Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
What’s in my Lunchbox? by Chris Butterworth is the perfect story to help kids learn about where food comes from and why it’s important to make healthy choices. In this read aloud + lesson video, students will practice sequencing, learn about different food groups, and explore the journey food takes from farm to table.
🎯 Learning Objectives:
Students will identify different food groups.
Students will understand where common foods come from.
Students will practice sequencing events in a text.
Students will connect story details to real-life healthy eating habits.
📚 Standards Connection:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.7: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear.
Health/Nutrition Standards (K–2): Identify food groups and understand the importance of making healthy food choices.
📝 Teacher Tips:
Pause after each page to ask: “Where do you think this food comes from?”
After the story, have students draw their own lunchbox with healthy foods inside.
Use the printable companion worksheet (linked below) for a sequencing activity.
👉 Download the free Lunchbox Sequencing Worksheet here:
drive.google.com/file/d/12oTqx-A-_3HrUKEIQxWcSG84XilO5-95/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/1IgsRSSU16OrIKQ8MCrGGFI39XuHx2PVN/view?usp=sharing
🧑🏫 For Teachers:
This video is designed for classroom, homeschool, and small group use. It combines a read aloud with an interactive nutrition lesson to support literacy and health education.
My Plate.gov resources:
drive.google.com/file/d/13HAIe8upzyt5x8gCtx8vBcfPvDqxKSvy/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/1EX0sTQM8M-cDy_UYo9hfIA-pDZJs6pxQ/view?usp=sharing
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What’s in my Lunchbox? by Chris Butterworth is the perfect story to help kids learn about where food comes from and why it’s important to make healthy choices. In this read aloud + lesson video, students will practice sequencing, learn about different food groups, and explore the journey food takes from farm to table.
🎯 Learning Objectives:
Students will identify different food groups.
Students will understand where common foods come from.
Students will practice sequencing events in a text.
Students will connect story details to real-life healthy eating habits.
📚 Standards Connection:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.2: Recount stories, including fables and folktales, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.7: With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear.
Health/Nutrition Standards (K–2): Identify food groups and understand the importance of making healthy food choices.
📝 Teacher Tips:
Pause after each page to ask: “Where do you think this food comes from?”
After the story, have students draw their own lunchbox with healthy foods inside.
Use the printable companion worksheet (linked below) for a sequencing activity.
👉 Download the free Lunchbox Sequencing Worksheet here:
drive.google.com/file/d/12oTqx-A-_3HrUKEIQxWcSG84XilO5-95/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/1IgsRSSU16OrIKQ8MCrGGFI39XuHx2PVN/view?usp=sharing
🧑🏫 For Teachers:
This video is designed for classroom, homeschool, and small group use. It combines a read aloud with an interactive nutrition lesson to support literacy and health education.
My Plate.gov resources:
drive.google.com/file/d/13HAIe8upzyt5x8gCtx8vBcfPvDqxKSvy/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/1EX0sTQM8M-cDy_UYo9hfIA-pDZJs6pxQ/view?usp=sharing
Thanks for watching!
Follow me on Instagram!
instagram.com/tlhennig
Want to send me something? Please email me first at
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