Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.

Centers: Listening, Book Nook, Writing, Math

Objective: To provide hands-on opportunities for children to experience/extend what they learned in Step 4.

Activity:
Centers: Listening, book nook, writing, math. Listening: Listen to books-on-tape about foods: Grandfather's Cake, The Man Who Cooked for Himself, Let's Eat, Little Red Hen; Listen to songs--The Breakfast Song, Ten Green Apples. Book Nook: Read books and magazines about various types of food and nutrition, e.g., The Berenstein Bears, Pancakes, Crackers, and Pizza, From Apple Seed to Applesauce, Stone Soup.
Writing Center: Draw pictures and write/dictate a description of favorite foods; match words to pictures of foods or artificial foods--record these on paper; use My First Dictionary to look up vocabulary words, e.g., vegetable, rice, fruit, banana, write labels or sentence strips for Polaroid pictures on bulletin board.
Math: Graph favorite breakfast foods; using egg cartons, match numeral with correct number of beans; sort artificial foods by various attributes; use pretzel sticks for addition and subtraction problems; complete math worksheets.

Assessment: Quality of involvement in centers and quality of student work.