The Hoot Owls recently welcomed guest expert Thea Shukaliak-Neufeld to their classroom as part of their Meals project. Thea is an occupational therapist who works with children who find regular things more challenging. One thing she does is to help children who have trouble eating food. During her visit, she taught the Hoot Owls to be food scientists! She shared that everyone should always try a mouse bite of any food to figure out if the food is sweet, sour, salty or bitter. She also shared that sometimes it takes one bite to like something, sometimes ten, sometimes over 100, so keep trying!
The Hoot Owls had many questions for Thea about food and meals. To answer a question about junk food, she shared that no food is bad; some foods are only made out of one ingredient and we need a variety of food to keep our bodies healthy. She taught the Hoot Owls about rainbow foods, and that it’s important for everyone to eat lots of different colored foods, as they have different vitamins and minerals to help our bodies grow strong and healthy.
The Hoot owls then worked together to make a food rainbow First they painted the rainbow, and then added foods that come in each of the colors. Check out their rainbow below!
A big thank you to Thea Shukaliak-Neufeld for sharing her knowledge about food and teaching the Hoot Owls to be food scientists!
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