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Healthy Minutes: Fresh From Farms and Gardens

Duration: 01:00 (Full Program)

Healthy Minutes helps you encourage positive health choices, good nutritional practices, personal safety, good decision making, and many other important skills with your kids.

Fresh From Farms and Gardens: Fresh foods come from farms or gardens!
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Farmers Markets

by Carmen Parks

A child accompanies her parents as they pack up fruits and vegetables grown on their farm and travel to sell them at an outdoor market.


Market Day

by Carol Foskett Cordsen

As the parents and children rush to pack their truck with produce for the farmer's market, they neglect to feed their cow. In their hurry, they drive off without closing the gate.

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Learn about all the tasty fruits and vegetables that could grow on a farm and end up at a Farmer’s Market during the harvest season.
http://www.kidsfarm.com/crops.htm

Help Bean pick vegetables from his garden for a healthy dinner, and help find matching vegetables.
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The Learning Triangle is used to teach children skills and concepts using PBS KIDS programs, books, and activities. Engage children in theme-related activities in any order and at any time. Use the Learning Triangle to point out the connections between what they VIEW, the book they READ, and the activity they DO. The repetition and variety of media used will reinforce the concepts and skills with children. As they explore a theme, children begin to construct their own understanding of it and learn in a deeper and more personal way. Learn more...

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Post Date: September 28, 2009