The Caribbean

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The Caribbean
Facts of the Caribbean
• The areas of higher populations are: Martinique, Guadelope,
Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Pto. Rico and Haiti.

• Language Variation: Our Dialectal Variation, refers to changes

in language due to various influences. These include, social,
geographic, individual and group factors.
Unit Lesson : Fruits and Vegetables from
The Caribbean
Literature Math Science Social Studies Art/Music/Dram
a
Week
One

Monday Read Aloud Introduce Put seeds in Talk about how the Making our
the book: The fraction to the numbered geography of the Caribbean
ABCs of children by containers. Caribbean can be Produce book by:
Caribbean doing the Mark each affected by heavy Hang pictures or
Fruits and following: section of the storms. have books
Vegetables. Cutting the garden with available of the
By: Julia E. vegetables in correspondin different types of
Antoine. half for g produce. Encour
example: location. Let age the children
Cutting the the children to draw a picture
guava in half = dig holes for of their favorite
One half, cut the the fruit or
banana in 3 seeds. Give vegetable. Label
pieces= ⅓ etc. them a ruler it with their name
so they know and make a class
exactly how book out of it!
far they need
to dig down.
Make a row
of vegetables
and the other
of fruits.
Tuesday Read Aloud the book:
Juliana's Bananas “Where
Do Your Bananas Come
From? By Ruth Walton.
Counting how many bananas
Farms are in the Windward
Islands.
Use magnifying glasses for
the children to examine the
tiny white flower that grows at
the end of the tiny bananas.
On a map of the Caribbean, show where in
the Windward islands the bananas come
from.
Listening to the song: Day - O
“The Banana Boat” By Harry
Belafonte, The children will work
with clay to create their bananas
painted in yellow.

Wednesday No kids on Wednesdays. No kids on Wednesdays. No kids on Wednesdays. No kids on Wednesdays. No kids on Wednesdays.

Thursday Read aloud the book : Have the children count how Use a small planter and Learn about the major Caribbean Islands Have children Trace the letter
Callaloo: A Jazz Folktale. many leaves are in a small plant the Callaloo seeds or where Callaloo is very essential for “C” for Callaloo and decorate the
branch of Callaloo. take the seeds to the garden cooking. letter with Callaloo leaves or
and plant the seeds there. seeds.
Other book: Growing
Vegetable Soup by: Lois
Ehlert
Friday Read aloud After reading the Learn the On a map of the Caribbean, Watercolor still life. A
Fruits: A book, have a difference show where the different fruit basket will be
Caribbean variety of fruits on between a variety fruits grow on each Island. placed on the table
Counting Poem the tables and have of fruits from the and each child will
by Valerie Bloom the children count Caribbean: be supplied with a
out as many as (guinep, jackfruit, pencil to sketch out
they can (around nasberry, guava, the fruit and then a
20). Let the watermelon and watercolor palette to
students find which sweet-sop, etc.). fill in the fruit that
is the common Cutting the fruits in they have drawn.
shape among the half for children to
fruits. observe the
variety of seed in
each fruit and
textures. (smooth,
rough, slimy, etc.)
Week Two:
WEEK Literature Math Science Social Studies Art/Music/Drama
TWO

Monday Read-Aloud Introducing The students will The students Cutting couple
the book: The Addition by analyze and learn and their fruits on half to
ABCs of The adding fruits about the seeds families will provide different
Caribbean and inside the tropical start a fruits and “Stamp” shapes
Fruits and Vegetables: fruits and vegetable for the children to
Vegetables. 2 Guavas vegetables garden. use with paint!
By: Dr. Julia E. +2 Bananas And how to plant
Antoine. =? them.

Tuesday Read-Aloud In a basket Let's find out Have the Corn on the Cob
the book: The is an which of the students learn painting:
Kai and Izzy amount of island have the about the Roll corn cobs in a
Tales. mangos, the high production of process it takes tray of shallow
By: Shari children will Mangos to grow a paint, then roll it
Penn. count how Mango tree. into a blank piece
many of paper.
Mangos are
inside the
basket?
Wednesday No kids on No kids on No kids on No kids on No kids on
Wednesdays. Wednesdays. Wednesdays. Wednesdays. Wednesdays.

Thursday Read-Aloud Counting all the Cutting some fruits and Sensory table with Dramatic play
The book: Oliver’s fruits for the vegetables to discover differentes fruits and “The Farmer Market”
Fruit Salad. By: fruit salad, how they look inside vegetables cut into The children will have a
Vivian French learning about and why is healthy to pieces, to check the variety of tropical fruits
shapes, weight eat fruits and texture, taste and and vegetables made of
and colors. vegetables. Families smell some of them plastic to play and they
were inviting to this and we all done would also learn about
activity. tasting and smelling the different
we will add shaving places where they
cream to imitate a (Children) could go and
fruit salad and see get fruits and
how it’s feels. Family vegetables.
member were
involved.
Friday Read-Aloud Children The students Students will I made a big dice with
the book: will visit the will learn about visit through all the colors on the
Wait and fruits and the types of visuals the sides. We talk about
See by: vegetable soils of the Island of how all fruits and
Tony garden and caribbean Trinidad and vegetables come in
Bradman count how islands Tobago the colors of the
many mayor rainbow. Then the
plants are production of children one by one
out. Bananas. will roll the dice and
think of a fruit or
vegetable that was
that color. Then I will
tell them what was
good about that fruit or
vegetable.
Books: