Apple Week

Apple week was a BLAST! We learned so much about apples, and got to taste some pretty good food which was made with apples.
We began the week reading this book about Johnny Appleseed. We learned that most of the apple trees that we have in our country were planted by him, and because his birthday was during our week long study of apples, our students made birthday cards for Johnny Appleseed.

 Later on in the week, our class gathered some data about apples and we recorded it on this chart. 8 students said they had swallowed an apple seed before! Wow!

 After brainstorming things we already knew about apples, we wrote an acrostic poem to show things we know. We worked as a class to write it, and it turned out great!

The students favorite part of Apple Week was Friday, when we had a taste test! Each of our five first grade teachers had a different apple food in her classroom, with a different activity planned for the students. The students rotated to each teacher's classroom to taste the food and complete the activity. Here's the list of foods/drinks that each teacher had prepared in their class:

Mrs. Cochran - Apple Slices

Mrs. Brown - Apple Chips

Mrs. Robertson - Applesauce

Mrs. Henderson - Apple Butter

Mrs. Newberry - Apple Cider

After drinking apple cider, the students played "Pin the Parts on the Apple". I chose various students one at a time, blindfolded them, spun them around, and they attempted to tape the part in the correct place!

At the end of the day, each student voted on which food (or drink) they liked the best, and (drumroll please....)

MRS. NEWBERRY'S APPLE CIDER WON! Woohoo!