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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes.  It is a lot easier to make fruit salad and help a K kid "record" the recipe when you are working one on one.[/quote]

True, I've also made fruit salad with my kid at home, and it was definitely easier.  What is your point?

But this particular lesson is not particularly hard to teach in a classroom.  If you notice, I didn't pick complex fruit.  No cutting, for example.

You  Maybe you have a kid staying in for recess due to allergies.  If so, have him peel the oranges.

During center time, you set out bowls with 3 or 4 kinds of fruit.  A bowl of blueberries, a bowl of red grapes, a bowl of green grapes, a bowl of separated orange segments.

You call over a group of 6 or so (aim to get through 4 groups).  Have each kid pick 10 pieces of fruit.  Yep, some will need help to count them some won't.  (Hopefully, you've managed to teach at least some of your kids to count by January) Make your groups heterogenous so you aren't helping 6 kids at once.  Line them up on a paper towel so that the same fruits are together (e.g. you have a 3 blueberries next to each other).  Give kid a graphic organizer with the words "Fruit salad recipe" at the top, and 10 boxes down the side.  Have them place it next to their line of fruit and draw the fruit that goes there.  (e.g. count the blueberries, there are 3, draw blueberries in the first 3 boxes), then place the fruit in a paper cup.  Send your more advanced kids back to the table to write the words and eat their salad (note: by "write" I mean RD GP for "red grapes" for the more advanced kids), keep lower group with you and help them write the first letters, then send them back to eat.

Call over another group of kids.  [/quote]

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