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johnny appleseed
By LaWanna

I was looking for new ideas for this week as well. I know these are late but maybe for next year. On his birthday we have planned center activities.
1.Bob for apples
2. Apple core mobile - white consruction paper
for shape of core, red or green top and bottom and black paper for seeds.
3. Video clip of Legends video from Disney about Johnny appleseed
4. Pampered Chef apple pealer and corer to cut apples, chop with plastic knives, place in crock pot to cook all night on low to make applesauce.
5. Make tree shape, trace around arm from elbow to fingers for trunk and add paint on sponges

for leaves and fingerprints for apples on the tree
6. graph favorite apple. Each group will be blindfoled and given a piece of red, green, and yellow apple. Each child will choose their favorite apple. Will make graph of apples shapes to show class favorite apple.

We also plan to write a big book in the shape of an eaten apple core with a red top and bottom. We write together. Each child contributes a sentence on chart paper. Discuss beginning, middle, end, conflict and resolution. Write child's name and number of sentence on paper. Cut chart apart and give each child a sentence strip to write the sentence on and a white apple core page to glue the sentence strip and to illustrate book. This will be a story of an adventure with Johnny Appleseed.

We also discuss tall tales and write individual tall tales about ourselves. We make puppets of Johnny Appleseed and read the story to younger grades. We have more ideas if you want them. These might be too many!