The kindergarteners will spend the next 10 weeks exploring how to keep our bodies and our communities healthy and thriving. For our first class, we learned that eating the rainbow keeps our bodies strong! Red fruits and vegetables protect our heart, lungs, and gut from disease; orange and yellow fruits and vegetables are good for our immune system and our vision; green fruits and vegetables rebuild our energy; blue and purple fruits and vegetables boost our memory and support healthy skin; and brown and white fruits and vegetables build healthy bones.
In the classroom we read Cathryn Falwell’s book Rainbow Stew about a family that harvests in their grandfather’s garden and cooks a colorful feast together. We talked about how in addition to keeping our diet diverse and colorful, the more diverse and colorful our community is, the stronger it will be.
In the kitchen we made a rainbow fruit salad with red strawberries, orange Tango tangerines, yellow pineapple, green kiwi, blue blueberries, purple and black blackberries, and white bananas. We had a lot of hands-on fun and many students had multiple helpings of the beautiful salad they made as a community.
