Afton Apple Orchard

What a beautiful, amazing day we had today on our field trip to Afton Apple Orchard in Hastings.  We got to go on a hay ride, pick a pumpkin out of a pumpkin patch, pick three apples off real apple trees in the orchard, taste fresh apple cider, eat lunch, play on the incredible playground and visit the animals in the petting zoo.  

Special shout out to our fabulous chaperones...Seon Jeong Yun (Leia's mom), Nichole Russell (Nolan's mom) and Walter Zeiss (Addy's dad) for taking the time to help us out today.  And also to Mrs. Radermacher for her photography skills and help on the trip as well.  We could not have done it without you!!!  

A huge thanks goes out to Miss Susan, our tour guide, and the entire staff of Afton Apple Orchard.  What a wonderful experience they provided for our Northview students today.  In case you are wondering...we were able to pick McIntosh apples (which are tart) or Spartan apples (which are sweet).  Hope you were able to enjoy them!

There are lots of photos that I uploaded from today.  They are not in any particular order, but I think you will see that we had a perfect day.  The weather was great, the kindergartners were very polite, well behaved and quite tired at the end of the day.  Enjoy!

         

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

      

         

      

      

      

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Recess Photo

We posed for a fun recess group photo on Monday...look at these Northview All Stars!

Math Workplaces

We have been busy building stamina as mathematicians by participating in Math Workplaces.  These activities offer hands on manipulatives for the students to explore and learn with.  Currently we are working with unifix cubes, pattern blocks, polydrons, bucket of bugs and geoboards.  Students work collaboratively in small groups when we do work places.

   

   

   

   

   

Guest Reader - Mrs. Town!

On Thursday morning, we had the pleasure of having a Guest Reader for our Interactive Read Aloud. Mrs. Town visited and brought a great story to read called Dad's First Day by Mike Wohnoutka.  It was a fun story about a little boy's first day of school and how sad his dad was that he was going to school!

   

We had a great time hearing the story and talking about why the boy's dad was so sad.  It kind of reminded us of when we started kindergarten a few weeks ago.  We wondered if any of our parents felt a little sad when we went off to school.

   

   

   

Thanks for reading to us, Mrs. Town.  We hope you will come again soon!

Tasting Apples and Graphing Results

On Friday, we continued our exploration of apples.  Students that wanted to had the opportunity to taste a piece of a red, yellow and green apple.   

   

Then we had to decide which type of apple we liked the best.  We decided to organize this information using a giant floor graph.  Each student chose a paper apple that matched the color of the favorite apple they tasted and placed it on the graph.

   

   

When we finished placing apples on the graph, we observed and analyzed our information.  

   

We determined that four students liked the yellow apple best.  There was a tie...there were eight students that liked the red apple best and eight students that liked the green apple best.  It was a very cool way for us to see the results of our apple tasting activity.