Coconuts!

In conjunction with "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" week, we decided to do some science with coconuts today.  We started with the coconuts covered under a towel.  The kiddos stuck their hands under and just used the sense of touch to discover the coconuts.  Then we looked at them and shook them to hear the milk inside.

Next we hammered a nail into the coconut so we could drain the milk out and taste it.  None of us were fond of the tasted at all.  Yuckers!  And we were surprised to find the milk was clear!

Then we took our coconut outside and hammered and hammered on it until finally we got it cracked open!  We tasted the coconut flesh inside and were disappointed to find that it tasted like the milk.  Bleck!

I think when I teach this again I'll have some commercial coconut out for the kiddos to taste too.  But it was fun to explore it together and to taste the parts and to hear the milk inside!  That was intriguing.