Apples, Apples, and more Apples

Happy Birthday Johnny Appleseed!

Today we talked about apples, the different colors, sizes, and things you can do with apples. We did a fun science experience, we cut 4 apples. We put one in water, one in milk, one in lemon juice, and left one in nothing. We took guesses what would happen to the apples. Later we looked at the apples. The one left in nothing, turned brown. The one in water was almost all brown, the apple in milk starting to turn brown, but the apple in lemon juice was still white. The children were amazed. They thought for sure either the water or the milk would keep the apple from turning brown. I love to see how excited they were to see the changes in each apple.

We read a story about Johnny Chapman Appleseed, then Miss Janalynn cut open a apple with a hole in it and found a worm inside. It too was amazing! We painted a large apple and even suck our fingers in the holes to make funny little worms sticking out of our apples.

For singing time, we learned a new song "Do You Know the Apple Man", and then we played, "Find the Appleseed".

We "picked" our apples from the preschool tree. We counted the stickers on our apples, then chose a small treat for each sticker we had.

In the 4 year old class, we cut open a red and a green apple. We looked at each apple. They were the same on the inside, and different on the outside. We counted the seeds, and used the apple halves to stamp paint onto paper to make a picture of the inside and out side of an apple. Afterwards, we got to go outside and pick green and red apples from Miss Janalynn's apple trees, to take home.