Thursday, August 4, 2011

What Is An Orange?

Today we wondered what an orange was like. After looking at, feeling and smelling the orange we discovered that an orange is round, orange, hard, smooth and quite heavy.
We cut the orange in half and discovered that it has pith in the middle, membranes to divide the segments and juice sacs in each segment.
Interesting facts about oranges ~
*They do not grow in the Northern Territory and Tasmania because it is too hot or too cold.
*The bigger the navel on an orange the sweeter the orange is.
*Oranges can produce their own sunscreen.
*Oranges belong to the citrus family.
*Oranges provide our bodies with vitamin C.

4 comments:

Celia Coffa said...

That is a lot of great facts about Oranges. I wonder, how many ways you can think of to use oranges in food and cooking?
Thanks for sharing.

Jacqui Johnson said...

Will J came home from school and told me he had learned about oranges today, so we made an orange, watermelon and apple smoothie for afternoon tea.

Yum!

Amelia said...

Great work JD.
I didn't know information about oranges.
Do you know about pears?

Anonymous said...

Hi Amelia,
We are still learning about fruit. We don't know about pears yet. Do you know about any other fruits?
From,
Mrs David and Junior D

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