Apple Orchard

We had a great time on our field trip!

Thanks to our parents and grandparents who joined us!

The rain held off and we had a great morning...

Learning about apples...bees must pollinate each apple blossom at least 4 times or the apple may not fully form correctly!

After our apple cider and apple donuts we...

Fed the goats...

Pet a bunny...

Picked a pumpkin and an apple!

Put feed on the conveyer belt...

And had a great time going down the slide and jumping in the hay!

In the afternoon we created a class book about our trip which is displayed in the hallway!

Walk-a-thon

Enjoy the pictures from our day!

 

 

Thank you, Mrs. VanDyke, for all your hard work putting this event together!  The kids had so much fun!!

We Cooked Applesauce!

Today was filled with excitement as we made applesauce!

 

We split the class into two groups.  One group made applesauce first, the other did apple math explorations!

 

Cooking:

  We used our five senses to cook!  The cinnamon smell was a favorite!

 

Apple Math Explorations:

Using a balance pan to find out how many bears it takes to weigh the same as an apple

Finding out how many cubes fit around their apple

 

Prediction:  Does an apple sink or float

Yum! Yum! Yum!

 

Book making during writing time

Today was our first day organizing our writing into books!  First, we added "reread my writing" to our anchor chart.  

Then, I modeled how to reread our pages and group together all the pages with the same topic. In the picture above, I modeled how to find all the playground pages and group them together.  Then the class helped me find all of pages that were about the lake and group them together.  After conferencing with a teacher, the students used staplers to keep their books together.  

We are off to a great start! We are looking forward to many more days of making books!