Week 10

Where food comes from

Tracing real things back to their source. Concrete geography, which beats a map at not-yet-three.

The work

  1. Tree, ground, or animal

    You need: A mango, a carrot, an egg, a coconut, a potato, cheese

    She sorts real food by where it came from, then cuts one open and eats it.

  2. Go to the market

    You need: Thong Sala market + a small amount of cash

    Practical life, maths, language and social confidence in one trip. Worth more than any printed sheet in this folder.

  3. Plant something

    You need: A bean, a cup, soil

    Plant it this week so it is up by week 12. She waters it and reports what changed.

Every week, not just this one

Practical life

The market trip itself — she picks, carries, hands over the money, takes the change.

Her body

Walking the market, carrying her own bag. Long walk, real purpose.

Optional — watch together

Learn Colors, Fruits and Vegetables with Ms Rachel Ms Rachel · 60:15

Optional. Have the same fruit in a bowl and hold it up when it appears.

Then go and buy some of it.

Week 10 · real objects on the mat

Where did it come from?

from a tree
from the ground
from an animal

Sort first. Name it only once sorting is easy.

Liv · Where did it come from?
Week 10 · cut out

Food labels

Cut along the dashed lines. Keep them in an envelope.

mango
carrot
egg
rice
coconut
milk
potato
fish

These are LABELS for you to read aloud, not decoding practice — most are not spellable from the sounds she has met. She matches the label to the real food.

Liv · Food labels
Week 10 · for you, not for her

What I noticed

Week 10 — Where food comes from. One line a day is plenty. Write what she did, not what she got right.

What she didRepeat / move on
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Liv · What I noticed
Week 10 · English + ไทย

For whoever is at the table

Week 10 — Where food comes from

Set out before she sits down

  • Tree, ground, or animal — A mango, a carrot, an egg, a coconut, a potato, cheese
  • Go to the market — Thong Sala market + a small amount of cash
  • Plant something — A bean, a cup, soil

Every day, away from the table

  • A real job: The market trip itself — she picks, carries, hands over the money, takes the change.
  • Her body: Walking the market, carrying her own bag. Long walk, real purpose.

How to run it

  • Real food on the mat, never pictures of food.
  • She handles the money at the market. Getting it wrong is part of it.
  • Plant the bean early in the week — it needs the time.
  • Let her guess before you tell her. A wrong guess she thought about beats a right answer she was handed.

วิธีทำ

  • วางอาหารจริงบนแผ่นรอง ไม่ใช่รูปภาพอาหาร
  • ให้เธอถือเงินเองที่ตลาด ทำผิดก็เป็นส่วนหนึ่งของการเรียนรู้
  • ปลูกถั่วตั้งแต่ต้นสัปดาห์ เพราะต้องใช้เวลา
  • ให้เธอเดาก่อนที่คุณจะบอก การเดาผิดที่ผ่านการคิดดีกว่าคำตอบที่ถูกยกให้