It’s Apple Time!

Autumn is a wonderful time of year.  The air is crisp, the sunlight has a sharper quality that enhances the leaves as they turn.  There’s something spicy in the air that calls upon harvest parties, hay rides, pumpkin scones, woolen sweaters, and apple cider.  MMMM, apple cider.  The next month or so leading up to Thanksgiving is a time full of harvest celebration and exploration of the season through the senses.  What a perfect time to combine the letter sound “a” and study the season’s bountiful harvest fruit…  the apple.

 Here is a break down of our aaaaaapplesauce aaaaaadventure as explored through the senses:

 Thanks to the school-age kids, they picked the apples from Teacher Kate’s tree.  The question of the day for them was, “How many apples does it take to make three pounds?”  That’s how much we needed for the recipe.  We picked way more than we needed! Phew!

  Also, thanks to Papa Chuck, Malia’s Grandpa, who brought us a really cool apple peeling tool.  What a fun way to peel an apple.

 

Feel the cool water washing off the firm, round apples.  Look at the glistening color of their outer skin.  These apples were a mottled mix of greenish yellow and reddish orange.

Wash,

  Wash,

Peel,

Peel,

Peel in a perfect spiral and feel their stickiness!

 

Listen to the chop, chop of cutting the apples.

 

Smell the cinnamon added to their sweetness.

 

Around and around we stir in the sugar… not too much.  Hee hee.

After it heats up in the big crock pot we all get to taste.  Yum yum.

 

Here is a picture of the Apple Sauce Express train.  Kids are inventive as they await their turn to help.

 

Also this week a trip to visit the grandmas and grandpas and Tobey Jones.  We sang so sweetly. Wink, wink!

Stay tuned to see pictures of our annual Terry’s Berries fieldtrip.