Wonderful watermelons

The sweet smell along with the beautiful pink and green color makes a watermelon an especially inviting fruit to taste, create, and hold. We spent some time on our last day of preschool doing just that – exploring and creating watermelons…

Wonderful Watermelons by Teach Preschool

We began our short study of a watermelon by reading the book The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli…

Wonderful Watermelons by Teach Preschool

This is a super silly book about what might happen if you swallow a watermelon seed. If you don’t mind a little burping, then you will think this book is quite funny. My kids thought it was super funny but it did raise the question as to whether or not you should swallow a watermelon seed. In the end, we decided that it probably wasn’t a good idea to swallow a watermelon seed but that if you do, the watermelon seed isn’t going to really grow inside you…

Wonderful Watermelons by Teach Preschool

After reading our story, we passed around a real watermelon and talked about its shape and weight…

Wonderful Watermelons by Teach Preschool

And then we cut our whole watermelon in half to see what it looked like inside and drew some pictures of watermelon on our white board…

Wonderful Watermelons by Teach Preschool

Then the children tasted some watermelon for snack time and made their own watermelons from paper napkins…

Wonderful Watermelons by Teach Preschool

To make their paper watermelons, the children started by drawing an outline of their watermelon shape with a pencil…

Wonderful Watermelons by Teach Preschool

Then the children brushed watered down glue on top of their drawings…

Wonderful Watermelons by Teach Preschool

And then begin tearing their pink and green napkins into small pieces and adding the pieces to the glue to fill in their drawings…

Wonderful Watermelons by Teach Preschool

The children found if they opened up their napkins before tearing that it would be much easier to tear the paper…

Wonderful Watermelons by Teach Preschool

Every paper watermelon turned out beautifully…

Wonderful Watermelons by Teach Preschool

Wonderful Watermelons by Teach Preschool

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Links to Grow On

Simple watermelon sun catchers by Teach Preschool

Watermelon Exploration in Preschool by Teach Preschool

Watermelon Song and Painting by Teach Preschool

Deborah J Stewart

Deborah J Stewart

Every time I think I know everything I need to know about teaching young children, God says, "Hold on a minute!" and gives me a new challenge.

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God didn't call wimps to lead, teach, or care for His children. Nope, he has high expectations, so get ready. You will have to give your very best but after teaching for over 30 years, I can tell you that it is a wonderful and rewarding journey.

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