Fraction Fruit Salad

On the last Thursday of Term 3, we made (and ate!) fraction fruit salad.  There were three activities to do for fraction fruit salad, and it didn't matter which order you did them in, so long as they all got done.  Some people cut the fruit for the fruit salad first.

We cut this banana into 1/8ths, but cutting it into half first, then halving the two halves to make quarters, and finally halving the quarters to make eighths.

We cut this orange into quarters first.  Can you see the 4 pieces that are all the same size?

We cut the apple in half and the piece of pineapple into quarters.

Some people didn't like apple peel, so we peeled off the skin and put it in the worm bin.  We cut each pineapple quarter into quarters again.  How many pieces did we have when we cut all four quarters?  (Teacher tip:  you can use your times tables or repeated addition to solve this fraction fruit salad problem).

What fractions of an apple have we got here?

We mixed all the fruit fractions in a large bowl to make two giant fraction fruit salads.

Then it was eating time!

Isaiah brought some special maple biscuits from Canada for us to share as well.

Other people did the fruit salad poem first, and others did the fractions worksheet first.  Whichever order you chose didn't matter, because the fraction fruit salads were SO enormous, there was enough for everyone to have some.  There was even enough for some people who really like fruit to make three helpings!