By Venkat Ramakrishnan | Project Leader
Villupuram Isha Vidhya school celebrated 'Vegetables Day'
to introduce healthy food habits among students and revising
the concepts of colours, texture, and shape.
The kindergarten section prepared a set of activities for the
Vegetables Day. Students were asked to bring a vegetable
for the day. The day started with explanation about importance
of vegetables in our diet and their classification as those
growing above or below the ground.
The School Principal explained how vegetable juices help in
intake of nutrients efficiently and also the importance of consuming
wide variety of vegetables in the diet.
Teachers taught about colour, texture, taste, shape and nutrients
of each vegetable. Students had a great time playing vegetable
hunt and role playing as vendors in vegetable shop.
Stories and songs about the vegetables were also narrated. It was
fun when students acted as vegetables like carrot, ladies finger,
pumpkin etc. Students also learnt about the growing cycle of
vegetable, method of planting seeds, resources needed for their
proper growth etc.
The day ended with consuming of tasty vegetable salad prepared
with the vegetable brought by the students.
Sarulatha, a student at the Villupuram school, shares her experience
of the Vegetables Day:
"The Vegetable day celebration helped me to know that growing kids
like us need good nutrition. On vegetables day. We learned more about
vitamins in vegetables. I felt that eating vegetables in a rainbow of colours
will give us many nutrients that help everyone to keep healthy. I like to eat
both underground as well as above the ground growing vegetables. I liked
to eat the sweet potato very much that our teacher gave us to eat. The
vegetable salad was very delicious. More ever I learned that eating raw
vegetables is very good for health."
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