But I woke up at 1:30 am on Friday morning and didn't go back to sleep until around 4:30 am. I do my best thinking at these times, which could be why I'm not able to go back to sleep. I got this idea that we could do science with our apples. And if I had a lab coat I could pretend to be a scientist when the kids came in. Luckily my boyfriend is a vet and has lab coats. He was happy to bring me one to school. When the students came in I had a lab coat and goggles on and told them I was a scientist. We talked about what scientist do and how they use their five senses.
I turned my apples into a kind of KWL chart. Only mine said, we know, we learned and we observed. We started by listing anything we knew about apples. Then I read them the book Apples by Gail Gibbons. I love this book. It has so much good information about apples. We then added information to our we learned chart. I then gave partners an apple and magnifying glass. They were suppose to be looking at their apple with it. We used our five senses to write on our we observe chart. I thought I had told the kids not to eat their apple because they were going to get apple slices in a few minutes. But apparently I hadn't and one little girl took not one bite out of her apple but several bites. Her partner told me I should have told them first. So maybe they were both eating off the apple. They got to try red, yellow and green apples and then color their name to match and put on the chart. After we finished our science we had some artsy fun and did apple prints. I'm not sure I took any pictures of how messy they got but it was messy. I'm not sure why some of the kids thought it was a good idea to wipe their hands on their clothes but I'm glad I had washable paint. Their prints didn't turn out as well as I had hoped but I'm thinking they'll get better with painting the more we do it. So check out our pictures of all our apple fun. I can't wait to see all the science week posts.
The apple chart |
Apple Print making |
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