Our Tu B'Shevat Celebration!

Exploring fruits

Tasting fruits

Nature walk/Visiting the Trees

Planting

This week in the Duck Room, we did a variety of activities to celebrate the holiday of Tu B'Shevat! We began our week by exploring with a variety of durable fruits -- oranges, grapefruits, lemons, limes, coconut, and pineapple.  The children held, carried, rolled, and threw the fruits.  They explored with the smell, sight, and feel of these familiar and unfamiliar fruits.  We then experienced the taste of these fruits as well at our classroom's Tu B'Shevat Seder.  The children were able to taste many different fruits, some of which they had eaten before, and others that were new.  Almost every child enjoyed and asked for "more" of at least one new food!  Later, we also explored the idea of planting on Tu B'Shevat by giving the children an opportunity to work with potting soil and grass seeds.  The children "planted" by scooping and dropping both the soil and the seeds.  Finally, we took a nature walk in the ECC nature trail.  The children visited the trees and identified different trees (large and small), ran from one tree to another, touched them, hid behind them, and even sang "Happy Birthday" to the trees!