Comer/Eat
WAYS WE CAN USE THE WORD
DIRECT: e.g., Ve a comer antes que tu comida se enfríe. (Go eat before your food gets cold.)
SHARE INFORMATION e.g., El bebé come fresas. (The baby eats strawberries.)
DESCRIBE: e.g., Ellos comen plátanos. (They eat plantains.)
COMPLIMENT: e.g., Yo como en casa de mi abuelita los domingos. (I eat at my grandma’s house each Sunday.)
CONJUGATIONS PRESENT AND PAST (PRETÉRITO INDEFINIDO)
|
Subject |
Present |
Past |
|
I |
como |
comí |
|
You |
comes |
comiste |
|
He/She/You (Formal) |
come |
comió |
|
We |
comemos |
comimos |
|
They/You All |
comen |
comieron |
For specific questions or more ideas regarding this core word activity sheet, please contact Sofia Ortiz-Blandon @ fortiz1@mail.sfsu.edu. Thank you!
Snack/mealtimes: During snack and mealtime, the student can indicate what they want to eat. E.g., quiero comer tacos de pollo (I want to eat chicken tacos). Adults can model what is available for snack. E.g., Puedes comer manzanas o naranjas para merendar (You can eat apples or oranges for snack).
Circle: During circle time teacher can ask students what they ate for breakfast e.g., ¿Qué comieron todos en el desayuno? (What did everyone eat for breakfast?)
Toys and games: In the dramatic play area children can play with toy foods and pretend to cook a meal e.g., mis amigos y yo vamos a cocinar y comer una ensalada. (My friends and I will cook and eat a salad).
Here are some suggested books on Youtube that can assist in teaching this core word:
- La Oruga Muy Hambrienta by Eric Carle. A very hungry caterpillar by Eric Carle. Read-aloud books.
- This book is read in both English and Spanish and features the core vocabulary word comer in most pages.
- Scholastic's How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? (Español)
- This book is read aloud in Spanish and includes the core word comer in most pages. This read aloud does not include Spanish text.
- Huevos Verdes con Jamón en Español - Green Eggs and Ham in Spanish.
- This book is read by a bilingual student in Spanish and written in Spanish. It includes the core vocabulary word comer in several pages.
Students can discuss with friends and classmates what are most and least favorite foods. E.g., Me gusta comer zanahorias pero no me gusta comer espinaca (I like to eat carrots but I don’t like to eat spinach).
Adult can use a sort activity to teach what can be eaten and what cannot. Aprendo lo que se come y lo que no (I learn what can be eaten and what cannot).
Adults can support students in baking cookies. Adult can mix the cookie dough in advance, and have a stool available for student to reach the counters. Adult can ask child what kind of cookies they would like to eat e.g., ¿Qué tipo de galletas quieres comer? (What kind of cookies would you like to eat?) Child can crack eggs into a small dark bowl, pour already measured ingredients into the mixing bowl, roll cookie dough into balls and flatten the balls with their fingers, roll balls of cookie dough in sugar, transfer cookie balls to a cookie sheet, help adult press the oven’s “bake” button.
An adult can have a rice box or other sensory bin and have small figures of different foods hidden in the box. Students and adults can take turns finding the different foods. After they have found the foods, they can say the sentence e.g., Yo como___ (manzana, uvas, bananas, etc.)“I eat ____ (apple, grapes, bananas, etc.)”
- A comer - Canción Infantil - La hora de Comer - Frutas para niños
- Lunchtime in a nursery rhyme, ideal for children to eat and have fun. Children will eat fruits, vegetables, chicken, pasta, rice, among other nutritious foods.
- Canción Infantil Para La Hora de Comer De Niños y Bebés - Nene León
- With this simple song we can help children eat well by associating the activity of the meal time to a cheerful, playful, relaxed, etc., serving as support to parents until it is possible to dissociate the meal time from the song.
- Vamos a comer | Canciones infantiles | El Mundo de Pequesi
- In El Mundo de Pequesi we love fruit and vegetables, we know that you have to try everything to be healthy and the best thing is that there is a lot of variety.
- ¿A Ti Qué Te Gusta Comer? | Canción de la comida | HiDino canciones para niños
- HiDino makes songs with funny stories for children.
Vegetable Anatomy: Students and adults can explore the anatomy of vegetables. Go to the garden and teach the students how the vegetables we eat grow and what part of the vegetable we can eat e.g., Podemos comer la fruta de tomate, pero no podemos comer la raíz de tomate. (We can eat the tomato fruit, but we cannot eat the tomato roots.)
Hungry Hungry Caterpillar: ¿Qué está comiendo la oruguita hambrienta? (what is the hungry caterpillar eating? This art project has the Very Hungry Caterpillar and the different foods that he eats through. As students make the different foods, it can be discussed as to what the caterpillar is eating. Instructions for this art project can be found here.
Create sentences with the verb comer.
Video to work on the construction of sentences (morphosyntax), answer questions (pragmatics) and work vocabulary (lexicon-semantics) around the verb comer and food: Como MEJORAR el LENGUAJE para NIÑOS de 3, 4 y 5 años / Construcción de oraciones con el verbo COMER.
WORD WALL: Create a WordWall and add comer to the list.
READING and the Word Wall: Sound out the letters together. Have the students find the word on the AAC system.
WRITING and the Word Wall: Set of tabs to work the correct structuring of the phrase, as well as the compression and oral and written expression, through the combination of pictograms of ARASAAC and sheets of #Soyvisual. Estructurar frases con el verbo Comer.
Choosing Words for the Classroom Word Wall with Dr. Caroline Musselwhite Video. Courtesy of Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium.