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PDF (310 KB) Add One More Vegetable challenge – Activity sheet

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There are so many ways to Add One More Vegetable into your day and every little bit is a great step to better health.
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Add One More Vegetable - Design a poke bowl (activity)

Design your own poke bowl using ingredients that suit the seasons, your preferences, budget and availability.
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How processing changes food

Large amounts of the kai we eat is processed. Processing makes kai available to us even after the harvest season has passed. It can also make kai taste better and safer to eat.
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Activity: Where does our food come from?

We often purchase kai without knowing where it has come from. This learning activity is designed to get tamariki to start thinking about sources of the foods they eat.
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Lesson 8 - Food processing

A large amount of the kai we eat is processed. Show ākonga how kai from everyday ingredients are changed by processing with the morphing kai activity.
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Movement and mat times

Try these simple mat time activities at your early learning service.
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Kitchen Licence

Early learning services can provide unique opportunities to build life skills of tamariki, especially in the kitchen.
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Lesson 7 - How kai makes me feel

What and how much we eat affects the way our bodies function and feel. Encourage your ākonga to identify levels of fullness and then create emojis in relation to how different kai make them feel.
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Lesson 6 - Te reo Māori food vocabulary

Gather your dictionary detectives to learn the te reo Māori words for different kai. Extend the learning by asking ākonga to find the translations to the kai in a language spoken at home or of interest.
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Lesson 5 - Kai and your body

We can connect different types of kai with helping parts of our body function properly. Learn about the different kai groups with a card sorting activity and then help Sam by pairing the cards to the body parts they support.
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Lesson 4 - Seasonal kai

Kai needs the right weather conditions to grow. Ākonga can familiarise themselves with foods available from chilly takurua to sunny raumati in this word search. Then test the class learning with the kai sorting by seasonal availability.
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Lesson 3 - Let’s talk about kai

One of the ways we can talk about kai is to describe how it looks, tastes, smells and feels using our senses. The intent of this lesson is to build ākonga vocabulary for words they can use to describe their food experience through being sensory scientists.
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