Fruit or Vegetable?

Happy Monday! Welcome back to Flowers Class! We’re excited for a new week!

MORNING ACTIVITIES

We continued our lunchbox craft from last week, as well as the second part of our favorite foods craft. We’ll start a new craft tomorrow! We also played with puzzles and Kinex!

CIRCLE TIME

We came back to one of the topics from last week that we hadn’t quite finished yet. Who remembers?

Hi: Sugar!

That’s right! Let’s see if we can wrap our heads around sugar in food that we consider healthy. We learned last week that even things like carrots, apples, and bananas all have sugar in them, and that they can still be healthy. They naturally have sugar in them along with many other vitamins and nutrients.

Today, we looked a little deeper into processed foods like candy. We know that candy doesn’t grow on trees or in the ground, and so someone must make it. During that process, extra sugar is added. Sometimes a lot!


Re: I think that from tree, plants is healthy. But if not, not healthy. If you make it, it’s not healthy.

That’s a great way to think about it! If it comes naturally from our earth, then it’s probably healthier than something that was created by people.

Ei: Vegetables come from the ground!

What about food that don’t come from the ground?

Mi: I think ice cream is made of sugar too!
Ke: One time my mommy make ice cream with sugar.
Be: I think it’s not healthy if you add sugar.

We also looked at foods created by people that include other healthy foods as ingredients as well as sugar. For example, a blueberry muffin. We know that blueberries are healthy, but what about the muffin part?

Re: Muffins are not healthy.

We learned that one of the things that makes the muffin unhealthy is the ADDED SUGAR. When bakers make blueberry muffins, they often include a generous amount of sugar.

Th: If you put more sugar, it’s quite yummy, but not healthy.
Au: If they keep putting more, it’s unhealthy.

If we buy muffins from the bakery or a store, it’s difficult to know exactly how much sugar is in them. But if we make them ourselves, we can control it.

Mi: I think that if we put blueberries inside, they are sweet, so we can put sugar just a little bit.
Be: Or no sugar!

We can use naturally sweet ingredients to cut down on sugar and create a healthier snack!

FRUIT OR VEGETABLE

The fruit book told us about apples first!

Ke: One time I eat Niigata apple and it’s yummy!
Cl: I think you can eat this too!
Re: We can eat the skin!
Hi: One time the apple, no cutting, I eat.
Be: My mommy cuts here.

Most of the fruits we saw had seeds on the inside, except for the strawberry.

Sh: The seeds are all around the red!

Now that we understand what fruit it, we tried grouping food by either fruit or vegetable, and then read a book about both to see if we were right. Is it a fruit or vegetable?

Vegetables
Co: Broccoli
Be: Cabbage
Au: Asparagus
Ty: Onions
Mi: Corn

Fruit
Ar: Grapes
Ke: Kiwi
Gr: Pineapple
Ma: Watermelon
Ve: Strawberry
Sh: Orange
An: Banana

The final food was a tomato. Re wasn’t sure if it was a fruit or a vegetable…

Re: I don’t know.
Hi: It can be both!

While we read the vegetable book, we saw a tomato. The book told us that many people call tomato a vegetable, but it is actually a fruit, along with zucchini, eggplant, and others. We think because they have seeds, that means they are fruits!

SHOW AND TELL

Mi asked to share about what she did over the weekend.

Mi: Yesterday I go to Kidzania and I got a big picture of me!
Gr: Why you get those?
Mi: Because I want to bring it to Ohana.

Ke: Why you get it?
Mi: If you go there, there can be some cards, so sometimes they give this card.

Re: How you make this?
Mi: First I draw, then they put in a machine.

Mi also showed us a few videos!

Mi: I was a nurse for the baby. Caring and helping them to eat and in the bath…I am making a sausage and turning it around…now I am making cookies!
Ty: Did it have sugar?
Mi: No.

Sh: I know Yamato!
Mi: I was doing a delivery! I did delivery in English!

Next to share, Ei!

Ei: I got this turtle when I was three years old.

Mi: Where did you buy it from?
Ei: From the stuffed shop. His name is Slo.

Th: Why is it super soft!?
Ei: Because I can’t have a real one, so my mom got me this one.

Thank you for sharing!

Have a wonderful night! See you tomorrow!

Love,
Flowers XOXO