Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program

Teachers are encouraged to use the fruit or vegetable snack for the day as an opportunity to make connections to daily curriculum:

• Writing
  • Creative writing; descriptive sentences, poetry, short stories
  • Instructional writing: recipes, directions
  • Informational text: gathering information to make an opinion
• Mathematics
  • Use fruits and vegetables as examples in fractions, sharing problems and building wholes from fractions
  • Use counting, sorting and classifying of fruits and vegetables to collect, organize and represent data
  • Use fruits and vegetables to explore volume, weighing and measuring
  • Use fruits and vegetables as examples of geometric shapes
• Geography/Social Studies
  • Show on a map the parts of the world where the fruit or vegetable is grown
  • Discuss how the fruit or vegetable has been used in different cultures throughout history
  • Discuss if the fruit or vegetable has a special place in cultural celebrations
• Science
  • Discuss how a fruit or vegetable grows ( ex: on a tree or on a plant, above ground or below ground)
  • Study plant development and life cycle
  • Demonstrate seed germination
  • Explore form and function of plant parts
  • Classify fruits and vegetables based on their properties
  • Encourage students to use their five senses to observe and describe different fruits and vegetables
  • Plant an “edible” garden