BUSINESS OF THE DAY: What’s In Your Peanut Butter?
TODAY'S AGENDA
Go to the kitchen pantry to retrieve a jar of peanut butter. (For those with a nut allergy, any canned or jarred good will suffice). Read the ingredients aloud to your child (At least read the ones you can pronounce. Explaining the ingredients you can’t pronounce is an entirely different lesson for another day and time.)
THE PRESENTATION SLIDE WITH TODAY'S OBJECTIVES: Why You're Doing This
- Expose your child to the idea that many ingredients come together to produce a good that we buy in a store.
- Each ingredient comes from some other place; Encourage your child to start brainstorming as to where ingredients come from, how they get to a plant or factory, and then how they (or who!) puts/assemblies them together.
THE FAMILY CONFERENCE CALL: Questions to Talk About Together
- Where do you think each of these ingredients comes from? (STOCK TIP: If we’re talking peanut butter and peanuts, lots of peanuts are grown on farms in the state of Georgia, Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, and several other states. For more information: h
- How do they get all these ingredients together in one jar or can?
- What’s your favorite thing to enjoy with peanut butter? How do you think companies/businesses make that product? The same way as peanut butter? A different way? Why?
STOCK TIP
Parents, if the peanut butter has lots of weird ingredient names you can’t read or that won’t make sense, just stick to the basic ingredients. (And consider buying a different peanut butter next time.)