Apples, apples, apples!

The Kindergarten class has been enjoying the season of apple harvesting! Their adventure began last week with a trip to the nearby field to pick wild apples. The students found enough apples to fill an entire shopping bag! 

The students brought them back to the classroom where they washed and cut them with plastic knives. These apples were then put into a slow cooker for several hours to make apple sauce. The children were delighted by their home-made applesauce which they ate at snack time in the classroom.

  

The next day Mrs. Gatti brought in several different types of apples and the students all had the chance to try them all. Red & Yellow Delicious, Fuji, Gala, Honey Crisp, Granny Smith, Paula Red, MacIntosh, each student had their own favourite by the end of the tasting! 

They also weighed them to see which weighed the most - Honeycrisp won and Paula Red was the lightest!

Keeping with the apple theme, Mrs. Gatti brought a juice processor to school and the students made their own apple juice. Each student washed their hands before picking 4 or 5 slices of apples to put into the machine. 



The students squealed with laughter as some of the apple halves jumped out of the juicer and back on to the desk!

The students took turns putting the apples into the juicer with Mrs. Gatti's help and then using the juicer's plunger to push the apple slice into the machine.

The juice poured out of the spout and into the measuring cup underneath. When the juice came out more slowly, Mrs. Gatti emptied out the pulp into the organic bin and then the juice poured out more steadily again.

The students juiced enough apples for about 1.5 liters of juice! They said the juice was delicious!

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Fun at the Apple Orchard

Playing around the farm.

Picking apples.

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Watch out for that Hay!!!!

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Yummy!

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The Primary Room used the apples they picked to make apple pie for Thanksgiving.

"A" is for Apple

Morning and afternoon Playschool visits an apple orchard. Throughout the week we learned about apples and how they grow.

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All aboard the tractor, we're off to the orchard!

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George the apple farmer tells us how to tip the apple up to the sun to remove the apple from the branch.

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Anodea looks for apples to put in Daddy's basket.-
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Mikaela finds her apple. It sure is big!

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Team work. Andreas and Lucas look for apples together.

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Melodie's apple is crunchy and juicy.

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Gabriela searches through the branches for just the right apple.

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Kyle wants to climb the ladder to reach the apples growing high in the tree.

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During the afternoon it rained, but Playschool still enjoyed the search for apples. Hudson is way up high in the apple tree!

Kindergarten Goes Apple Picking

The Kindergarten went apple picking and YUM was it fun!

See those Smiles?

The children LOVED the ride into the orchard on the tractor trailer!