WHERE FOOD COMES FROM?

If you ask most young children where food comes from, they will say, “Supermarket”  Ask them how you get the food and they will tell you, “You buy it with money.”  Sadly, many adults would answer the same.  That’s why is so important teaching children about plants and gardening.  They’ll grow up confident  knowing that they can grow their own food and don’t have to rely solely on an outside source.

I recommend you this book to work in class "Ugly Vegetables", author Grace Lin. This book is aimed at Infants and Primary Students (4-8 years old).

IDEAS & ACTIVITIES AFTER READING THE BOOK

After reading this book about a family’s garden full of Chinese vegetables, we could talk about which of the vegetables we might grow so that we too could make the delicious soup the book describes. (The recipe’s included.) Planting a garden in the school, even a small one in containers could be a good idea in a spring time to do with our kids. Also you can link with other issues (healthy eating, physical activity, natural world, etc.)

I attached you the link which plenty of activities you can do after reading the book:

- Colouring page

- Lesson Suggestion: Plant a garden!

- Chinese Lesson

- Performance: The Ugly Vegetables Play

- Recipe: Ugly Vegetable Soup