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Provocation: Apple & Pear

This group was presented with an apple and a pear. We had to wash our hands before eating them. A. said, "We have to wash the apple." I told him I'd already washed it. He replied, "But there's no water on it." I told him it was dry, then realized I should let him go and wash it, the same way we washed our hands. So he did.

 B. had an apple in his hand and said, "I need a manifying glass." He went and got the magnifying glass to look at the apple and he shared it with the other children at the table so they could look too.

 C. is new to speaking English. I cut the apple into pieces for him and counted 1,2,3,4. I realized that I should learn the Polish numbers to help connect with him.

 I asked:
Do you like apples?
Do you like pears?
Do you like falling down the stairs?

 Do you like white?
Do you like pink?
Do you like falling down the sink?

 Would you like to do that. "No, you'd get hurt?" said D.

 B. talked about the apple being big when he looked through the magnifying glass.

 E. talked about the seed. I said, "Did you see the seed?"
E. replied, "I already took it out."
I asked, "What could you do with it?"
D. said, "You can take it outside, dig a hole, put it over and get an apple."

 B. said,  "I have apples at home."
A asked, "I have apples at home too. Do you have apples at home?" He asked C. who is learning English. I repeated the word "apple" as he ate his apple.

 "Look I trapped it." B. had used the magnifying glass to cover the stalk of the apple.

The magnifying glasses became the object of interest. So too did cleaning the apple. So too did the skin of the apple and the seeds of the apple.

 The rhyme was not needed for this provocation. I wonder what will happen when I do this with the next school group tomorrow.

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