Happy Johnny Appleseed Day!!!
We have gone overboard with apples… and Johnny.
We sing about him:
(warning this song is sure to get stuck in your head!)
We write about him:
(I will have to reteach what a FACT and what an OPINION is.) 😉
….and we went craft crazy today and even dressed up like Johnny!
Today was our last day studying apples and it sure was a success! We started our “official” Johnny Appleseed celebration after chapel when we all changed into our Johnny clothes. The kids brought in plaid shirts, jeans and kicked off their shoes to look like Johnny.
{Aside- as one of my precious firsties kicked off his shoes he goes, “Miss Smith, my dad says my feet stink worse than HIS!!!” At that moment I was very thankful I had my Scentsy going!!!}
Then we started a five rotation craft fiesta!
Each child today made:
1. a Johnny hat
2. a mosaic “stained glass” apple
3. a labeled apple core
4. ate apples at a CARAMEL DIPPING STATION
5. Johnny!
Then we went bobbing for apples!!! Might I say, they were MUCH better at this than I expected!!
We even wore pots on our heads!!
Now tell me that wasn’t a FUN day! {“BEST DAY EVER!!!”}
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I love what you did for Apple day. :o)
The Paper Maid
What a fun day! I love hearing kids say, “This is the best day ever!” Last year I had a little girl that said it every day…I miss her!!
Jenny
Owl Things First!
Sounds like so much fun! I would have LOVED to be in your classroom for all your Johnny activites!!! 🙂
Maria
http://curiousfirsties.blogspot.com
I bet your students had a totally terrific apple day! Great pictures, Kristen. Thanks for sharing them!
Ѽ Lori
Teaching With Love and Laughter
luvyorkies@gmail.com
LOVE all your ideas. Two questions – how did you make the mosaic apple and would you mind sharing the Johnny Appleseed fact/opinion sheets you use?
Thanks,
melaniejarrett@gmail.com
What a fun day!! I am totally trying some of these activities next week! Thanks for all the great ideas:) I agree with Maria- I would have loved to be in your class too!!
Megan
meggss8@gmail.com
I love all the great apple ideas and can’t wait to use the interactive notebook pages. Thanks for sharing:-)
I had totally forgotten about bobbing for apples like I did as a kid. I thought with all the germ concerns it had died out. I’m glad it didn’t. Looks like a really fun class. I got some other ideas from http://monthbymonth.scholastic.com/teach.html in their Johnny Appleseed unit.