Celebrate strawberries with your students by making mobiles they can take home to hang. Help them cut big strawberry shapes from red construction paper and the strawberry tops from green construction paper. Use a glue stick to put the strawberry together and punch a hole in the top. Show them how to make small dots with glue and sprinkle glitter on to make seeds. Now string yarn through the hole and the mobile is ready to hang.
Save a peach pit for each student in your class, and they can turn them into strawberries. Boil the pits in water for a few minutes to help clean all remnants of peach away. Let them dry thoroughly before bringing them to class. Give each student a pit and some red paint and let them color the pits red. The lines in the pit give the berry texture, like seeds do for a real strawberry. Help them cut out a green felt strawberry top to glue to the pit.
If you live in an area where strawberries are grown fresh, set up a tour for your class. If the season is right, students may be able to pick their own snack during the tour. They'll get information about how strawberries are grown and get to see in its natural state a food they're used to buying in the grocery store.
Strawberries are not all the same. Small or wild strawberries tend to be sweeter and have a more intense flavor, while the big strawberries available in grocery stores are more mildly flavored. Get your hands on some of each and set up a taste test. Have your student taste different varieties or sizes of berries and compare the flavors. The strawberry tasting can be expanded to include juice, jam and even bread baked with strawberries inside.