September 26th is my absolute FAVORITE day in all of first grade! Why? Because it is Johnny Appleseed Day!
On this day in 1774 the legendary pioneer John Chapman was born. He became the infamous Johnny Appleseed after traveling west from Pennsylvania to Indiana planting appleseeds. John knew that the settlers would need food as they traveled west. So he prepared the way by planting apple trees. He would sell the trees to the settlers and would even give them for free if they didn't have the money. Now, almost 250 years later we remember this great community contributor by learning about his life and celebrating with an apple filled day!
We began first thing in the morning with making applesauce! Here is the recipe we used:
And this is what it looked like!
Once we had everything in the pot we turned it on and let it cook all day. The class smelled wonderful!
After our applesauce began to cook we began an apple infused morning of math! Here are a couple of the stations we did...
Here we are learning about adding 3 addends. We had red, green, and yellow "apples". We found that we can add them in any order and it is even easier if we can make 10 or find a double!
We continued practicing with three addends in the form of doubles plus one!
For the second portion on the morning and the start of our afternoon we did "Johnny Appleseed Stations". These were a lot of fun!
In one of the stations we got to read our latest Scholastic News magazine. It was all about apples!
In another station we got to make cooking pots for hats... Just like Johnny Appleseed!
We also got to make a book about Johnny Appleseed. That way we could read the story of Johnny Appleseed to our families.
Towards the end of the day we got to do something really special... Apple tasting! We sampled four different types of apples: Fuji, Honeycrisp, Granny Smith, and Red Delicious.
We got to see, touch, smell, and taste each one. We discovered that each one was a little different. Then everyone got to share which one they thought was the best. To my surprise the apple that got the most votes was the Granny Smith! These kids really like sour!
After we shared our favorites we then proceeded to write about it.
Finally, the BIG moment arrived! Our applesauce was ready! It tasted SO good. AND our class was blessed with 6 parents who joined us for applesauce! Yay parents! A special thanks to one of our dads, Mr. Clarke, who even helped to pass out the applesauce !
All in all it was a great day! Thank you again to those who joined us today. Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!
Love,
Mrs. Kawai
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