Apples

The last two weeks of September thru the first week of October (3 weeks total) we spent studying apples.  Some things we did were:

• Studied the life cycle of an apple.
• Studied what the apple tree looks like in the different seasons.
• Studied what the different parts of the apple are called.
• We did an apple investigation and made a book out of it.  In it we recorded what color our apple was, if our apple had a stem or not, we measured and recorded the circumference of the apple, weighed our apple and counted how many seeds our apple had.  Each child had there own apple for this investigation.
• At the end of our investigation we took our apples and made applesauce.  

  

  Isaiah cutting apples

  

  Rebekah cutting apples

          

  

  Apples ready to be cooked

  
  

  

  Isaiah smelling the cooked applesauce

  
  

  

  Homemade applesauce

  We also read the book "10 Apples On Top".  We tried to balance as many apples as we could on top.

  Rachel could balance one.

  
  

  

  Rebekah can balance one also.

  
  

  

  Isaiah figured out how to balance two.

  
  We then put the numbers 1-10 in order by putting 10 apples on top of hats.  This project took a couple of days because it was a lot of cutting. We also did several art projects as well including making an apple puppet (and then they put on a puppet show) and practicing weaving.
 

Rachel weaving

Isaiah weaving

Rebekah weaving

Rachel putting on an apple puppet show.

  

One of the last things we did was make an apple pie (our first ever).  Here are a few pictures of us making the pie.

Rachel peeling apples

Rebekah peeling apples.  She loved that she could do this just like the big kids.

Almost ready to go in the oven

Rachel playing with the extra pie crust

So excited!

Ready to bake!

Done!

After a day a baking the apple pie we had an apple taste test after dinner.  We tasted an apple, a dried apple, apple juice, our homemade applesauce (there was a little left from when we ate it) and the apple pie.  We did a graph to see what we liked best.  The apple pie won!  In case you are wondering the only thing that did not get a lot of votes was the dried apple, which is surprising because the kids love banana chips and dried apricots. 




Apple tasting






Rebekah tasting all the different apple products