Teacher’s Guide Hav i ng F oo d F y h un w i th Heal t Recommended for Grades Pre-Kto 2 Find the Different Peanuts Dear Educator, What’s your favorite food that starts with “p”? Help your students pick tasty, nutritious foods and practice important skills with these reproducible classroom activities. Kids will learn that peanuts, fruits, and vegetables are good for you— and yummy, too! In this activity, students circle the peanut or group of peanuts that differs from the others in each row. Ask students to describe the differences. Also, students count and circle the correct number of sandwiches. Extend the Lesson: Encourage students to draw three different versions of an apple. Then, ask them to identify the details that make each apple different. Nuts about Bananas! Student Activity Title Recommended Skills Grades National Education Standards Find the Different Peanuts Pre-K—K visual discrimination Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process Nuts about Bananas! Pre-K—K critical thinking, visual discrimination Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process Pick Tasty Foods That Start with “P” Pre-K—K letter-sound identification Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes How Do Peanuts Grow? 1—2 labeling, visual discrimination Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process Buddy McNutty’s Yummy Lunch 1—2 comprehension, Uses listening and analytical speaking strategies thinking for different purposes The United States of Peanuts 1—2 map reading Which Food Is It? 1—2 analytical thinking, matching Understands the characteristics and uses of maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process Invite students to navigate through a maze that leads to a popular and nutritious peanut butter treat. Then, ask them what they like to eat with peanut butter. Create a bar graph to represent the results. Pick Tasty Foods That Start with “P” Write the letter “p” on the board. Ask students to identify the letter and the sound it makes. Then, encourage students to name some things that begin with the letter “p” before completing the letter-sound activity. Answers: pineapple, peanut butter, pepper, pear, pickle, peanut Extend the Lesson: Ask students to state the first letter of each of the other foods on the page, and then come up with other foods or words that begin with each letter. © 2008 National Peanut Board. Created by Weekly Reader Custom Publishing. Teacher’s Guide Hav i ng F oo d F y h un w i th Heal t Buddy McNutty’s Yummy Lunch How Do Peanuts Grow? Invite students to read silently as you read aloud the description of the peanut plant. Then, ask students to label the picture. Answer: leaf stem root Extend the Lesson: Ask students to tell you which parts of the peanut plant can be seen above the ground (flower, leaf, stem, peg) and which parts grow underground (peg, roots, fruits/peanuts). Then, to the tune of “Three Blind Mice,” sing the following song with students to help them remember the parts of the peanut plant. The Peanut Plant Song Flower, leaf, stem, flower, leaf, stem, they’re all above the ground, they’re all above the ground. The peg on the plant is above the ground, but also grows down below the ground. The peg starts above and grows down, the peg starts above and grows down. Under the ground, under the ground, you’ll find the tasty fruits, you’ll find the tasty fruits. The nice, strong roots are the base of the plant, they bring strength to the top of the plant. The roots are underground, the roots are underground. Recommended for Grades Pre-Kto 2 flower peg Invite students to read the passage silently as you read aloud. Then, ask them to circle the answer to each question. Next, encourage students to select a food for Buddy’s dad to pack in Buddy’s lunch bag. Answers: 1. Buddy’s dad 2. peanut butter and jelly 3. purple 4. bread The United States of Peanuts fruit Read your students the names of the four types of peanuts that grow in the U.S. Then, after students study the map, read aloud the questions and ask students to write the answers. Answers: 1. fifteen 2. North and South Carolina 3. South 4. warm Which Food Is It? In this activity, students look at a picture to find answers to questions about some different foods. Answers: 1. banana 2. corn 3. carrot 4. peanut 5. orange 6. lemon Extend the Lesson: Tell students to circle their favorite food in the picture and come up with a word to describe how it tastes. © 2008 National Peanut Board. Created by Weekly Reader Custom Publishing. oodd o F HavHianvgi ng Fu y F h y t l h Fun nw iwtihthHHeeaal t Student Student Activities Activity Name:______________________________________________________________________ Find the Different Peanuts Look at the peanuts. Circle the peanut or bunch of peanuts in each row that is different. Try This! Count the peanut butter sandwiches. How many are there? Circle the number. 1 2 3 4 5 © 2008 National Peanut Board. Created by Weekly Reader Custom Publishing. Hav i ng o F od y h t l Fun w i th Hea Student Activity Name:______________________________________________________________________ Nuts about Bananas! Help Billy McSilly find his way through the maze to the peanut butter and bananas. Peanut butter and bananas make a nutritious snack. And, they taste great together! © 2008 National Peanut Board. Created by Weekly Reader Custom Publishing. Hav i ng o F od y h t l Fun w i th Hea Student Activity Name:______________________________________________________________________ Pick Tasty Foods That Start with “P” Circle the foods that begin with the letter “p.” © 2008 National Peanut Board. Created by Weekly Reader Custom Publishing. Hav i ng Student Activity o F od y h t l Fun w i th Hea Name:______________________________________________________________________ How Do Peanuts Grow? To find out where peanuts come from, don’t look in rivers or seas. Don’t poke around under big rocks, or climb up very tall trees. Peanuts come from plants! Roots grow under the ground to help the peanut plant stand strong. A stem above the ground holds up leaves and small yellow flowers. The peanut plant also has special stems, called “pegs.” The pegs curl toward the ground and push through the soil. A peanut grows underground at the tip of each peg. Peanuts are called the “fruits” of the plant. Did Yo u Know? A peanut is not really a nut! It’s a “legume.” Beans and peas are legumes, too! Word Bank Look at the picture. Then, write the name of each part of the peanut plant from the word bank on the correct line. flower leaf stem peg fruit root © 2008 National Peanut Board. Created by Weekly Reader Custom Publishing. Hav i ng o F od y h t l Fun w i th Hea Student Activity Name:______________________________________________________________________ Buddy McNutty’s Yummy Lunch Buddy’s dad spread peanut butter on a slice of bread. Then, he spread jelly on another slice of bread. He stuck the slices of bread together. Next, he cut the sandwich in half. He packed the sandwich in a yellow lunch bag. Then, he packed two pickles and a purple plum. Finally, he packed a carton of cold milk. He said, “I hope you like your yummy lunch, Buddy!” 1. Who packed Buddy’s lunch? Buddy’s dad Buddy’s sister Buddy’s cat 2. What kind of sandwich was packed? tuna peanut butter and jelly pickle and peach purple yellow 3. What color was the plum? green 4. Which word in the story rhymes with “spread”? sandwich yummy bread You Decide! Pick a food to pack in Buddy’s lunch bag. Circle the food you pick. Then, write the name of the food on the lines. _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ © 2008 National Peanut Board. Created by Weekly Reader Custom Publishing. Hav i ng Student Activity o F od y h t l Fun w i th Hea Name:______________________________________________________________________ The United States of Peanuts Did you know that four kinds of peanuts grow in the United States? There are Runner, Virginia, Spanish, and Valencia peanuts. Washington New Hampshire North Dakota Montana Vermont Maine Minnesota Oregon Idaho South Dakota Wyoming Nevada New York Michigan Nebraska Iowa Pennsylvania Illinois Utah Massachusetts Wisconsin Indiana Ohio Colorado Kansas California West Virginia Missouri Kentucky Tennessee Arizona New Mexico Oklahoma Texas New Jersey Delaware Maryland Washington, D.C. Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Arkansas Mississippi Alabama Kitty litter can be made from peanut shells! Georgia Louisiana Alaska Rhode Island Connecticut Florida Hawaii Look at the map to see which states grow most of the peanuts in the U.S. Then, answer the questions. 1. How many states grow peanuts? ____________________________________________________ 2. Two states that grow peanuts have the same second name, but a different first name. What are those states? _____________________________ _____________________________ 3. Do most of the peanuts grow in the South or the North? ______________________________ 4. The South is warmer than the North. Do peanuts grow better in warm or cold weather? ___________________________________ *Alaska and Hawaii are not shown in place and are not drawn to scale. © 2008 National Peanut Board. Created by Weekly Reader Custom Publishing. Hav i ng o F od y h t l Fun w i th Hea Student Activity Name:______________________________________________________________________ Which Food Is It? Look at the yummy food. Next, read each question. Then, write the name of the food on the line. lemon Did you know that peanut skins can be used to make paper? carrot corn peanut orange banana 1. What yellow fruit rhymes with “Montana”? 2. Which vegetable has a cob? 3. What orange vegetable grows underground? 4. Which food is a legume and not a nut? 5. What juicy fruit is also the name of a color? 6. Which sour fruit makes a yummy yellow drink? © 2008 National Peanut Board. Created by Weekly Reader Custom Publishing.