October 24, 2011: Day 48
Farm School Homework
Homework Assignment due October 25, 2011
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Caca’s
Halloween Treats
1. Take photographs of the creating and
finished treats
2. Have a copy of the recipe for the
Almanac
3. Do a computer search and find out where
the holiday of Halloween came from.
·
Apple
picking
1. Do a short report about Johnny Appleseed
and why he is important for the farms in New England. This can include a poem, song, or an art piece. I would like you
to cite two sources for your report. At least one can be from the internet. See
below for how to cite properly.
2. Do a creative description – poem or
story – about apple picking with your mom and friends. Use descriptive terms
and you will illustrate it with your photographs.
3. Take photographs during your apple
picking trip.
4. Find 3 or 4 things you can do with
apples on the farm…. Crafts and food are okay to use. Write a brief description
of the craft or recipe. You will illustrate it with clip art for the Almanac.
Apple Picking:
Today we went Apple Picking at Rocky Ridge Orchard. We took
two bags and set off with our wagon. We picked Cortland, Macintosh, and Idared
apples. We filled up two bags halfway full of apples. It was super fun and a
great way to spend a fall afternoon.
A Macintosh apple is an apple
cultivar
with red and green skin, a tart flavor, and tender white flesh
In the movie we watched about Johnny Appleseed, Johnny
visited a family who’s baby had just been born and he was sick. Johnny cured
him by using apples. The family was so grateful to Johnny, they let him plant
an orchard on their land. Johnny named the apple that grew on the tree the
Macintosh, after the family.
A Cortland is a kind
of apple discovered after the Macintosh. Its flavor is sweet compared to
McIntosh, and it has a flush of crimson against a pale yellow background sprinkled with short,
dark red stripes and gray-green dots
Definition: Cultivar:
a variety of plant that originated and persisted under cultivation
Creative Description:
On a fall afternoon,
With your family and friends,
Go pick some apples,
It’s the new trend,
You can pick Cortland’s,
You can pick Mac’s,
You can make apple pie,
Or just eat them for snacks,
You can eat apples, in the Big Apple,
You can eat apples in your house,
Feed apples to a dino,
Or to a little tiny mouse,
You can eat green apples,
Or you can eat red,
I wouldn’t eat the brown ones though,
I’d eat the yellow ones instead
Report on Johnny
Appleseed
Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) was born on September 26,
1774. He was a great man that planted apples all over Ohio, Illinois, and
Idaho, Introducing the importance of nature, the outdoors, and apples to the
world. Although a legend, (the legend states he traveled through the country
planting apples but he really only did it in three states or so) without Johnny
Appleseed’s ways of showing us conservation, we wouldn’t have nearly as many
apples as we do today.
Johnny Appleseed was one of the first Americans, He is as
American as Apple Pie!
“Johnny Appleseed.” Tall
Tales and Legends. Showtime. Los Angeles, Ca. 31, October, 1986. Television.
Report on Halloween
All Hallows eve (Halloween) is an ancient holiday that is
believed to be the night where the dead arise. It is said we should honor them
or else we shall be cursed. Over the years we have made many fun activities
about the holiday like, carving jack-o-lanterns, dressing up in all sorts of
costumes, bobbing for apples and much more.
Recipes
1.
Crock Pot Applesauce:
Core sliced the apples, put them in crock pot
and poured lemon juice on them to keep them from browning, we put cinnamon,
nutmeg, Honey, Apple cider = 2 cups, 1 cup of water. Cover it, and plug it in
for 3 hours.
2.
Easy Apple Pie:
Super simple American apple pie
We use the Apple corer slicer, it peels and
slices by a crank, the slices look like a slinky or spring, Mom pours lemon juice
on the slices to keep them from browning, 14 apples are needed for the pies, we
picked Cortland, Idared, and Macintosh apples to use for the pie.
Put apple slices in bowl. Add 2/3 cup sugar
(Mom like sugar in the raw)
1/3
cup white flour
Cinnamon (lots of it!)
Nutmeg (not as much as cinnamon)
Cloves (little less than nutmeg)
And then mix all together until all the
apples slices are brown and syrupy
We use store bought pie crust that has been
thawed on the counter, we set the oven to 350. Bake pie for 40 mins.
We
made 3 pies, 2 to freeze, 1 to eat.
To freeze apple pie you line glass pie
plates with plastic wrap and then pour apple pie mix into plate and cover with
more plastic wrap. Then freeze the pie overnight and remove plastic-wrapped pie
from glass plate and then store in gallon freezer bags.
When you’re ready for pie, take one pie out
of freezer and uncover plastic wrap, then place frozen pie in fresh pie crust
and bake extra 7-8 mins.
Lewis & Clark
Board Game Plan: Review
The Lewis & Clark Expedition Board Game
Plan
Objective:
Design and create a board game that will teach players about
the historic and exciting Lewis & Clark expedition! The game will be
designed as a Start to Finish* game with dice, player tokens, and directive
cards. Players will journey along with the Corps of Discovery learning about
its members, the expedition timeline, the challenges and successes, plants and
animals they identified, the Native American tribes they encountered, and the
American landscape they charted.
Resources:
Web Quests
Books
6 x 6s
Internet
Tools:
Board Game box
Ruler
Pencil
Paper
Paint
1 Die
6 player tokens
36 Directive Cards
Things to think
about:
What’s the age range for players? Can you do an easier
version and then a harder one for different age players?
What are the rules—keep them simple and short.
Make the game both fun and educational! It was an exciting
journey—teach your players that!
Game Plan:
1.
Make timeline with dates of expedition
2.
Print out 3 good maps of the expedition
3.
Make notes about important and interesting points of
the expedition—identify at least 20
4.
Begin sketching Story Map for game using timeline,
maps, and notes
5.
Use your Lewis & Clark 6 x 6s to write (type)
directive cards
6.
Finalize Story Map on paper before penciling onto board
game box
7.
Write and print Rules of the game
8.
Identify player tokens & Make 6 player tokens
9.
Print and Paste 36 directive cards
10. Paint
board game box, shellac, and dry
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