Application 1 (Apple Tree): Activity 4
We ask our children and want them to think:
"Seeing, Touching, Smelling, Hearing, Tasting"
We ask our children:
• See the apple !
• Touch the apple !
• Smell the apple !
• Hear the apple !
• Taste the apple !
... and want them to think:
Apple Tree / Activity 4
•
SEEING:
Teacher: Look at the apples in your hands. How do they look like?
Cem Emre: Red apples, they look good!
Teacher: Are they shiny or pale?
Cem Emre: Pale.
Teacher: Well, what can you tell about the shape of the apple?
Doğa: It looks like a circle.
Teacher: Do you know any other fruit that is bigger or smaller than my apple?
Işıl: Yes, peach is bigger and a grape is smaller than the apple.
Teacher: What do you think how many seeds are there in an apple?
Emre: 20 seeds.
Arda: My apple looks good. My apple has two colours on it; red and green.It is colourful.
• TOUCHING:
Teacher: Take the apple in your hands. How do you feel?
Beste: It is like a ball and it is cold.
Mert: My apple is hard and a little bit heavy. It is not rough. It makes me feel hot.
Elif: My apple is soft. It is not heavy and its shape is OK. My apple is warm.
Arda: My apple is smooth. It is a little bit heavy but not too much.I don’t feel any rises on it, my apple is also warm.
Akın: My apple is too hard, it is not too heavy. Its shape is OK and it is not rough. It is not hot.
• SMELLING:
Teacher: How do the apples smell? I want everybody to smell the apples.
Emre: My apple smells good. It smells like an apple. It is not as something as I’ve smelt before.
Arda: I smelt my apple and it smelt like an apple. The smell of my apple is like a watermelon.
Doğa: When I smelt my apple, it smelt like an apple. It smelt like a toothpaste.
Kaan: I am smelling the apple. It is the smell of an apple. It reminds me of a banana that I’ve smelt before.
Mert: My apple is smelling good. The smell of my apple reminds me the smell of a delicious cake.
Elif: My apple smells like a flower. It doesn’t remind me of anything . It is only like a flower.
Arda Alim: My apple smells like grapes. Moreover, the smell of my apple reminds me the smell of my toy cars.
• HEARING:
Teacher: What are the apples saying to you? Are they talking with you?
Cem: We can’t hear because they have no voice. They can’t talk with me.
Arda: There is no sound.
Doğa: I can’t hear anything. The apple is not talking with me.
Kaan: It is a quiet apple, it didn’t say anything to me. But when I bite it, I can hear it making some strange sounds.
Ceren: This apple doesn’t talk.
Tuna: The apple spoke silently and it said to me “ Eat me.”
Işıl: When I bite the apple, I can hear some voices.
Akın: Let us be quiet. Maybe we can hear something and maybe it says, “Eat me”.
Elif: I don’t think it is an apple full of magic.
Mete: Apples can not talk.
• TASTING:
Teacher: Bite your apples and tell me how do they taste?
Cem: When I bit my apple, it tasted like an apple. It was like the chewing gum which tasted like an apple.
Arda: My apple tasted like an apple. It also tasted like a pear.
Mert: Yes, I bit my apple. It tasted like an apple. It was delicious. It reminds me of the pear that I have eaten before.
Teacher: Does its taste remind you of something that you have eaten before?
Kaan: When I bit the apple, it reminds of the taste of the green apple. Moreover, it smells like the candle we have at home.
Doğa: My apple tastes like an apple. It reminds me of the flavour of the toothpaste we have at home.
Elif: My best apple is green apple, it tastes delicious. It smells like a shampoo.
Akın: When I bit my apple, some water came out of it. My apple tasted like a kiwi.
