child got to help to squeeze the oranges

Making their own Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice

Taste Station:

For some of the kids this was their first time peeling a tangerine by them selves.

Tasting all types of citrus!

Head Start - Fruits & Veggies: 101

Fruits & Veggies: 101

Head Start

Parents Nutritional Education

4 grams of sugar = 1 teaspoon of sugar

A parent won this during the Nutrition Class - 1 bag of apples and an apple cutter!

Pat is showing the parents the poem about Oranges that their children learned in the class.

Each parent takes home a bag of produce after attending one of our parent nutrition classes.

Pat is teaching the parents about sugar.

Pat is showing the parents the Orange Tree that their children made in the Fruits & Veggies class.

Pat and Ron teach the Fruits & Veggies: 101 course! 

They do a fabulous job and the children (ages 3-5) really learn a lot!

The teachers are provided a hands-on learning experience on nutritional education as well.

Garden Club - Worms!

This week the Garden Club learned about ...

How to build a Worm Composting Bin and what it takes to keep the worms happy! 

The garden club kids started off the day by playing in the dirt :)



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They all had a great time shoveling and breaking breaking down the dirt clumps! 



The kids took turns filling up the buckets with dirt and dumping the dirt into the garden boxes.

A lot of the garden club kids are able for the first time to work in the garden.

 

Building a Worm Composting Bin

1st step ...

Find two like-plastic storage bins with lids.  One foot of surface area per pound of worms. One pound of worms is able to compost a ½ pound of food per day.

2nd step ...

Poke holes in the sides and bottom of one of the bins.

 

3rd step ...

Get scrap paper or newspaper and tear/cut into ½  to 1 inch strips of paper.  The garden club kids had a lot of fun tearing up the paper :)

4th step ...

Get the paper wet!  This was so much fun!  Who doesn't like playing in water!?!?

5th step ...

Add 1 handful of dirt or about 3 kid size hand fulls of dirt.

6th step ...

Add the worms!

Lets the worms get settled for awhile before you give them any food.

Add ½ lb of compost per pound of worms.

Find two like-plastic storage bins. One foot of surface area per pound of worms. One pound of worms is able to compost a ½ pound of food per day.

Resolution Revolution January 11, 2011

On the 11th of January, HELP through a party at Zeph's to thank all of their supporters! 

Here is the article that Off 68 wrote covering this event:  Article Link: HELP's New Year’s Resolution Party

Gina Nucci, board president of HELP, receives a donation from the CEO of Pro Act, Max Yeater, during the event.

 Molly Jansen displays the pledges made by people to eat more vegetables this year during the Healthy Eating Lifestyle Principles' "Healthy" New Year's reception Jan. 11 in Salinas.

HELP executive director Suzanne du Verrier mingles with friends and coworkers during the Healthy Eating Lifestyle Principles' "Healthy" New Year's reception Jan. 11 in Salinas.

Garden Club

This week the Garden Club learned about ...

 Plastics effect on the planet, recycling, composting, plants and plant parts!



The Effet on the Earth from Plastic

 

 The recycle program at their own school - how each kid can make a difference!



What Composting is and How to Compost at home in the school garden

 There were about 60 kids in the BEST after school program that were present at the presentation. 



The kids each took home a recycled bag that they can use when they go to the store instead of using plastic bags!

Worm Composting

At the end of the presentation the Garden Club kids stayed for an extra presentation on

Composting with Worms! 



 The kids were able see the soil that the worms have made out of the food that they have consumed.



The kids were able to hold the worms

The Garden Club also learned about Plants!

The kids were able to get a better idea of how plants grow with this painting/poster.

Plant Parts:  Roots, Stem, Leaves, Flower, Fruit, Seeds



Each student was given a picture of a fruit or vegetable and they had to decide what plant part group it belonged in.