November 2015

October in Verde was very … tasty. We started the month with an exploration of what is a fruit and discovered that it is a part of a plant that has the seed inside. We knew that apples, pears and oranges were fruit, but we were surprised to learn that once we cut them open, a cucumber, a bell pepper and a tomato turned out to be a fruit too. We followed our discoveries with a tasting of all of the above and compared flavors and texture of the different fruit. Later in the month we talked about the parts of and life cycles of both apples and pumpkins and had another tasting, this time of different varieties of apples. We made a graph to illustrate how many of us favored which type of apples. We finished the month with carving pumpkins and learning about spiders.

​Next month we are going to explore the continent of Africa: its people, customs, fauna and flora. If you have any objects or pictures from that continent or have been there and would like to share your impressions with us please let us know.