Feeding Your Growing Child

Key message

Keep your children healthy with food that is appropriate for their ages

Objectives

As a result of this lesson, participants will be able to:

• Recognize child’s eating cues at different ages

• Identify appropriate foods for different ages

• Recognize the dangers of giving children juice in their bottle or sippy cup

• Strategize ways to help children be healthy eaters

Supplies and prep

• Share the vocabulary list and writing exercise for this lesson with your ELL teaching partner one week before the class date. 

• Select activities from the menu of activities in this lesson. Which ones suit your learners? How many do you have time for?

• Shop for, print and prepare materials you will need. See the supplies list in this lesson. 

• Technology: Check that wifi will allow you to show slides, videos and play music. If not, download slides and videos to a device that can run them in the room you will be using for class. 

Core activities in this lesson

• Focused breathing

• Do you ... Feeding children

• Baby food taste test

• Demonstration: Weaning from the bottle

• Is my child eating enough? Serving sizes

• Scenarios: What would you do if ...

• Healthy snacks (food cards or models)

• Move to the music

• Cooking and tasting

Optional for all learners

• Teach your child to trust their hunger cues (cards)

• Try a prune

• Pair and share: Eating new foods

• Say and copy vocabulary words

Optional activities for advanced ELLS

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• Writing practice