Today the little monkey had to bring in fruit for her "gouter" or snack. She has to bring in fruit every Thursday to share with the class. I have grown bored of buying the standard bananas and apples. So today I spiced it up and had her bring in the little bite sized tomatoes and an orange.
I pick her up from school and asked how snack time went. She said, "mama, we can't bring in tomatoes because they are not a fruit! The teacher said so." Well now. We may have an international difference here. Maybe next time I will let her bring in a pumpkin!
So what do you think?
4 comments:
is it too early to break the truth to Allie that teachers dont know everything and are not always right??
From Pops.
From Webster's New World College Dictionary--------
"tomato--a red or yellowish fruit with a juicy pulp, used as a vegetable: botanically it is a berry."
As mentioned in the one response to your blog, teachers aren't always right.Let Allie in on the fact!
Ray
We need to find that definition in a French dictionary and have Allie take it to school. You don't have to tell her what the 'note' says. Tell her that it's just a note from her parents. Make sure to highlight the word "fruit" in the dictionary. Cool that it's one of those words that is shared between English and French.
Botanically speaking, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant, i.e. a fruit. However, from a culinary perspective the tomato is typically served as a meal, or part of a main course of a meal, meaning that it would be considered a vegetable (a culinary term which has no botanical meaning).
Ed G
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