Hello, this is Itabashi Ekimae Garden 🍁
This time, we will bring you the nutritional education "mushroom picking" event.
On the morning of the day we chopped mushrooms, my 2-year-old went to the supermarket to buy mushrooms. 👀✨ Before going to the supermarket, he checked the photos of the types and names of the mushrooms he wanted to buy.
When we got to the supermarket, we immediately started looking for mushrooms 🍄🟫 "Shimeji and Maitake mushrooms..." "What else was there?" we walked around the supermarket and found some mushrooms 💡 "This is it, this is it!" we all cooperated to choose, paid the bill and went back to the nursery 😊 It was wonderful to see the children telling us with shining eyes, "I bought mushrooms" 💓
After returning to the garden, we were looking forward to picking mushrooms 🌟
We enjoyed using all five senses by looking closely at three types of mushrooms - Enoki, Maitake, and Shimeji - and smelling them, as well as picking them apart.
As they were picking the mushrooms, we heard various voices of discovery, such as "What kind of mushroom is this?", "This mushroom is long and thin", and "It smells nice!" 🗣️💬
When they finished tearing them up, they carried them to the cafeteria with their friends, saying, "So these belong to Teacher X!" When they brought them back, the children looked happy and said, "We did it!"
Even after their nap, they enjoyed eating their snacks while thinking back on what they had done that day, saying things like, "I picked this today," and "There were some shimeji mushrooms."
Through picking mushrooms, the children became familiar with seasonal ingredients, and by going to buy them and picking them themselves, they made various discoveries and developed an interest in ingredients⭐️In addition, the snacks they made together seemed to taste even better than usual, so it was a wonderful experience🤝🏻
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