Did you know Johnny Appleseed was a real person named John Chapman? We celebrated Johnny's birthday by doing a variety of activities with apples. Each first grade friend brought in an apple on September 27th. We began by sorting our apples by size, shape, and color. We collected data on the colors of our apples by creating a tally chart. From there we took the data from our tally chart and created a bar graph that allowed us to analyze the data by asking questions such as - Which color apple did our class have the most/least of? How many green apples and yellow apples did we have in all? How many more red apples did we have than yellow apples?
We also read two biographies about Johnny Appleseed and, together, took notes about what we learned. After this we read and colored our own mini-book and puppet to share everything we learned we our family and friends.
Finally, we just HAD TO taste our delicious apples! As we ate our apples we brainstormed adjectives using our sense of sight, taste, touch, and smell to create list poems. These lovely apple poems are currently hanging on our classroom windows.
YUM!
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