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December 9, 2017

What to teach at home? Celebrate World Science Day!

So as part of a homeschooling-network-building workshop in our area of Saudi Arabia – I had this vision for a full on Science Workshop! We had a range of children from reception to Year 6 who signed up for our workshop. So a plan was drawn up, key  friends, helpers and supporters sought out and the resources put together! Today was World Science Day! (for us of course).  The aim of the day was to show children how Science is simply everywhere and how much fun it is experimenting and discovering! We had an absolute blast and I’m sure the mamas involved enjoyed it as much as the children. So to inspire our readers to try something similar on a smaller scale at home, here’s what we did:

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We set up 3 rooms in my home: The Biology Room, The Chemistry Room and The Physics Room (You could easily set up 3 tables at home on a smaller scale or even work over a period of 3 days or 3 weeks or even months – a little at a time). The children were split into 3 groups and rotated around each room doing activities generally catered to their level and ability – although they enjoyed all the activities set out. So a tip here would be to use differentiation with your own children of different ages by the follow up activity and let them learn and discover together as a group!

Here are the activities and experiments we did in each area of Science – pick and choose what works for you and celebrate World Science Day too!

The Biology Room!

Planting seeds (All Primary Ages – 4-11)

A lovely activity that all ages can do – in our case we were sprouting wheat grains. Follow up activities include making up a diary of changes children notice with the pot each day. This ensures they take care of the seeds – but watering (spraying some water) the pot each day. They should sprout within a few days!

How Plants Transport Water (Primary ages 4-8)

This is always a favourite in our house. All you need is white flowers, food colouring, clear cups and water! Add a few drops of food colouring to the the cups already half-filled with water. Snip your flower stems at an angle and put inside the water. We followed up by drawing the flower in a coloured water and predicting what may happen. After a few hours the petals started to show a bit of colour!

Living Things and Life-Cycles (Primary ages 4-11)

World Science Day can also be celebrated by taking a trip to a Zoo or farm. Luckily for us we were able to bring the animals to us! So we had 2 quails and a special spiny-tailed Lizard bought in by one of our Homeschooling mamas! It was lovely for the children to learn about the lifecycle of a quail and its habitats. What a great experience! Follow up activities included drawing and labelling the quail for the younger ages and thinking about habitats and food chain for the older kids.

How to make compost! (Primary Ages 8- 11)

This is a brilliant activity for this age group as they learn about rotting food. It could also work as something you decide to do at home in the garden for a while. We asked all the children to save some fruit skin or peel, paper, cardboard, plant leaves, old flowers for a few days before World Science Day. The children were able to see how the food rotted at home. Today, the older children got a taste of how to actually make compost – using layers of green (fruit peel, skin, and plants) and brown (newspaper, cardboard etc). Definitely one to try at home as a family!

Understanding how our Digestive System works! (Primary Ages 8-11)

A fantastic practical way of helping children understand how food is broken down in our body. Use wooden castanets (or a thick piece of cardboard) to break down the bread – aim to break it into small pieces – you could even add a drop of water as saliva. Then let that broken down food fall through a cardboard kitchen roll representing the esophagus or food pipe. Squeeze the roll as it falls through into a sip lock bag representing the stomach. Add a little warm water and seal the bag. Children can take turns breaking down the broken down bread further in the sealed bag. Next use a long balloon, attach a funnel to it and pour in the liquid from the ‘stomach’ into the long balloon representing the small intestine. Prick holes in it with a needle or pin and allow children to squeeze the balloon to let out the liquid. Explain how this represents the nutrients entering our body to give us energy. The final part is snip the bottom of the balloon and explain that the waste product of the food comes out through the large intestine when we go to the toilet! 

The Chemistry Room!

A quick way of inflating a balloon (Primary Ages 4-11)

We put a few table spoons of vinegar in the bottle. We used a funnel to put some Baking Soda in to the balloon. Attached the balloon onto the bottle ensuring the baking soda didn’t fall in. Finally lifted up the balloon to allow the baking soda to fall and react with the vinegar in the bottle. Carbon dioxide was released from the chemical reaction which helped to inflate a balloon! A great way to introduce chemical reactions. 

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Creating a cloud in a jar (Primary Ages 7-11)

This lovely activity is perfectly linked to clouds, weather and the water cycle. We followed the steps here to create a cloud in a jar using a clear glass jar, warm water, food colouring, hairspray and ice. Click here to find out what to do.

Rainbow Colour Mixing (Primary Ages 4-8)

This wonderful activity was such a joy to watch! Pour a small amount of water into a shallow plate. Add drops of food colouring. Dip a q-tip into the fairy liquid and dab into the milk – watch what happens!

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Colour Mixing Explosions (Primary Age 4-6)

This experiment is as easy as ever. All you need is a lot of baking soda to put into a shallow tray like below. Put some vinegar into 3 different cups. Add in blue, red and yellow food colouring. Make predictions with the children – what will happen if they mix red and yellow etc and let them discover it  for themselves! A fun and easy way to teach secondary colours.

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Making Clean Water – Filtration Experiment! (Primary Age 8 -11)

Using funnels and different filters (cotton fabric, net fabric and coffee filter paper), children experiment to see which is the best filter. Pour in dirty water (in our case water mixed with sand) – Great follow up activity of writing up the experiment, predicting, writing results and coming to a final conclusion.

The Erupting Volcano (Primary Ages 5- 11)

Who wouldn’t want to make this erupting volcano? Quite simply, you need a plastic cup and plate, a cone shaped volcano, vinegar and red food colouring, a little fairy liquid and some baking soda! This time you add the food colouring to the some water in the cup, add the washing up liquid, put over the cone and pour in baking soda until you see it erupting. You may want to use a smaller cup or increase the quantity of vinegar for better results!

Cornflour Slime (Primary Ages 4-7)

A fab sensory activity and experiment looking at the non-newtonian corn flour slime, mixing water and cornflour plus a little food colouring. See the difference in texture as you pick the slime and dab it while in the bowl.

Dissolving Experiment (Primary Ages 7-11)

A simple experiment, predicting and finding out what happens when we dissolve substances in hot and cold water. Do they dissolve or not. We used salt, sand, coffee and flour.

The Physics Room!

Electrical circuits and conductors of electricity (Primary Ages 7-11)

This was the perfect experiment for this age group as they looked at what completed an electrical circuit and what made a good conductor of electricity, testing objects such as a plastic ruler, a metal spoon and a scissors with plastic handles. Follow up work included writing up a prediction and then jotting down their results and what they found out about electricity.

Magnetic and Non-magnetic (Primary Ages 4-7)

Children were given a bag of objects to sort whether they were magnetic of non-magnetic. They could predict before and then write up or draw the results. Ask them what they noticed about the objects that were magnetic.

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Forces – making Catapults (Primary Ages 8-11)

A fantastic practical way of learning about forces by making a catapult using just wooden lolly sticks and elastic bands. Click here for more instructions on how to make your own catapult!

All About Space: Primary Ages (4-11)

There is so much to cover in the topic of space and each area can be catered towards the different age group of children. Our 4-6 year olds looked at light and dark and created shadows, learning about sunlight as well. Our 7-8 year olds learnt about the phases of the moon and night and day, whilst our 9-11 yr olds learnt about how we have seasons. We also gave each group an opportunity to find out their own facts about space encourage an independent way of investigating facts in Science.

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For this particular topic, we also held a poster competition on the mention of space related verses in the Qur’an. This could also be a fab follow up activity linking in religion as well!

And that was all our World Science Day intensive session today  – but as it was well planned, with a good number of adults on board, it was a success! A big THANK-YOU to all those who helped and took part! Hoping you will be tempted to try this at home too 🙂

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by Top 10 Homeschooling Tips from 2017 – mamateachesme on January 1, 2018

[…] I can successfully run other workshops alongside homeschooling my girls.  Our celebration of  World Science Day and  even World Book Day in our monthly Literacy Workshops are good examples of how well […]

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by bushrazblogs on January 1, 2018

wow, Mashaallah everything looks pretty amazing and very creative… 🙂

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by Zainab Dokrat on January 1, 2018

Everything looks so cute and like so much fun! I think it’s so important and awesome to get children involved with the sciences at a young age. (www.spicyfusionkitchen.com and http://www.beautywithzainy.com)

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by Hafsa on January 1, 2018

Ameen! Thank you!

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by Lilac Prose on January 1, 2018

These are such brilliant ideas to kindle interest and instill love for science in children. Keep up the good work!

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by Hafsa on January 1, 2018

Thank you!

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by And then she said - Iman Said on January 1, 2018

This is so thorough mashaAllah – you’ve put so much thought into it – may your children always benefit from your efforts inshaAllah!

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by Umme Hafsa on January 1, 2018

Sooo many awesome and creative ideas mashaAllah. Love that it’s listed in once place too – instead of having to go through heaps of links for activity ideas, it’s all in one place 🙂

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by Hafsa on January 1, 2018

wasalaam – thank you for your comment. Yes it was a really nice day! 🙂

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by Hafsa on January 1, 2018

Ah thank you – much love!

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by Farhana Sharmeen on January 1, 2018

Salam. It looks like you put a lot of thoughts and efforts into this event. We are in our 10th year of homeschooling and always love to find another homeschooler. Masha Allah.

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by AYEINA on January 1, 2018

Ma shaa Allah!! So beneficial and creative way to celebrate! Keep it up 😊

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by Hafsa on January 1, 2018

Yes was fun! And thank you!

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by Hafsa on January 1, 2018

Thank you! 🙂

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by mymodernhejab on January 1, 2018

This is amazing!! So creative and fun! A great way to get the kids excited about science!

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by ouramanahsourfutures on January 1, 2018

You must have had so much fun doing this. What a fantastic bunch of Mummies.

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The girls used the Picture This app (swipe for more) to label the pictures of the plants and flowers we took photos of (thanks @homeschoolingmands for your pics too) 
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Since the girls have become wildlife watchers with their new books - they’ve spotted a bunch of birds and insects in the garden and are determined to carry on (all because I gave them wildlife watcher badges from @thewildlifetrusts 😄) 
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*Food Forever Exhibition at Kew Gardens* . At our *Food Forever Exhibition at Kew Gardens*
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At our recent visit to Kew Gardens we were fortunate to see the wonderful yet eye opening recycled trolls sculptures highlighting eating together, food waste and eating a more plant based diet - swipe to read more. It certainly inspired us to be more mindful about food waste - Art like this speaks volumes creates the impact and reminder we need to make the small changes we can! 
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The Forever Food Exhibition at @kewgardens is definitely worth the visit. For us, it was a great follow up to our food topic (which finally came to an end after 3 weeks of cooking with the kids full on 😅), thinking about food waste was huge. Over the years the girls and I have had discussions about eating all the barakah on our plates, giving left overs to the birds etc. We are yet to get into composting though! Starting mid June we have finally started our #30dayswildchallenge with @thewildlifetrusts - although I think we’ll be extending our nature studies all the way through summer ☀️ iA
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Swipe to read some of what we saw at the exhibition- the lab grown meat was definitely eye opening and makes you think lots of about the guidance we get in our Islamic Faith about what’s halal and tayyib (permissible and pure/ organic) 
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Are you thinking about recycling and food waste? How are you tackling it in your homes? Please share below to encourage us all - thanks 💚 
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Recipe Writing ✍️ . So whilst making spaghett Recipe Writing ✍️ 
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So whilst making spaghetti 🍝 and creating the video for the reel, we also had some recipe writing going on! It was a lot of work and spaghetti making felt like a chore all of a sudden! 🙈
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The kitchen, which was once my place to be away with my thoughts, listen to lectures and enjoy some alone time, was taken over by the kids- it doesn’t help that isn’t so big either- but somehow we managed it in the end alhamdulillah 😅
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There was however an interesting discussion on the instructions for recipe writing and why certain instructions are said a certain way and of course the detail you need to understand what to do in each process. At times it became frustrating for the eldest too - I’d recommend doing this a day later (which is how I’ve written it up in the plan - and this is why I only write up the topic plans and resources AFTER we’ve completed it so I can work around what actually worked and what we should have done instead for ease!) 
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The girls are absolutely obsessed with Lego and of course don’t remember their first trip to Legoland when they were both under 5 so they were super excited to be finally going again!
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Although they were overwhelmed by the new VR ride Mythica (they had the eyes closed throughout the ride 😅) they haven’t stopped talking about the mythical fantasy beasts and animals that we saw! 
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They conquered their fears of the pirate ship and were totally shocked with how wet they got on the log flume 😂 (worse than Thorpe Park) lots of memories and fun alhamdulillah. The park closed at 4pm, however everyone spent another hour at the Legoland gift shop deciding what to buy. 
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Definitely worth going, look out for their early booking offers so you’re paying £34 per ticket instead of £64 each - swipe to see some of our fave snaps 📷 
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Our food topic has been full of practical learning Our food topic has been full of practical learning and so in order for things to work well we needed to plan out our big fun practical days like our Outdoor Cooking Experience 🍗 
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Swipe to see what how we planned it all - resource pack and planning coming soon iA 😅
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We LOVED looking through this book to look back at We LOVED looking through this book to look back at some of the origins of our favourite foods. Whilst doing so the girls got fixated on the cacao pod and so began our journey to try making chocolate from bean to bar - more on that soon! 
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Quite a thorough book - swipe to see more of the inside - the book covers lots of staple foods, their origins, their history and how they’ve developed through cultures and modernity- a handy book if you plan to do this topic! 
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SAVE this post and look out for our chocolate making post coming really soon iA 
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☀️ Things that make me happy ☀️ Tagged b ☀️ Things that make me happy ☀️ 

Tagged by my friend @asma_scribendi I’m sharing #littlethingsthatmakemehappy 😃 (other than time with friends and family) here’s my list: 

🌟 flowers 💐 love receiving flowers as much as I like sending them
🌟 travelling ✈️ 🛥 🚂 all kinds
🌟 trying new foods 
🌟 nature of all kinds - from 🌳 to 🏖 to 🏜 to 🏔 
🌟 Art 🖼 and creativity
🌟 walking / Hiking 
🌟 books 
🌟 being out in the sunshine 
🌟 perfume and scents and oud 
🌟 love iced coffee 
🌟 sunsets 
🌟 meeting new people 😊
🌟 reciting Quran out loud
🌟 coming back home to a tidy house 
🌟 organised kitchen and drawers 😅
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Alhamdulillah enjoyed writing that and feel quite blessed and grateful for the opportunities and blessings from Allah. Especially after my realisation that I need to schedule more me time in the month! Truly Allah knows what makes us happy and subhanAllah he paves the way for us in the most amazing of ways! 
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📸 snaps are from my day out without the kids on the weekend 
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I’m tagging @nurturing.learners @ourlivinghomeschool @rainbows_of_learning next! 
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Making sushi 🍣 🍱 . Another double firsts fo Making sushi 🍣 🍱 
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Another double firsts for the girls - making sushi and trying it - they literally gave the taste test 1/10 😂🙈 they are not fans of sushi at all ( I’m the fan) but they enjoyed the process of making it, they were exposed to new methods, new tastes and smells. 
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I, on the other hand am super happy I can now make my own home made sushi and experiment with my niece who actually LOVES sushi like me 😄 ( I did say our homeschool was about my interests too didn’t I 😅) I LOVED the taste test and can’t wait to make some more. All ingredients were found on Amazon - here’s what you’ll need: 
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🍣 bamboo mat (for rolling) 
🍣 white/brown sushi rice 
🍣 nori (roasted seaweed sheets) 
🍣 veg/fish of choice for filling 
🍣 pickled ginger 
🍣 wasabi (optional) 
🍣 soy sauce 
🍣 rice vinegar (I just used apple cider vinegar)
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Are you a sushi fan? Have you tried making your own? It’s actually not has difficult as it looks 🍣 
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A lot of the time our homeschool is about my learn A lot of the time our homeschool is about my learning as much as the kids. It’s my curiosity to see or do as much as theirs. So comes out my real excitement (like a big kid 😅) and theirs too. 
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Many decades ago I remember learning and later teaching fair trade and chocolate and looking a little at how chocolate was made and always thought it would be fascinating to make it from scratch with an actual cacao pod! From something we eat so regularly why have we barely accessed the fruit, the beans, the pod?!
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So spent some time online searching for a fresh cacao pod within a reasonable price (this was under £20) this one’s from the Caribbean and bought on eBay 😅 
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The girls’s reaction to the cacao fruit was priceless - little one ran out of the room thinking she was expected to eat it 😂 we did taste the fruit - it’s a little like lychee and tastes really good - a little sour and sweet too. We had a little read of cacao pods in our new book too - Swipe to see pics 📸 
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We will be back to share more on the chocolate soon - in the mean time we still have fresh home made yogurt to make, sushi to roll and an experience of cooking outdoors - all quite flexible but need the good weather for the latter experience ☀️
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Have you attempted to make chocolate at home? Do you ensure your homeschool is full of ways for you to learn and be curious too?  I was telling the girls isn’t it fascinating to have been able to invent chocolate 🍫 
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One of our fave features of homeschooling is the l One of our fave features of homeschooling is the lifestyle we create that works for us. It’s in our time, great weather, making memories and connections and of course flexibility etc.
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We love taking advantage of the weekdays for our days out to avoid the rush! The girls had their first proper dose of rock climbing today Alhamdulillah-  loved their enthusiasm to try something new.  Swipe to see the snaps 📸 
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We talk a lot about trying something new - whether it’s a new challenge or trying new foods. There are always different emotions attached - fear, nervousness, even anxiety due to a judgement or a perception that was made. Much of the time we realise we feel that way because it’s different and an unknown. 
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The lesson is really for us all - if we can look past our thoughts and have faith in ourselves to overcome the challenges by allowing ourselves to decide whether it’s for us or not with grace. If we can tell ourselves “we can” we have more opportunities in actually giving it a try!
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Have you ever come across a time you’ve had to encourage your child to see past a judgement they made through fear or anxiousness - or a challenge they find overwhelming? How have you consoled them? Would love to hear more
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🍍 EXOTIC FRUIT DAY 🍍 . The girls and I plan 🍍 EXOTIC FRUIT DAY 🍍 
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The girls and I planned an Exotic Fruit Day yesterday. We went out to our local markets in search of fruits we have never tried before! We wanted to guess how they’d look on the inside, how they would taste and more. 
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The girls were intrigued by the dragon fruit, papaya, passion fruit, apricot, golden kiwi, grapefruit and fig. They didn’t like the look of the custard apple at all - inside or out 🙈
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It was a fantastic way to get the girls to try new fruits and marvel at Allahs magnificent creation subhanAllah. They learnt about taste buds and the tongue. Hands on practical learning - super easy and fun 🤩 
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So share with us- which of these fruits do you like the most and which are you yet to try? Comment below 👇 we’d love to know 😊
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