Food Unit
Food Packages

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Food Packages
Food Word Wall
Guess the Secret Food
What did you have for breakfast?
My Favorite Foods Book
Food Songs
Nursery Rhymes
Food Poems
What did you have for lunch?
Milk
At The Supermarket
Restaurant Menus
Honey Cookies
Pancake Measuring
Candy graphing
The Carrot Seed
The Food Pyramid
It Looked Like Spilt Milk
Strega Nona
Learning Log
References and Resources

Objectives
Students will use authentic items to meaningfully develop emergent literacy.
Students will see authentic reasons for needing to read.

Materials
parent letter
empty food packages

Procedure
1.Send home parent letter asking for empty food packages.
2.When students bring in packages, examine the words on them as a group.
3.Have students come up and circle items they recognize.
4.Add empty packages to the supermarket center.

Special Accommodations
Send translated letters home, if necessary.
Encourage students to bring in items that have languages other than English on them.