The toddlers have been very interested in the apples falling from the trees lately. It’s too early to eat them, so instead we decided to cut them open and explore what the apples were all about! They were amazed to discover that there was a star in each apple! We talked about the texture, the smell, and the color and shapes we were finding in the apples. Later we expanded the exploration to see what they would do in water. Some sank but most of them floated, we brought in new vocabulary like