Johnny Appleseed Week

I love Johnny Appleseed week!! This year during this week our curriculum map wanted us teaching sequence of events. So we read the biography of Johnny Appleseed and sequenced the events in his life the first day.

The second day we read the Stephen Kellogg tall tale Johnny Appleseed and sequenced the events.

The third day we compared the two stories along with the genres.

The forth day the students made a Johnny Appleseed mini book and webbed the characteristics of him providing evidence.

Friday was applesauce day. I read a nonfiction book about apples and the students sequenced the life cycle of the apple tree. Afterwards we conducted a science lab about solids and liquids. We described the properties of the apple as a solid and drew and labeled a diagram. Then we peeled and chopped the apples to make apple sauce.