To wrap up our kindergarten study of the five senses and to celebrate the beauty of autumn, we took a trip to Solebury Orchard in Bucks County. The students reviewed the life cycle of an apple tree with a presentation by an educator at the orchard before we boarded a wagon for a trek out to the orchards. We traveled through numerous rows of a variety of apple trees until we reached the apples ready and ripe for us to pick.
The students remembered how to tell if an apple was ready to pick- if you hold an apple and lift it upside down, it should come off the branch easily. If you need to tug at it, it is not yet ripe and ready for picking.
Both groups of kindergartners and many family chaperones, set to work finding just the right apples to select, pick and fill up bags to take home. After our picking adventure, everyone had a chance to taste a fuji apple. Delicious! We could not wait to eat our apples when we got home!
Before lunch, our lesson about apples continued as we all got to walk into the largest refrigerator we had ever seen, filled with apples. It was very cold inside but it did smell so good as the apple aroma filled the air!
Our five senses were put to good use on this trip as we: tasted, touched, smelled, saw and heard apples being picked and eaten. After lunch, our five senses were on full alert again as we all enjoyed apple cider donuts to culminate our time together on this beautiful fall day.
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