OOH.... Apple week activities! We have had a lot of fun with apple week in the past. Let's do a walk down memory lane, shall we?
I always give them a folder filled with the pages that we'll use for the week. Most of the activities come from my Hands-On Learning with Apples pack. That way, I'm not constantly passing out papers and they can all go home at once.
Of course, we have to taste test apples and chart our favorite. It's a great time to talk about the data, too.
One of our favorite activities is to do AppleJacks Math, which is in THIS FREE file.
I also love using Scholastic News. I actually keep all of my Scholastic News articles and don't send them home. That way if the next year, they don't have one that fits my theme for the week, then I still have left over from previous years.
We do a lot of hands on activities too, during our Apple Day- although these days, I'm not sure how much people are able to do with volunteers right now. But these definitely doable as a whole group activity, I've done it before.
and let's not forget....homemade applesauce in crockpot. Which makes the room smelly YUMMY
You can find a lot of these apple activities HERE.
Well, I'm slightly behind on showing you what we did for our Apple Week. I know I showed you my visual plans {HERE} but I never came back to show you our week.
So, consider this pho-tog dump of pictures (yes, there are a ton!)
First, I copied off all the pages from my Hands-On Apple Unit that I wanted in our book this year and had a volunteer make all the books. Then I sent home the donation and volunteer letter.
Throughout the week, we did apple-themed activities
We read a lot about Apples and Johnny Appleseed that week. We worked in our Scholastic News labeling the different parts of non-fiction.
Here are some of the books we read that week.
After we read one of the Apple-themed books, we wrote about what we do if we had a basket full of apples, and used A Cupcake for the Teacher's Writing.
They turned out super cute! And I seriously have some awesome artists in my room!
We did the parts of an apple - I did a directed drawing to show them how to draw it. I really like to see their creativity, so I don't give a lot of templates when it comes to drawings.
After they did the drawing and labeling correctly, then they got to do the craft.
I have to tell you. One of the best directed drawings is Teacher Bits and Bobs's Directed Drawing of Johnny Appleseed. Almost every single one of my kids' drawings came out AWESOME because of her! You can download her freebie {HERE}.
Then, we had a little taste testing of the different color apples and graphed the response.
and wrote about the data.
MATH CENTERS
So our math centers that week, were fun-filled apple-themed centers.
Apple Stamping, then they did some math on the seeds on the inside.
and they made their Johnny Appleseed Hat...
After lunch, it was time for MORE taste testing! I took all the apples home that were donated and made apple butter and cut up the apples for the applesauce. And I made the biscuits. I won't tell you that I actually made the apple butter TWO days before (being on the ball!) but my husband didn't turn off the crock-pot during the day and left it on "warm" all day and then it burnt the apple butter. UGH. Round 2.
It all worked out though... we had apple butter and biscuits, we made the applesauce that morning in class after we wrote out the recipe, apple slices, apple chip, and apple cider.
I had them cast their vote on apple sticky notes on giant apple die-cuts.
Then, of course we graphed the results in our books.
AND, to make our recipe books (I always do these separate from the actual book), I used First Grade Blue Skies' SO CUTE apple craft (the girls has a knack for crafts!)
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