Smoothie

With such hot weather, what better way to stay cool than making a delicious and healthy snack?  Below are some ideas for embedding various levels of language into making a fruit smoothie.

Beginning language learners at the 1-3 word levels:

• Open containers for juice, fresh fruit, or frozen fruit.
• Wash fresh fruits separately to build in language opportunity (wash +fruit)
• Cut large fruits (such as watermelon) into chunks, or cut stems off of fruits, such as strawberries.
• Pour fruits into the blender and pour the smoothie into cups

For higher level language targets:

• Expose your child to higher level vocabulary- colander for washing fruits, blender, cutting board, etc.
• Talk about location of where you are pouring (i.e: in the blender, in the cup).
• Have the child tell someone else how they made the smoothie.
  
• Talk about possession- pour into Mom's cup, Dad's cup, etc.
• Predict the color of the smoothie- experiment with ingredients to make yellow smoothies, red smoothies, purple smoothies.

                          Enjoy!

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