We had great fun in our first Edible Social Studies classes together. In the classroom, the kindergarteners read Lois Ehlert’s colorful book Planting A Rainbow, which features some plants that Rooms 107 and 111 are already growing by the window! We discussed how colorful fruits and vegetables provide healthy phytonutrients to our growing bodies. Similarly, the diversity of our school community only makes us stronger.
In the kitchen, we made a rainbow fruit salad, cutting up first-of-the-season California strawberries, peeling and segmenting Golden Nugget mandarins, slicing mangoes, peeling kiwis, and combining them with blueberries and blackberries. In the process, we learned to use some new tools, got messy, worked together, and got to enjoy a sweet snack outside.
