Choose My Plate by Christy Williams

 

 

 

 

 

"You want us to try what????"

 

 

 

On Wednesday, October 8^th, Katy ISD Food Service department came to TWE to do the Discover My Plate program for second grade.  It is a program provided through the government to teach students about healthy eating.  Second graders learned about the five components of a healthy plate.  Those five components are vegetables, fruits, grains, protein and dairy. 

 

                                                       

Then we got to taste test four different fruits and vegetables.  First, we felt them and then smelled them.

We started with sea beans.  Sea beans?  None of the students or teachers had ever tried them!  They are a bean that grows in the sea.  They are long, pencil thin, cylindrical green stem and a bit salty!

                                                        

 

 

The students then tasted a red and a yellow grape tomato.  We also tasted baby kiwi and strawberries.

                                                             

 

 

What a fun experience to learn about what components are in a healthy plate AND get to try some new things!

 

Student quotes:

“I already feel stronger.”

“My mom is never going to believe that I ate a vegetable!”

“That’s salty!”

“You want me to try what?”

“What is that?”

“That is really good!”

 

Thank you Food Service!