This past week was all about apples…and exploring apples with our 5 senses. We used our 5 senses to explore APPLES!!! Just another reason to LOVE Fall. Who doesn’t love a ripe, delicious Honeycrisp covered in caramel?!?! One of the first things we did was a little apple taste test. We compared yellow, red, and green apples and picked our most favorite. My kids were SO excited to sample the flavors and I was REALLY surprised with the results!!!
It was a toss up between green and yellow, but in the end the sweet taste of the yellow apple won. After creating our pictograph and talking about the data, we used snap cubes to count out each amount and talk about how many more…how many less/fewer…etc. After creating our group pictograph, we transferred the data to a bar graph. It was a great to reinforce important vocabulary, practice making tallies, and work with bar graphs.
After tasting our apples, we used a few leftovers to EXPLORE and INVESTIGATE them with our five senses. First up, we brainstormed a list of words that DESCRIBED them. Let me just say that this wasn’t an easy task. Getting the kids to understand what it means to DESCRIBE took some elbow grease :) But once they got it, they couldn’t stop.
We also learned all about Johnny Appleseed and what made him a good citizen. We read nonfiction books about his life and even watched a movie about him. Students created a was/had/wore chart to help us organize our facts and then we wrote 3 sentences about his life.
We finished up the week with an apple investigation and making 2 yummy apple snacks.....Apple Smiles and Crockpot Applesauce. What a fun week!!!
Here we are showing off our Apple Smile.........
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