Avocado Seed

"My mom showed me this seed and I asked if I could bring it to school." C

"What are we going to do with it?" G

"Let's cut it in half. " L

"Lets plant it, we grow avocados." C

So we looked up some ideas on the internet. We saw a way to get it to grow, but what will it grow?

Here is C writing the instructions to grow an avocado. She sounded out words and wrote this on her on!

So, after the first day of inquiry, I decided to go buy some more avocados and see what the children wanted to with them.

"It's pretty black." E 

"It's green inside." C

"It's very bumpy." M

"It smells like a pumpkin." X

We discovered that G LOVES avocado!!!

Any friend who wanted a little taste came over for a bite. Some children decided that it looked funny and would not try it.

"We have another seed, can we cut that one in half?" L

Yes! and we found out some people grate the seed and eat it too.

We also got our techie brains out and looked up some facts about avocado. Like: they grown in the heat, where it is warm like Mexico. You can make food with avocado, like guacamole, and it is good for your skin. B had a lovely spa treatment!

There are avocado farmers. They pick them from trees and send them to Zehrs.

We weighed them. Wait a minute, that avocado isn't real, its from the house centre. How do you know that? The children made some observations about the real one and fake one. The colours were different, one is heavy, they made different sounds when you tapped them on the table.

"This one is hard but a little squishy, this one you can't squish it at all."

"can we make guacamole?" Absolutely! And the cooking experiemnt begins.

So we cut them, we scooped them, we squeezed in lemon and shook in salt, we added a bit of cilantro. That was knew!!! What a stinky herb!

The children stirred and mushed it. Then....we got to eat it. Many children tried the guacamole on a tortilla chip. It was a first for many! Others only wanted the chip:)

Look how many friends got involved! This was a great inquiry. I can't wait to see what happen to our seed.

Then we found this silly video that went with our experiment..lol 

Thank you Mrs. DiPonio for getting us started.

Please parents, if you EVER have something your child is inquiring about, send me a shout, we would love to explore with them. During these explorations, or purposeful play, your children are learning so much and becoming confident learners!

We didn't learn how to make guacamole, we learned measuring, turn taking, weight, technology, printing, sounding out words, being resourceful, other cultures and even touched on a new language, sharing and so much more.