Fruit
CONCEPT: Discovering Fruit...a "YES" Food!
BRIEF SUMMARY
Read a book about fruit, exploring the inside and the outside of many different kinds of fruit, and how they grow. Discuss how fruits are "yes" foods, take a look at some real fruits, and taste them!
OBJECTIVES
After completing this activity, children will be able to:
- identify fruit as "yes" foods
- recognize differences between different types of fruit
METHODS
- Read the story Fruit, by Gallimard Jeunesse and Pascale de Bourgoing.
As you're reading the book, discuss the different fruits with the children, with questions such as:
- What color is it?
- What shape is it?
- Does it have seeds?
- Is it a "yes" food or a "no" food?
- Look at some real fruit!
Show the children the plates of real fruits. Talk about each one with questions such as:- What color is the outside?
- What color is the inside?
- What does it taste like? Is it sour? sweet?
- What does it feel like?
- How does it grow?
- Does it have seeds?
- Is it juicy?
- Have you tried it before?
- Distribute the worksheet. Help the children the complete the activity as needed. Discuss the answers.
- Sample the different kinds of fruits. Let each child sample each type of fruit. Which one is their favorite?
MATERIALS
- Book: Fruit, by Gallimard Jeunesse and Pascale de Bourgoing. Published by Cartwheel Books, 1989. ISBN: 0-590-45233-9.
Worksheet- Pencil or crayons
- Variety of real fruits, each on a separate plate. Slice some of each fruit beforehand for the children to sample at the end of the activity.