Apple Day 2011

To celebrate the end of our Apple Unit. We had our Apple Day on Friday, October 7. We had sooooo much fun!!

The day started with making Johnny Appleseed hats. Each child made a hat that resembled a cooking pot. Then they colored apples that read "HAPPY APPLE DAY" to glue on the hat.

Then I read them the story "The Little Red House with No Windows, No Doors, and a Star Inside".

We sang apple songs and I read some apple poetry.

Then we broke up into our Apple Stations where we got to ....

1. Bob for Apples
2. Make Apple Prints
3. Make a Beautiful Apple Craft
4. Pin the Apple on the Tree
5. Make Applejack Necklaces

At the end of the day, we got to taste some apple goodies! We had apple fritters, baked apple pies, apple butter, caramel apples, apple cake, and lots of fresh apples! Thanks to EVERYONE who brought the yummies!! :)

Not to mention that we made homemade applesauce in class.....

What a way to end a WONERFUL day!! :)

Apples, Apples, EVERYWHERE! :)

Last week, we did a unit on APPLES.

Here are some of our activities:

We learned about John Chapman. He walked through the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Pennsylvania to plant apple seeds. Because of his love of planting apple seeds, he was nicknamed Johnny Appleseed. He walked barefooted, with a cooking pot on his head. He was also a kind and gentle man who loved the animals.

We got to taste 3 different types of apples and graphed our favorite. GREEN wins again!!

We learned the parts of an apple (stem,leaf, core, flesh, skin, and seeds).

We learned the steps in the apple's life cycle.

We learned that there are many things made from apples.

We also made number sentences using apples.

To end our unit....we had an APPLE DAY on Friday!! (To be continued)

....and other readings.

Ms. Elkins LOVES to read to her Firsties! I especially love it when they get so into a story that they laugh and clap when the chapter's over!! The Fudgie series always seem to be a BIG HIT and this year is no exception!

I have been reading the book Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume. It's a story about a Fourth Grader named Peter who lives in New York City with his mom, dad, little brother (Fudge), and his pet turtle (Dribble), Fudge gets in so much mischief!!! We just can't believe all the trouble Fudge gets himself into! Here is the Wikipedia info on Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.

...and here's some info about the author, Judy Blume



There are 4 books in the Fudgie series: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, SuperFudge, Fudge-a-Mania, and Double Fudge. We just finished reading Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Next up-----SUPER FUDGE!!!! :)