This is Teacher Rosemary. I thought since letter "A" is the letter of the week, it would be fun to learn about apples! I talked about the parts of the apple, how they grow, and briefly about pollination.
I did an apple oxidation experiment to show how, when the skin is peeled off of an apple, oxidation will cause the apple meat inside to turn brown when exposed to air. However, if you put lemon juice on the meat of an apple, it will prevent the apple from turning brown because lemon juice contains citric acid, which is an anti-oxidatant.
My friends were so excited to see my apple peeler in action...going round and round gently removing the skin like a long piece of spaghetti. We even made the connection to our outer space unit by observing that the apple in the peeler was rotating on an axis, just like our planets do!
We wrapped up the morning by making our very own apple turnovers. My friends chopped up their own apple slices, then placed them within the dough triangles.
Cooking is always a great sensory and science experience. What does it look like now? Smell like? Feel like in your hands? Do you think it will be the same or different when it comes out of the oven? Let's test our hypothesis!
For snack, we all enjoyed apple turnovers together. Yum!
Enjoy the weekend!
Teacher Rosemary
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