Apple Day!!!

We used an apple slicer!
It separated the apple from the core.

We had to push down really hard.
 Mrs. Lopez had to help.

  It looked really cool!

The slices went into the slow cooker.

Then we sprinkled on brown sugar
 and the spices with a splash of water!

We learned about contractions while it cooked.

We made them into headbands!

We read a recipe and
answered questions about it. 

We also made apple kids!

We wrote about what we did.

By late afternoon they were cooked and the room smelled great!

We used the food mill to grind up the apples.

Hooray, Friday was Apple Day!!

Turning the crank was hard work!

We had a fun, apple filled day today!  We started making cute apple kids! Then we started making our applesauce with all the apples everyone brought in!  We took turns cutting them up with a slicer and popped them into the crockpot to slowly cook all day long.  

We also made apple headbands decorated with contractions.  We answered questions about an apple recipe similar to the one we followed and used our answers as a starting off place for our writing today.  

When we returned from lunch, the room was beginning to smell delicious.  During math we played apple themed addition games.  Later we learned about Johnny Appleseed on bookflix and on Brainpop Jr. 

The final step of the applesauce process was to run the cooked apples through a Foley food mill.  Each student had a turn to turn the crank.  Then it was time to taste test!!  Most of the class really liked it and some had seconds!  All in all it was a beautiful fall day and we had a ball learning and celebrating apples and Johnny Appleseed.

Yummy!

Thank you for sending  in the apples!!