September/October: Grocery Shopping & Cooking/Healthy Eating
Week 1 (9/6 - 9/8): About Me Books & Interviewing and Presenting a classmate **Three Day Week
Week 2 (9/11 - 9/15): Making healthy eating choices, MyPlate (5 food groups) & Introduction to breakfast,
lunch and dinner
Week 3 (9/18 - 9/20): Introduction to recipes: how to read a recipe, following instructions, finding ingredients
and determining kitchen supplies needed. **Three Day Week
Week 4 (9/25 - 9/29): Continue Recipes: Students studied various recipes to determine what ingredients are
used, what kitchen supplies are needed and if they would like that recipe. Students
searched for prices of items needed for recipes online, determined best prices and found
cost to make recipes. Students followed two different recipes and created Banana Cocoa
Yogurt Pops and Banana Muffins.
Week 5 (10/2 - 10/6): Introduction to Grocery Shopping: Students learned how to find items in grocery store
circular and practiced finding better deals and determining prices. Students reviewed the
steps of grocery shopping and proper behavior at a grocery store. Students went on a
trip to Stop & Shop. Students used grocery lists to shop for items and purchased the items
Students also participated in a scavenger hunt to find various items in the store. Students
reviewed proper ways to find items in the store (using aisle signs and looking at departments
and shelves.
Week 6 (10/9 - 10/13): Cooking/Healthy Eating: Students learned about the different types of kitchen measuring
tools. Students reviewed the five food groups.
Individual Goals: Students worked on various individual goals. **Four Day Week (PSAT)
Week 7 (10/16 - 10/20): Students are working on reading grocery store circulars, creating grocery lists and
finding the best deals. Students will be following directions to make sandwiches and
following recipes to make cookies.
Week 8 (10/23 - 10/27): **Three day week (block schedule because of conferences)
Week 9 (10/30 - 11/3):
Week 10 (11/6 - 11/10): **No School
Week 11 (11/13 - 11/17):
Week 12 (11/20 - 11/22): **Three day week
Week 13 (11/27 - 12/1):
Week 14 (12/4 - 12/8):
Week 15 (12/11 - 12/15):