I have a great big food pyramid chart.  Since the pyramid is now a plate you could make your own giant sized plate out of butcher paper.

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Materials

• songs from dole5aday
• pictures of different kinds of food
• chart:
• (tape?)

Procedure

1. listen to two songs from dole5aday
2. read
3. talk about healthy and unhealthy food
4. pass out food pictures
5. have the children (1 at a time) come up and sort/place their food in the correct category on the chart
6. repeat step #5 until every child has put their pictures on the chart
7. discuss why the sections on the chart are different sizes and what that means (ask leading questions and see if they can come up with the reasoning on their own)
8. listen to two more songs from dole5aday

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