Apples at school

For the month of September, my preschoolers studied around the theme of "Apples & Birds". This is a quick recap of the preschool goodies that Em & B enjoyed:

Counting & recording Appleseed results,

Apple Math: Observing Apples, measuring apples, and stamping with apples,

Determining which color apple we like best & using our scissor skills to create apple projects,

Comparing Red, Yellow & Green apples-with a little taste testing, and again tracking our results.

What apple tree is complete without a few ANGRY BIRDS! :) So I created a shape/following directions lesson that resulted in the popular game characters. They were definitely a fan favorite!

We read the book "Ten Apples Up on Top"....

(Just had to include this random one-with absolutely NOTHING to do with apples because he's too darn cute!)

Then finally the kids earned their field trip to the U-pick orchard in Yakima. We've been going there for a couple years now. The owner is SO nice. He's the one Mike chatted with a few years ago when we picked Raspberries?????

They all had a blast running through the orchard and picking apples to their hearts content. I was so busy taking picts that I forgot to put a limit on the amount of apples we needed! When I finally figured that out-I had LITERALLY 120 lbs of apples that were in buckets & wagons and obviously could NOT go back on the trees! oops.....

Oh well-we definitely made some great memories in the process. A successful first field trip of the year.
















The kids did so good bagging up all the apples to take back to school. They were even paid multiple compliments on their behavior/manners by people we don't even know! I was so proud of them!


Back at school on the last day of the month-we wrapped up the Apple theme with an Apple EXTRAVAGANZA!

We made homemade Applepie Sauce...

And homemade Apple Juice too! It was seriously yummy!

The kids snacked on chilled apple slices with Fluffer Nutter dip they helped make (gone in seconds flat! that stuff is divine!)

Bryce loved shoving apples into the juicer and seeing immediate results! The boys all got a kick out of that!


The water table came in handy as a place to "wash" apples-or for the boys to soak each other by purposely DROPPING their apples into the water....boys will be boys. At least they were having fun-nothing was harmed and that is their memory of the day :) It's just water. Some battles are not necessary or worth fighting-no, I'm not your average teacher. But that's how I roll.

What could be more fun for boys than slimy, squishy, bashing of cooked apples! :)

A mouth full of YUMMERS!

Ayden's mom signed up to help with the stations at school today...it was a blast!

We've had a great month celebrating Johnny Appleseed. 
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