Vegetables Day

Children these days are very fussy about eating specially making them eat vegetables is the most difficult task mother's face. To introduce children to different kinds of vegetable and also make them aware of the health benefits of eating vegetables, A vegetables day was organised in our preschool.

Making children participate

The first thing we should do in making children understand any concept is to make them a part of whatever they have to learn. So the children were asked to come dressed as different vegetables of their choice and then speak two lines on that vegetable. This way the child finds involvement and participation by seeing themselves and thier fellowmates dressed as different vegetables. Also they  gains self confidence by public speaking.

We learn by observing

Young ones are keen observers, they learn more by observing than by teaching. So we arranged for a   vegetable cart on which all the available vegetables were arranged. The children  were  also made to bring any two green leafy vegetable, or root vegetables or salad vegetable to make them understand the different ways in which the vegetables are classified.

Role Play Enactment

We also organised a small role play of vegetable grocer and buyer. One child was made a green grocer and was briefed about the prices of each vegetable . Rest of the children pretended to be buyers and went to buy a specific vegetable. This way children are able to identify the vegetable and also learn about using money for buying things. By letting children use fake money we can help them practice counting, improve their mathematical concepts and also increase their money vocabulary. Each child was then asked to become grocer and learn both the concept about buying and selling. They used weighing scale too to learn about the weighing system.