Week of 3/5

Hello Sky Room Families!

We hope you enjoyed your snow day! This week in the Sky Room we have been learning all about Fruits and Vegetables. We learned the difference between a fruit and a vegetable, and had the chance to even taste a few different types of each! The students seem to really love activities that revolve around eating. :) 
 
Classroom Activities:

• We conducted a fruit and vegetable taste test! The students each tasted a banana, strawberry, carrot, and yellow pepper. After they tried each food, they were asked to find and identify their name (which was printed on name tags). They were then shown a large graph that contained columns which had a picture of a banana, strawberry, carrot, and a yellow pepper at the bottom. After they voted on which food they liked best, we tallied up the votes to see which fruit/vegetable had the most likes, and which had the least amount of likes. This graph is hanging outside of our classroom, so be sure to check it out to see our results!
  
  
• The students went on a “Fruit and Vegetable Hunt” all throughout the Sky Room. The teachers hid different fruits and vegetables we found in our play kitchen, and the students raced around the room to find as many hidden items as they could! After we collected all of the fruits and vegetables, we gathered on the rug to count out how many we had found in total. We also deciphered which foods were fruits and which were vegetables. At the end of our discussion, we counted to see which we had more of – fruits or vegetables.

• Each student chose to assemble an eggplant, yellow pepper, tomato, radish, and carrot using glue, cellophane, and glitter. As the students made each piece of food, we discussed whether it was a fruit or vegetable, if it had seeds, and where/how it grew on our Earth!

Songs We Sang:

• “The Fruit Rhyme"
• “Vegetable Song!”

 
Books We Read:

• Duck Soup, by Jackie Urbanovic
• Growing Vegetable Soup, by Lois Ehlert
• To Market, To Market, by Anne Miranda

  
Reminders:

• MCS will be closed for Spring Break the weeks of March 18 and March 25 and will reopen on Monday, April 1st. 

​Have a great weekend everyone!
Laura, Desiree, and Ashley