Exploring Avocados

Keesha: Shall we make a discovery? Shall we check and see what's inside the avocado? Huh? What do you think is in here? What do you think is inside? Inside the avocado? Andrew, you working on getting inside the avocado? Andrew's opening up his avocado. Let me see, friends.

Child: Oh!

Keesha: Oh. You are experimenting with rolling your avocado because it's so round. You too, Mia? You going to roll it around the table? Hmm? You helping Mia with your — with your fork? You want to use it on your avocado? Hmm? Let's see You want to try and open another avocado? Let's see if I can help you.

Child: Ah!

Keesha: Ah.

Marie: You're almost there, Andrew.

Keesha: Yes. You're taking out — You have dark green on the outside of the avocado, and light green on the inside of the avocado. Mia, you're eating it. How does it taste? How does it taste? It smells so good. Did you see that? Mia's scooping her avocado out with her spoon like you are. Yes. Let's see. You want me to help you? You want to hold it? Thank you. You're sharing with me, huh?

Marie: You going to try some more, Andrew?

Keesha: Look.

Marie: Oh, Miss Keesha helped you. Oh, you're stacking.

Keesha: You're stacking your avocado inside your avocado.

Marie: You going to try with your hands? Feels smooth inside.

Keesha: What do you think, Eileen? You're done with the spoon? You gonna touch it, too? Huh? You hear Miss Marie talking about how slippery and smooth it is? It is slippery and smooth. I feel it. Can you feel it? You taking Andrew's avocado? Andrew, you want another avocado? Huh? Mia got ahold of your avocado, huh?

Exploring Roly-Polies

Jessica: Yesterday during small group time, we went outside to look for the roly-polies, remember?

Children: Yeah.

Jessica: Where did we go find the roly-polies?

Girl: In the grass, because they like to live where it's so wet.

Jessica: The roly-polies live in the dark, wet, moist areas. How do you know that?

Girl No. 2: Because they live under the dirt.

Jessica: Because it lives under the dirt. Yes, and under — and where it's dark. Today, we're gonna observe our roly-polies. We're gonna use our senses to find something out. We may use our eyes to look at the roly-polies, or we need to touch them to find out what it feels like. Oh, here's one. That's a real roly-poly.

[Children talking indistinctly]

I'm gonna pass them out, yes.

Girl: There's a lot of them. It tickles.

Jessica: Does it tickle when you touch it?

Girl: Yeah. [Laughter]

Jessica: So, when you pick it up, it tickles?

[Girl talks indistinctly]

Oh, it does tickle. You're right.

Girl No. 3: A baby one! A baby!

Jessica: How do you know that that's the baby one?

Girl No. 3: It's white.

Jessica: It's white. Remember when we talked about during small group time that the rolypolies that are born are white and clear?

Girl No. 4: I dropped it.

Jessica: Are you using your magnifying glass to look at the roly-polies?

Girl No. 5: A worm!

Jessica: Oh! Sometimes we might find some worms inside the — the soil. Does the worm look like the roly-poly?

Girl No. 5: No.

Jessica: No? What does that worm look like?

Girl No. 5: Wiggly.

Jessica: It wiggles. Yours is crawling up your hand.