Community: Life Is Like a Fruit Salad

Our wacky learning community!

Central Idea: The work people perform helps build community

 The children had an opportunity to experience this unit's central idea by way of working together to make a fruit salad. Everyone brought fruit to contribute and the children shared the work of chopping.

Before the chopping began a discussion made a connection between the fruit salad and a community. Each piece of fruit represented someone in the community and the job they do. This is what the children decided:

The grapes were children at school

The mango was a lawyer

The banana a cleaner

One piece of cantaloupe a professional mountain climber

The other piece of cantaloupe was Santa's food shopper

A fruit salad of apple alone would be pretty boring, and just like in a community it takes all different kinds of people mixed in together, working to help one another,  to create a wonderful, interesting place to live!

After the efforts of our little learning group community, who worked together, everyone enjoyed eating the Fruit Salad Community!