Johnny Appleseed's Birthday

Last week Wednesday was Johnny Appleseed's birthday! The kindergarten team at our school decided to have an apple themed week.  We learned all about Johnny Appleseed, the parts of an apple, taste tested apples and much more.  My inspiration for many of these activities came from my teaching partner and of course, Pinterest.com! We had a great week and so many memories were made. Thank you to all the mom's who volunteered Thursday afternoon during our apple centers.  You made our Johnny Appleseed centers a  huge success!

We began our week by learning about the parts of an apple and the life cycle of an apple.

At our first apple center the students measured their apple with blocks, wrote the color, and made an apple  print of their apple using paint.

Creating a sentence using popcorn words.

These are hanging above our lockers. Aren't they awesome!?

At the second center, the students taste-tested green, yellow and red apples.  They had to pick their favorite and graph their groups results.

Tasting the apples and using their senses to notice differences and similarities between the apples.

At the third center, the students created a book about apples.  They had to count and color the correct amount of apples in each basket.

At the fourth center, the students made Johnny Appleseed hats. Johnny Appleseed wore a pot on his head so our hats looked like pots. They were so cute on the kids. I wish I would have taken more pictures.

 At the fifth center, students cut out apples of different sizes and sorted them into 3 categories (small,medium, large).  When they finished they were able to play a game where they rolled dice, counted the number of dots on the dice and colored the apple with that same number. They really liked this game!