Parts of an Apple and Tomato

We explored the parts of the apple and tomato after we did a couple of fruits activities.  Here’s the link for our apple crafts and fruit stamping.

A brief discussion of the life cycle of the apple tree. Got this file from Montessori For Everyone.

 

We worked the 3-part cards of the Parts of an Apple using the ones I bought from Montessori Print Shop. 

I took out samples of each parts of the apple and placed them on the cupcake cases.  After the “touch and feel”, I let my son match the pictures and labels to the control cards (not shown).

 

Same goes with the tomato. 

 

He was fascinated with the tomato.... he can’t stop touching the funiculus LOL.

So happy that I get to show him what’s the real thing... as comparison to what we have in the cards :)  It makes it more attractive and interesting to the little boy.  Hope I could do that to the rest of our nomenclatures.

 

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The Colorful World of Fruits

This was inspired by this post from How We Montessori.

The printed materials were downloaded from At Home with Montessori.

 

This was one activity my son totally loved! What’s not in the picture was when we ate the other half of each fruit LOL.

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The Life Cycle of Apple – Preschool Version

Here’s what we did last week, how apples came to be, and where did they come from.  We did lots of work on fruits last week due to the bad weather.  Will post the rest next :)

He did all the coloring and cutting.  I made him use the glue stick instead of a liquid glue for a change.  He loves using it, “it’s not messy Mommy” he said.

 

Below is another version of the life cycle.  Instead of a printable, we used colored cardstock to recreate the first one.  This is inspired by a pin in my Pinterest page. Sorry I forgot the link  but you can find the source there under the Spring Theme board.

Here’s what he ended up with.  He placed both works in his room :)

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