Vege taste test!

Welcome back to another exciting Monday at Petals. We started our morning by adding finishing touches to our Earth Day Banner. We also created different shapes with kinetic sand.
A: Would you play with me? ( asking Evita )
E: Look! So many stars!
For our circle time, T led us in our Good Morning Song, accompanied by A on the guitar. We also sang the Ohana song, spreading friendship and warmth to start our week.
R: Ohana song!
Y: Again!
In The following months, we are going to dive into the world of food. Last week, we learned about our five senses, and this week , it’s about vegetables! Evita led a lively discussion, asking us what we had for breakfast and dinner. She also asked the class what we put in salads. Then, she showed us different vegetables and encouraged the class to differentiate them using our senses. We learned about the importance of eating vegetables for our health and revisited what we learned about farmers. Petals Class remembered that farmers grow vegetables, just like what we have in our classroom!
Evita: What did you eat for breakfast?
A: Chocolate cereal
M: Egg
J: Bread and cheese
Evita: How about for dinner?
J: pasta
M: cucumber
T: police
R: Salad
Y: Mommy ate some noodles
J: I ate salad too!
Evita; What do you put in salads?
M: Tomato, lettuce and cucumber
J: Tomato, lettuce, cucumber and put some blueberries, strawberries
E: tomato sauce!
M: corn
Evita: What are lettuce, corn, cucumber and carrots called?
M: Vegetables. How about tomatoes? Tomatoes are a vegetable too!
Evita: Who grows vegetables?
J: Farmers!
Vegetables through our senses
Sense of sight
Lettuce
E: It's so big!
M: Green
R: Top part is white
A: It’s curvy
Carrot
A: It’s long
M: Orange
Potato
J: round
Ri: It’s kinda gold
Cucumber
R: it’s straight
A; It’s spiky
Onion
R: It’s round
Sense of Touch
Lettuce
A: cold
K: pari pari suru (crunchy)
Carrot
L: smooth
E: cold
M: hard
J: a little hard
Cucumber
R: bumpy
Sense of Smell
Carrot
B: smells good
M: good!
Onion
R: good
L: smells bad
Cucumber
J: smelly
K : Hana no nioi ga suru.
S: Bad!
Sense of Taste
Cucumber
E: I like it!
J: Crunchy ( while smiling)
R: nods head when asked if he liked it.
Carrot
L/ A/ M I like it!
R: like it
Cucumber
Y: Good
K: nods head when asked if he likes it
J: Seed needs water, sun and soil!
R: In Chiba I had a flower before.
Exciting news:were going to grow lima beans in Petals Class! But wait, what does a seed need to grow? Petals' friends knew that the seed would need: water, sunlight, and soil! In smaller groups, we put the lima beans and paper towel inside a plastic bag. Then we drop a few drops of water. We can’t wait for our seed to grow!
J: Can I have more beans?
R: I got 3 beans then I got 2 more.
S: (counting the beans he needs to get)
T: More water?
J: What is drowning?


In today's story time, Evita showed the class a Japanese book, Doko o tabete iru no? This book shows where vegetables grow. She asked the class to identify the vegetables and where they grow as she went through the book.
A: Potatoes!
R: Why is there no plant here? ( referring to the seed that hasn’t sprouted yet)
J: Onion, underground!
R: Broccoli!
E: I like eating broccoli!
L: Cauliflower
R: It looks like a flower.
M: cucumber
T: T like cucumber
J/A: Pumpkin!
A: I don’t like eating pumpkin.
E:I like pumpkin pie!
A: Me too!
Stay tuned for more adventures. See you all tomorrow!
Love,
Petals