Apples, Apples, Apples

 

 

We did a few apple activities duing September.  We read a couple of biographies about Johnny Appleseed.  We also learned that a biography is a book about someone's life. 

I found a new Johnny Appleseed activity on a kindergarten blog and knew I wanted to try it. We did a directed drawing of Johnny Appleseed.  We traced over these with "sharpies" after we talked about being REALLY careful when we use them because if we get it on our clothes, it will NEVER come out!

 

 

 

Then we "bubble cut" around Johnny and glued him to the foreground of our apple tree pictures.  These were another following directions art project, children cut the trunks, treetops, sun and grass out of rectangles and a square.

 

We also made our apple core art project and glued the Eat an Apple poem to the bottom.

 

Everyone either brought in an apple or chose an apple to use as theirs. We observed and charted the properties of the apples.  Then we made a big graph of the apple colors.

 

After graphing we discussed which column had the most and the least.  Then we began our Apple Investigation.  We weighed and measured our apples, recorded some of it's properties and labeled the parts of the apple.

 Working on our Investigation Recording Sheet.  Labeling the parts of the apple.

 Weighing apples with a balance scale.

 Measuring height with the unifix cubes.

 Counting weights as we add them to the balance scale.

 Kate gets it balanced.

 Alexandra and Liam show off their work!

 

Using the board to label the parts of the apple.

 

We taste tested red, green and yellow apples.  First we made our predictions of which color we liked the best. 

Then we tasted the apples and remade our chart.  We compared the results from the 2 charts.

 

Our last apple activity was making applesauce.  We had 3 moms come in and help to peel and chop the apples.  Then we cooked them in an electric skillet, added a little sugar and water.  We added a little cinnamon when we got ready to eat it.  As with any food fed to children we got some mixed and surprise reactions.

 Hey, she likes it!

 

hmmm, not so much!  but she did give it a try...that's all I ask!