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Which plant-based milk is best?

There is such a wide range of plant-based milks available, from soy and almond to rice and oat. But which ones are the best choices?
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Are some sugars better than others?

There are lots of different foods and drinks that contain sugar. Often these sugars are added during food processing, and these are the ones that should be limited.
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Kōrero me te kai

Kai time is a special opportunity for tamariki to create respectful relationships with Kaiako, and have their needs met and socialise.
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Lesson 8 - Food processing

A large amount of the kai we eat is processed. Show ākonga how kai from everyday ingredients are changed by processing with the morphing kai activity.
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How to support food explorers

This resource will support you to reframe the way you talk about food with the tamariki in your whānau.
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Movement and mat times

Try these simple mat time activities at your early learning service.
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Kitchen Licence

Early learning services can provide unique opportunities to build life skills of tamariki, especially in the kitchen.
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Lesson 7 - How kai makes me feel

What and how much we eat affects the way our bodies function and feel. Encourage your ākonga to identify levels of fullness and then create emojis in relation to how different kai make them feel.
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Lesson 6 - Te reo Māori food vocabulary

Gather your dictionary detectives to learn the te reo Māori words for different kai. Extend the learning by asking ākonga to find the translations to the kai in a language spoken at home or of interest.
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Lesson 5 - Kai and your body

We can connect different types of kai with helping parts of our body function properly. Learn about the different kai groups with a card sorting activity and then help Sam by pairing the cards to the body parts they support.
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Lesson 4 - Seasonal kai

Kai needs the right weather conditions to grow. Ākonga can familiarise themselves with foods available from chilly takurua to sunny raumati in this word search. Then test the class learning with the kai sorting by seasonal availability.
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Lesson 3 - Let’s talk about kai

One of the ways we can talk about kai is to describe how it looks, tastes, smells and feels using our senses. The intent of this lesson is to build ākonga vocabulary for words they can use to describe their food experience through being sensory scientists.
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