Inside Out: An Up-Close Look At Foods We Eat
Waltrina Kirkland-Mullins
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The implementation of this unit proved rewarding for our young learners. Their enthusiasm and sophisticated responses encouraged me to feel confident that our young people have good heads on their shoulders, will be knowledgeable consumers, and will make sound decisions in the future.
My students requested that I include their literary work, DO YOU KNOW, in this curriculum unit. I agreed. (Know that at the completion our Food Classification Activity outlined in Section 1, we categorized over 70 different food products. My first graders came up with some interesting wording for our rhymed work. I had to assert that there was no way we were going to include every food we had listed; this book would have gone on forever. Nevertheless, it was a fun-filled experience.) You may find DO YOU KNOW useful to share with your young learners.
DO YOU KNOW?
by the Students of Room 10, Mrs. Mullins’ Class
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We learned a lot in this school year
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About where foods come from
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Come join us in our guessing game
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We’re sure you’ll have great fun!
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Beef burgers, hot dogs, sausage
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Roast beefwe want some now
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Do you know where these meats come from?
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We do! They’re from a cow.
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Turkey baked and roasted
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Chicken fried or stewed
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Cornish hens and roasted duck
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We eat meat from birds, do you?
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Bacon, ham, spare ribs, and pork chops
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Make our taste buds do a jig
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Cold cuts, pork rind snacks and Jello
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Tasty foods--gifts from a pig.
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Tuna, salmon, porgies, whitings
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Sardines, smelts, and flounder too
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We’ll eat snapper, we’ll eat trout
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All are fish, we know you knew!
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Purple grapes and orange pumpkins
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Cukes and melons ripe and fine
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Zucchini squash ready for picking
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Each of these plucked from a vine.
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Orange yams and white potatoes
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Crunchy radishes we’ve found
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Beets and turnips, parsnips, carrots…
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Tubers and roots beneath the ground.
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Oranges, apples, pears and peaches,
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Grapefruits, cherries all for me
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Pecans, walnuts, acorns, chestnuts
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Fruits and nuts all found on trees.
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Milk and ice-cream, cheese and yogurt
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Chocolate milk, delicious wow!
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Pudding, sour cream, and butter
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Gifts from our dear friend, the cow.
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Over easy, sunny-sided
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Boiled or scrambled on toasted bread
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Whipped in milk blended with sugar
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Tasty treats from a hen’s egg.
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Cakes and bread, pretzels and popcorn
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Crunchy rice cakes--salted or plain
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Favorite cereals and granola bars
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All food products made from grains.
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We have learned where these foods come from
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And we know there’re millions more
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But one thing we know for certain
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They don’t grow in the grocery store!