Stonecrest Kindergarten English Connection: Where does your fruit come from?!

FRUIT INQUIRY!!

This is how our fruit wall started......

This is how our fruit wall grew........

So you might be wondering why all of a sudden your child has an interest in where their fruit is coming from, or why they are asking you to leave the stickers on their fruit!

Well it started off with a picture of an apple and banana in the classroom, explaining to the children that on their fruit there is sometimes a sticker and on that sticker we can see where the fruit is coming from! This has been a BIG hit in our classroom!

It has turned out to be quite a big interest in our classroom and is now bringing up many fantastic questions that we are going to be exploring!

"How does the fruit get to Canada?"

"What country do we live in?"

"How does the fruit grow?"

Lily is pointing to Guatemala where her banana came from!

We set up a map during nutrition break and when a child brings a sticker we look to see where the fruit has traveled from!

Ayla and Cali super excited to add to our sticker collection!

The Blue Group decided to graph our most popular fruit to see where the banana's were coming from. The majority of our banana's have traveled from Guatemala. Most of the children can now point to where Guatemala is on the world map!

We brainstormed and discussed how the fruit travels to Canada by boat, plane, etc. We also talked about how different fruit grows in different places.

The Green Group graphed and discussed our second most popular fruit....APPLES! Most of our apples traveled from the United States! Most of the children can now point to where the USA is on the world map!