Applesauce

The grand finale of our 5 Senses week was using all of our senses to make 

Applesauce!

We learned what a recipe is, and that it must be followed in order for something to turn out correctly.

 Then it was time to do some work.

First we chopped the apples.

 Then we added water,

 chopped apples, 

 sugar,

 lemon,

 and cinnamon to the crackpot.  Then we stirred it up and let it cook!

Yummo!

 Everyone tried the applesauce.

Some loved it and ate it all up...others were not so sure.

 After eating our treat, we learned about sequencing, so to end the day we put the steps of making applesauce in order.

Using our Senses

This week we have been talking about "How we Learn", and now we know that we must use our 

5 Senses 

to learn about the world around us.

We discussed that not everyone has all 5 senses, so they must use the senses they do have to make up for the one they do not.

With the sense of touch came a lesson on describing words.

What words can we use to describe the way certain things feel?

This bean is very smooth.

 This pom pom ball is soft.

 Glitter feels rough.

 A jewel is pretty bumpy.

 Finally, we used the word squishy to describe a piece of foam.

 Next we explored our sense of smell.

Everyone got a chance to come up and see if they could guess what was in the cup by using their sense of smell ONLY.

We have some really good smellers in our class!

They smelled things like; ranch, chocolate, coffee, lemonade, soap, cinnamon, gum, markers, crayons, and many more.

 The final sense we explored was our sense of taste.

Since we are talking all about apples this month, what better thing to taste than apples!?

Each student tried a bite of a red, green, and yellow apple.  

Then we took tasting notes...

Was it yummy, yucky, sweet, or sour?

Did you like it?

 Then we each got a turn to chart which color apple we liked the best.

 Our class was pretty split, but overall we like red apples the best!

Sweet to the Core!

Happy September!

All month long we will be doing fun apple themed activities to go along with our lessons.

This week we read the book, "Ten Apples Up on Top".

Then we had to search through some letters to pick the correct ones that make up our names.

Once we found all of our letters, we stacked them on top of our picture.

Then we counted to see how many apples we had on top!

Next we made apple sun catchers for the window.

Finally, on Friday we got to eat our first apple snack.

Apple Nachos!

Some of us gobbled them right up!

Others enjoyed the yummy toppings.

Liza like to lick off the chocolate:).

We will be learning about our senses next week, so this was a great way to start exploring our sense of taste.  Everyone's' is different and unique!