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**Task - Healthy food chart & fruity face **
The task we have chosen is for children in the Early Childhood years to learn and understand the importance of //HealthyEating//. With the world experiencing an obese and unhealthy epidemic, we believe that teaching children from an early age about the importance of healthy eating is paramount for them to lead a healthy life and active lifestyle. Over a period of one week, for approximately 45 minutes each morning, the students will learn the importance of healthy eating. Day one will incorporate a mat session about this topic, followed by a 5 minute movie in relation to healthy food and why it is important for everybody. Children of this age learn more by carrying out activities physically and in groups rather than just ‘talking’ and theory. On saying this, the children will be placed into small groups to carry out the project which includes them looking through magazines for ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ foods, cutting them out (this incorporates the use and development of their fine motor skills) and pasting them onto a poster under ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ headings. The goal of this project is for children to understand the difference between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ food choices. To keep this activity ‘fun’ and enjoyable for them, on the 5th day, we will have an array of different fruits, vegetables and cheeses cut up for them to make a ‘happy fruity face’…their reward? Eating their creative fruity face…after having a photo taken with their creation!


 * __Day 1__ – __Mat Session__**
 * Students sit in front of their teacher whilst he/she explains what is healthy and unhealthy food and why it is good and bad for you
 * Students will then watch a quick 5 minute movie about the benefits of healthy eating - Elmo visits the White House Kitchen. (YouTube 2010)
 * Questions will then be asked about this topic to gain an understanding of students knowledge

**__Day 2__ – __Cutting pictures from magazines and old food catalogs__** (Swarns 2012)
 * Refresh students with questions from yesterdays session on healthy eating
 * Students will then be allocated into small groups of 4/5
 * Each group then looks through magazines for what they believe are healthy and unhealthy foods, cut them out and put them into relevant piles
 * __Day 3__ – __Creating a Healthy Food chart__**
 * Students will again be asked questions on this topic, in order to refresh their memories for this next activity
 * In their groups, students will be instructed to paste what they think and what they have chosen from yesterdays activity onto their chart under the headings ‘Healthy’ and ‘Unhealthy’
 * Once they have completed their pasting, they can spend the rest of the time allocated to decorating their chart


 * __Day 4__ – __Game with the use of the whiteboard__**
 * A technology based game using the 'Study Ladder Whiteboard Story Book', students choose which they feel is 'Good or Bad' and drag it to the correct heading. They are then given a score and shown where they were right and what they got incorrect.
 * Students will be informed how to play this game with the use of the whiteboard
 * Play time!!

(The_Dispatch_Staff 2010)
 * __Day 5__ – __Fruity Face making!!__**
 * With the topic of personal hygiene incorporated, all students are required to wash their hands thoroughly with soap and water and sit at a desk with a plate in front of them
 * The teacher will have an array of fruit, vegetables and cheese cut up on platters for each group to share
 * Each student now has the opportunity to use their imaginations and create a ‘funny fruity face’ using the different types of food on the platter
 * Once a student has finished, the teacher will take a photo of them with their ‘face’ creation to be displayed for parents to view what their child has learnt this week
 * Morning tea time!! Students can now eat their creation

**References **
Swarns, R. (2012). The First Lady Debuts on Sesame Street. __The New York Times__. New York, New York Times.

The_Dispatch_Staff (2010). OC Elementary Students enjoy making vegetable faces. __Ocean City Maryland News__. Ocean City Maryland.

YouTube (2010). //Elmo Visits the White House Kitchen//. Whitehouse, YouTube.