I'm Baaaaaack!! With a Little Johnny Appleseed Freebie :)

Well Holy Guacamole it has been a long time!! I've been pretty busy for the past few years between getting married, Mr. Hubs and I buying AND renovating our first house. We had NO idea just how much would go into fixing up our home-- the shows on the DIY channel and HGTV make it look like a piece of cake! While the projects may not have been difficult, they sure were time consuming! 

Anyway, I am GLAD to be back :)

The past two weeks we have been learning all about apples. Our apple life cycle, the star inside the apple, and tasting many apple treats. Many of my little 18 kinder kiddos had never had apple chips and apple cider before, so they were pleasantly surprised by the yummy taste! We used this little apple tasting data sheet throughout the week while we tasted our delicious treats and finished the week with homemade applesauce-- my fave :)

This week we will begin our focus on Johnny Appleseed, just in time for his birthday celebration on September 26th. Here is a little fun Johnny Appleseed freebie if you are still planning your lessons for the week :)

Click here to download this little freebie.

I hope ya'll have a great week and enjoy this beautiful fall weather!!

Class Applesauce and A Peek At The Week Ahead...

Well we finally got around to making our applesauce and oh my word was it delicious!! I wish I had taken more pictures but I was more focused on keeping my little kinders' fingers away from the sharp apple peeler and the hot crockpot... I figured ya'll would understand ;)

Before we made our class applesauce, we brought all the apples we brought in as a class to the carpet and graphed them by color to see which one we had the most of. I will let ya'll determine below which color won:

 

We had so many red ones that we ran our of room on our graph and had to make two rows of red. Then we went through all of our steps that I outlined in this previous post and I was finally able to take a picture of how yummy it looked:

 

Mmmmm... look at all that brown sugar in there!!

So this past week we were able to do a lot of work with apples, but we have not even made a teeny tiny dent into our apple unit yet! This week I found so many adorable ideas on pinterest that I have just been dying to try and this upcoming week will be perfect for them!! Here are some of the fun things we will be doing this week:

 

These two Johnny Appleseed ideas were way too cute to pass up. I love the cuteness of the Johnny Appleseed circle chart where they list facts they know about Johnny Appleseed. I have done things like this in the past but I have never made my charts as adorable as some of these ladies on pinterest!! They make me feel like I need to bring my "A" game when it comes to cuteness in the classroom. I also love the second craft where they write the sight word "I" (which is our first sight word in our reading series- making this THAT much more applicable) and their name.

 

I thought this little poem with the apple star stamping looked like fun too. I am considering purchasing an apple unit from TPT but there are sooooo many to choose from. Have any of ya'll purchased an apple TPT unit?? If so, would you recommend it and which one was it?? 

I hope you're all having a great weekend!!