Apples, Apples, One, Two, Three

So our class just finished the Apples unit and moving onto Pumpkins! During this unit we had a field trip to Apple Barn, Abbotsford. Although it was a long way out from Vancouver, it was definitely worth it. There were multiple schools there, but everything was very organized and to keep kids occupied they had a playground, a mini "zip-line," 1-floor high slides, and the most amazing jumping pillow (basically it was like a jumping castle, but with no top). The actual tour itself consists of tasting apples, learning about an old fashion apple sorter, going to the petting farm, learning about the life cycle of apples and pumpkins, going on a hayride, and actually picking a pumpkin from the patch. 

As I was wrapping up the apples unit, I put together a booklet for each child of what he or she learned/did for the past couple of weeks. 

Clockwise from top: colour of their favourite apple (after an apple tasting at school), using their eyes to observe what the apple looks like on the outside and the inside, the four seasons of the apple tree, counting how many apples were un-painted, different combinations of 5 apples in a barrel, life cycle of an apple (pictures were cut out, then glued and organized on the life cycle chart), and the cover with a concrete poem of an apple.