Apple Week-Thursday

Since tomorrow is parent-teacher conferences, we celebrated Johnny Appleseed's birthday today.
We read several books about Johnny Appleseed. Then we made CARAMEL APPLES!!!

 

This was no surprise!

 

Apple Week-Wednesday

Today the focus was on the apple life cycle.  We started the day making applesauce in the crockpot. Students made "How to Make Applesauce books."

 I believe more children would have liked it if I had put it through the food processor and taken the chunks completely out.

The children were given pictures of the different stages of the life cycle and had to put themselves in the correct order.

Apple Week-Tuesday

It was good morning with a toasted English muffin covered in apple butter and a hot cup of apple cider!

We brainstormed adjectives that described the apple cider and recorded them on a web.

We also got to try five different apples:  Gala, Fuji, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, and Braeburn.

Let's see the results!

It was a surprise so many liked the tart Granny Smith.
We read several nonfiction books about apples and completed a KWL chart.

Apple Week-Monday

September was the start of our four day apple week.  We started on Monday trying apple chips.

We all received an apple to conduct our investigations. First, we learned what the circumference is and brainstormed how to measure it.  Surely a ruler would not work with the round apple. We decided yarn would be the most convenient when measuring the circumference. We used rulers and discussed inches.

Next, we estimated how many unifix cubes heavy one apple was.  Then we weighed the apple on a balance.

After, we estimated and then measured how many unifix cubes high our apples were.

 Last, we estimated the number of seeds our apple would have and counted them.  Of course, we enjoyed the apple afterwards.

We didn't forget a mini lesson on adjectives.  An apple can be described by many adjectives.