Using Vocabulary and the Senses to Learn About Apples | NPT3
8/3/2022 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Kids can build descriptive vocabulary skills by using their senses to explore apples.
Sometimes snack time presents a great opportunity to eat something nutritious while also developing literacy skills. For example, when your child is enjoying an apple or other piece of fruit, you can talk a bit about the fruit. What color is it? What’s inside? How would you describe the smell, feel, and taste? Write down your observations and point out new vocabulary words.
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Using Vocabulary and the Senses to Learn About Apples | NPT3
8/3/2022 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Sometimes snack time presents a great opportunity to eat something nutritious while also developing literacy skills. For example, when your child is enjoying an apple or other piece of fruit, you can talk a bit about the fruit. What color is it? What’s inside? How would you describe the smell, feel, and taste? Write down your observations and point out new vocabulary words.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Developing descriptive vocabulary skills helps my kids learn and talk about the world around them.
Today, we are using our senses to explore apples.
Can you say golden delicious apple?
- Golden delicious apple.
- A short Curious George video, engages my kids and shows them that apples grow on trees.
Then we talk a little bit more about apples.
They're a round fruit grown in all 50 states.
They have red, green or yellow skin.
Apple trees come from the seeds inside of the apple.
We use our senses to describe the apples.
I ask my kids, "Do apples smell?
What color are they?
Are they hard or soft?
Do they make a sound when we take a bite?
How do they taste?"
- Taste like syrup.
- We write down our observations about the apples using new vocabulary words, like apple, skin, seeds and stem.
We have learned some new things and had a nutritious snack.
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