September 24, 2015

We made applesauce today!  We LOVED peeling, slicing, and coring our apples with Mrs. Bickel's apple peeler!  We we amazed at how long the apple peels were after we peeled them!  We sure did love eating the peels...or the "apple worms" as some of us called them!

Some of us thought the peels looked like "apple spaghetti" when Mrs. Bickel put them in this bowl!

This is what our applesauce looked like when we started cooking it.  We added water, brown sugar, and cinnamon to the crockpot after dumping in the apples.  Our classroom smelled delicious while our applesauce cooked!!!

This is what our applesauce looked like after it was finished cooking.  Only two students in our class didn't like the applesauce we made.  The rest of us LOVED it!!!  It tasted really sweet!

During math time today we sorted some apples.  We also talked about other ways we could sort them.  Some of our ideas included: big apples/little apples, apples with stickers/apples without stickers, apples with stems/apples without stems.  In this picture we sorted red apples, green apples, yellow apples, and other apples (Gala, Braeburn, etc.). We counted how many apples were in each of our groups, too!  

Some of us decided to throw a "surprise party" for Mrs. Bickel during choice time...and it's not even her real birthday!  We made her a birthday crown, drew her pictures, made some gifts for her out of paper, and then posed with her for this picture!  We were really sneaky and worked quietly in the art area so she didn't know what we were planning!!!