So - just because summer is over in many states (though here in sunny Florida it is STILL almost 90 degrees daily) does not mean we should not think about fruits/frutas and how delicious and juicy and ripe and sweet and amazing they can be to taste on a hot summer day (and even on a lovely brisk fall day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).
Thus, we are at the doorstep of some Fruit Fun / Fruta divertida with our Boca Beth bilingual lessons for children ages birth - ten!
Fruit Fun / Fruta divertida
From BOCA BETH
Limes! Oranges! Strawberries! Bananas! Grapes! Kiwi!
Cherries! Watermelon! Cantaloupe! Plums! Honeydews!
Lemons! Pears! Blueberries! Raspberries! Blackberries!
“FRUIT FUN” off our second bilingual music CD for children titled “More Boca Beth”
(sung to “Farmer in the Dell”)
I see a grape,
I see a grape,
Sing by yourself now!
I see a grape!I see a pear,
I see a pear,
Sing by yourself now!
I see a pear!I see a strawberry,
I see a strawberry,
Sing by yourself now!
I see a strawberry!
I see a watermelon,
I see a watermelon,
Sing by yourself now!
I see a watermelon!
I see a banana,
I see a banana,
Sing by yourself now!
I see a banana!
I see an apple,
I see an apple,
Sing by yourself now!
I see an apple!
I see an orange,
I see an orange,
Sing by yourself now!
I see an orange! |
Veo una uva,
Veo una uva,
¡Canta solo ahora!
¡ Veo una uva !Veo una pera,
Veo una pera,
¡ Canta sola ahora !
¡ Veo una pera !Veo una fresa,
Veo una fresa,
¡Canta solo ahora!
¡Veo una fresa!
Veo una sandía,
Veo una sandía,
¡Canta sola ahora!
¡Veo una sandía!
Veo un plátano,
Veo un plátano,
¡Canta solo ahora!
¡Veo un plátano!
Veo una manzana,
Veo una manzana,
¡Canta sola ahora!
¡Veo una manzana!
Veo una naranja,
Veo una naranja,
¡Canta solo ahora!
¡Veo una naranja! |
Circle time activities for this fun
bilingual Fruit Song:
Using a plastic bowl with plastic fruits from my kitchen play
center that match the fruits sung about in this song, I stand up
with the children standing and they sing back to me the “I see a
grape” “Veo una uva.” The ones who do really well singing back
and not shouting back get to hold the fruit they sang about
without grabbing for it.
The children have so much fun keeping the beat, echoing back,
seeing and holding the actual fruits and trying to say a complete
sentence and not just one word in their new language.
Notice I never say “The verb is ver and to say “I see” in Spanish
you should say “Veo.” We do not conjugate verbs in the Boca
Beth Program. The children will get it as they repeat, repeat,
repeat acting like sponges with each new word, each new
phrase.
Coloring book pages, board books on fruits and magazine
pictures can also bring this song to life for the children! Then get really brave and introduce all of the real fruits during a Summer
Fruit Fiesta!!!
Art Time Activities for Fruit Fun:
Fruit Made From Styrofoam Balls:
Invest in some Styrofoam balls of various sizes for this fun
Summer Fruit Fun Project, and invite parents to help as needed.
The children can “produce” their own fruit by using the small
balls and paint them purple to become plums. Perhaps they can
make apples with the medium-sized balls and paint them red.
(Other thoughts can be gathered from the children as you
discuss the concept of round, circle and which fruits fall into
that category – based on the group’s age range!)
When the various ‘fruits’ are dry try placing green Popsicle
sticks which have been previously painted by the children
through the top. These sticks become the stems of the fruit as
needed. Get super creative and apply leaves by gluing various
shades of green fabric to the top of the fruits by the stems.
Strawberry Shampoo Painting:
Buy some inexpensive strawberry shampoo then mix it with
green watercolor paint. After a walk outside if you live near any
type of fruit garden, fruit trees, orchards, fields of strawberries
or something of the kind or after you read a book about fruits
(preferably a bilingual one – see later resources) or maybe after
clipping pictures of fruits from the Food Ads in the local paper
… encourage the children to paint with this shampoo paint on
red paper (since the green is mixed in).
Wait until it dries! Ay mama… it is a scratch and sniff heaven
full of strawberry scent!
Snack Time Fun with Fruits:
Apple Taste Fun: Cut apples into wedges and have
available in large bowls for dipping several flavors of Jell-O mix in its
powdered form. Invite the children to dip an apple wedge into one of the
Jell-O powders, covering all sides of the apple. When you let the apple sit
for many seconds, it turns a bright, vibrant color. The children are then
encouraged to eat the apple. It’s a messy activity but great fun!
Suggested Jell-O’s to use are orange, raspberry, lime and blueberry.
Yummy!
Make Me A Watermelon Please:
Buy two kinds of sherbet: a green and a pink (or red). Buy a bag of
chocolate chips. Cover the inside of a medium sized bowl with aluminum
foil. Place the green sherbet inside the bowl and form it to the bowl
around the perimeter. Mix the chocolate chips with the pink (red) sherbet
and then scoop it inside the green. Freeze it. When ready to eat, turn it
upside down on a plate, peel the foil off and slice. It looks just like a
watermelon! The chocolate chips look just like the seeds of the
watermelon! It is so cool!!!
Most of this Fruit Fun comes from our very cool, very affordable Boca Beth Educator’s Club that goes out to members monthly via a fun downloadable PDF file. Check it out - for only 5 cents per day it’s the best thing since disposable diapers!
Happy Educating! ¡Sea feliz educando!
Boca Beth
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