I wonder why strawberries are red? 
What the child already knows
"Strawberries are good to eat when they are red."
"Strawberries are yummy and are a good afternoon treat".
"Strawberries can be cooked... My mum makes strawberry pancakes".
He knows you can pick strawberries at a strawberry farm and his mum gets them from the shop.
Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)
Early Years Learning Framework Links
Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners.
Learning Experience ideas
Stories about strawberries, plants and how to grow seedlings.
Strawberry Playdough
Strawberry Investigation
Strawberry Jam
English
Science
Design and Technology
We have read the story "The little mouse, the red ripe strawberry and the big hungry bear".
Strawberry Picking song
Materials: Magnifying glasses, strawberry seeds, strawberries (to eat and to investigate) strawberry books, listening post with you tube video about the life cycle of a strawberry plant and strawberry plant.
Tiny Seed
Strawberry song to the tune of 'Oh my darling'. Picked a strawberry, Picked a strawberry, That was growing in the sun, then I washed, then I ate then I picked another one.
Planting a rainbow
National Geographic Seed to Plant
Magic School Bus Plants Seeds
4.1 - Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity,cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity.
4.2 - Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesizing, researching and investigating.
Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world.
2.4 - Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment.
Participate with others to solve problems and contribute to group outcomes
Use play to explore, project and investigate new ideas. # # #Link Title
Show growing appreciation and care for natural and constructed environments
Are curious and enthusiastic participants
in their learning #
Express wonder and interest in their
environments #
Make predictions and generalisations about their daily activities, aspects of the natural world and environments,using patterns they generate or identify and communicate these using mathematical language and symbols.
Plant a strawberry seedling or plant some strawberry seeds in the Kindy garden.
Look at the life cycle of a strawberry
Strawberry Paint - use essential oils and colour to make the paint smell like strawberries for free paint
Science as a Human Endeavour
Language
Strawberries are red.
He has not been strawberry picking before but is excited to go on the school excursion to the strawberry farm.
Strawberries are my favourtie fruit... I love them because they are sweet.
Literature #
Literacy
Understand that language can be used to explore ways of expressing needs, likes and dislikes (ACELA1429)
Respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators (ACELT1577)
Replicate the rhythms and sound patterns in stories, rhymes, songs and poems from a range of cultures (ACELT1579) #
Science Inquiry skills
Science Understanding
Daily and seasonal changes in our environment affect everyday life (ACSSU004)
Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events (ACSHE013) #
Pose and respond to questions about familiar objects and events (ACSIS014) #
Engage in discussions about observations and represent ideas (ACSIS233) #
Participate in guided investigations and make observations using the senses (ACSIS011) #
Share observations and ideas (ACSIS012) #
Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding
Health and Physical Exercise
Personal, Social and Community Health
Practise personal and social skills to interact positively with others (ACPPS004) #
Identify actions that promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS006)
Look at how to retrieve seeds from strawberries and then plant them.
Re-create the strawberry from the book 'The little mouse, the red ripe strawberry and the hungry bear."
Outcome 3: Children have a strong sense of well being
Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators
5.2 - Children engage with a range of texts and gain meaning from these texts. #
5.3 - Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media. #
Outcome 1: Children have a strong sense of identity.
1.2 - Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency.
Strawberry Roll up https://choosingchia.com/homemade-strawberry-fruit-roll-ups/