Today we talked about le verdure e la frutta. We started the day off coloring in a bunch of fruits and vegetables. The kids colored in things such as la mela, l’arancia, la banana, la melanzana, la pera, la lattuga, la patata, la carota, and i broccoli.
Before introducing the new theme of the day, we reviewed our numbers and colors as always. The kids love pointing to all of the numbers and animals while we sing. Nico always loves handing out and collecting le bacchette magiche when we do ordine.
Poi, abbiamo introdotto il tema nuovo del giorno: le verdure e la frutta. We passed around the different vegetables that go in an orto and the fruits that go in a giardino. We talked about il limone, i peperoni, i piselli, i pomodori, la lattuga, la pera, la mela, l’arancia, la carota, e la melanzana.
We then read the story, “La Rapa Gigante” (The Giant Turnip) in Italian and in English. The children learned about the fruits and vegetables the kids in the book grew in their school garden.
After talking about all of the fruits and vegetables, tutti avevano fame! We had our merenda that consisted of biscotti, pretzels, succo di mela, and acqua, but we also gave out some carote!
We then moved onto the craft. Each child pasted a few of the fruits and veggies they had colored in earlier onto jumbo craft sticks to make fruit and vegetable puppets.
We took out a small toy teatro/palco where the kids were able to put on a small spettacolo. Each camper went behind the curtain with their fruit and vegetable burattini and would say for example: “Ciao, sono la mela, come stai?” The kids had a blast and really got to know the names of the fruits and vegetables in Italian after all of the repetition.
The campers had a great time playing with the puppets and seem to be having more and more fun each day!
A domani!