Apple Tasting

Today during snack the children taste tested apples.  They tried red ones, yellow ones, and green ones.  They used the following adjectives to describe the apples; crunchy, juicy, sweet, sour, crisp, and even yummy.  Once the taste test was finished the children graphed which color apple they thought tasted the best.  As you can see from our graph it was a tie between red and green apples.

During centers today the children made an apple tree with Miss Sue.  They cut out a trunk and leaves, glued them onto a piece of paper, and then made apples with paint and the eraser end of a pencil.  During a independent center the children used a balance and math manipulates to experiment with how heavy an apple is.

To end the day we played the "Rotten Apple" game.  The children sat in a circle and picked an apple from the bushel basket.  They then identified the color, shape, number, or letter that was on the apple.  If the children picked an apple with a worm on it everyone placed their cards back in the basket.