Sort the grocery bag
Bring in a bag of real (or pictured) groceries and have small groups sort them into proteins, grains, fruits and veggies. Then they glue or draw each item into the right column on paper. Touching and sorting first makes the categories stick way better than a list on the board.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
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