Additional Learning Resources for our Banana Life Cycle Unit Study

Read:

Watch a Banana Grow (Bullfrog Books: Watch It Grow) by Kirsten Chang

Bad Bananas: A Story Cookbook for Kids by Karl Beckstrand

Betty Goes Bananas by Steve Antony

Banana by Ed Vere

Beautiful Bananas by Elizabeth Laird

Once Upon a Banana by Jennifer Armstrong


Where Do Bananas Come From? A Book of Fruits by Arielle Dani Lebovitz

The Boy Who Loved Bananas by George Elliott

Who Took My Banana? by Sally Huss

I'm Famous!: The Unpeeled Story of a Banana by Jamie R. Gandy

So Many Bananas! by Tina Gallo

The Biography of Bananas by Rachel Eagen

These Colors Are Bananas by Jason Fulford

Let’s learn about how bananas grow:

More about the Banana Flowers:


Banana Flower is a Superfood!


Go on a hunt for some Banana Flowers in Thailand, and learn how they use them in a delicious Shrimp Salad!


https://youtu.be/fce3JfQ6Zj0



After watching the video above, write down what you have learned about Banana Trees.

How to plant a Banana Tree:

Fun Game to pair this lesson with:

Bananagrams WildTiles Vocabulary Game

Paint:

B is for Banana Coloring Page, and a selection of art appreciation of bananas and art journal pages!

Cook: Banana Bread (recipe included)

Watch this helpful video on how to make banana bread:

Banana Bread 4 Ways: fun baking video:

Plus, here is a helpful post we found that shares 30 recipes you can use ripe bananas for!



Tag us with your Banana masterpieces on Instagram! I can’t wait to see them!

~Alexandra

Other Life Cycle resources you might like:

Crab Apple Adventure and Life Cycle Unit Study
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Continue your read, paint, cook journey through Europe and North America with the fruit from the crab apple tree with books, art, tea party guide, recipes, art appreciation and math counters too!

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This learning pack and adventure is perfect for kids 4+ and includes subjects such as language arts with tracing, reading, and poetry, art, coloring, science and has original watercolor botany life cycles, and Montessori 3 part cards. This printable has been created for you to use in your home or classroom, to learn about crab apple trees, and the different varieties found in Europe and North America. Mix and Match it with our other creative curriculum, such as our Masterpiece Essentials ABC + 123, The Masterpiece Adventures in England, and France which are soon to be released, as well as our Ireland and Italy Adventure Series.

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  • Books About Apples We Love + QR Code with Additional Learning Resources

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  • Montessori 3-part cards (cursive + manuscript)

  • Different Types of Crab Apple Trees: 1. Malus Sylvestris (Europe) 2. Malus Coronaria (North America)

  • My Crab Apple Life Cycle Workbook - Cover + Pages (11+)

  • Poetry Copy-work: “The Apple Tree" and “Apple Blossoms" by Hattie Howard 1860-1920

  • Note-Booking Pages for both poems

  • Poem Word Search + Counting Worksheets, for both poems

  • Crab Apple Tea Party Guide + Banner Craft + Art Project Frame Page + Crab Apple Crisp

  • Plus 4 more recipes for baking with Crab Apples; Brown Sugar Pie Dough, Crab Apple Pie, and Crab Apple Jelly

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Please Tag us on Instagram @build_your_masterpiece_class to be featured! I cannot wait to see your crab apple masterpieces! Enjoy building them. ~Alexandra

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Chocolate Adventures + Life Cycle of Cacao BUNDLE
$14.00

What’s better than Chocolate? We use it in our baking and cooking for almost every holiday, but where does it come from? Come find out in our next #readpaintcook journey all about Chocolate! This Build Your Masterpiece Class Adventure will take you and your kids around the World to learn where chocolate comes from, how the Cocao Tree is grown, what type of habitat it needs to grow in, and where it is made, and how it spread across Europe in the 1600s, plus enjoy some fun hands-on activities such as chocolate taste-testing, reading children’s books all about cacao, counting with chocolate, vocabulary words about chocolate, the process of making Chocolate and so much more!

This unit study is great to enjoy during the month of February, and around Valentine’s Day, but also any time of year. We have also included a special Life Cycle of a Cacao Tree Unit Study with Montessori-Inspired 3-part cards, posters, counting cards, a sequencing activity, 3-D Craft, Coloring Pages, Coloring Book + Reader, Poetry Copywork, Tracing, Chocolate Recipes and more with our BUNDLED 70-page adventure for ages 3 to 13 and beyond! ( The Life Cycle of a Cacao Tree Unit Study is also sold separately).

What’s included in our Chocolate Adventures:

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  • Build Your Masterpiece Class Passport + Chocolate Adventure Stamp

  • Europe Coloring Map

  • C is for Chocolate Lesson Plan

  • C is for Chocolate Letter Page

  • Making Chocolate Crinkle Cookies Lesson Plan

  • Chocolate Crinkle Cookies Recipe

  • Chocolate Crinkle Cookies Coloring Page

  • Top 10 Countries that Produce Chocolate

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  • Chocolate Cloud Dough

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  • Chocolate Writing Activity Plus 3 pages of Vocabulary Cards

  • Different Types of Cacao 3-Part Cards

  • ALSO INCLUDED: The Life Cycle of a Cacao Tree Unit Study - Find more details of the contents of this 39-page PDF Unit Study here.

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