Super Snack Lady is more than Nutrition!

Did you know that Super Snack Lady works with teachers to do cross-curricular work during her visits?  What exactly does that mean you ask?  It means that Super Snack Lady teaches students about more than just the fruits and vegetables.  Below are some ways that Super Snack Lady incorporates other subject matter into her lessons:

• We count how many pieces of fruit or veggie we are given.
• We discuss the color of the produce.
• We use descriptive words to desribe our produce. Oval, rough, smooth, juicy, delicious, yummy in our tummies, and crunchy are a few examples.
• We tie in geography and talk about where our produce comes from.  When often point out on a map what states the produce grows in and talk about how far it traveled to get to us.
• We attempt to do a short burst of physical activity that gets the students' bodies moving and gives their minds a quick break.
• We work on visualizing by having students close their eyes while Super Snack Lady describes the fruit or vegetable.  Once students can picture the produce in their mind they raise their hand to have a guess at what produce Super Snack Lady brought.
• An art teacher at one of Super Snack Lady's schools did an activity with her 2nd graders which included using My Plate to create a balanced meal (check out those photos below).
• One teacher recently did a compare and contrast chart with her students that compared lemons and oranges.

As you can see Super Snack Lady works hard to make her visits worth while for the teachers and students alike.  Not to mention that a lot of activities are "more fun" for the kids if it involves a yummy snack at the end of it!

A student's artwork from Hoover elementary.
Can you tell what's on their plate?

Another student's artwork from Hoover.
Corn, watermelon, and green beans. YUM!

One last piece of artwork from Hoover.
Chicken leg, pear, apple, and grapes.  Sounds great to
Super Snack Lady!