Tapping Our Sugar Maple Tree
Today we went to tap a maple tree. We used a hand drill and a battery drill. The sap tasted good. We put a bucket on the tree so we could get the sap. Mrs. Pearce and Daniel’s mom helped. It was really fun! By Kelvin
When I went to our maple tree and tapped it, we first drilled a hole into the tree. The first drill we used was a hand powered drill. The second drill we used was a battery powered drill. By Lila
On Friday our class tapped a maple tree. This is how we got a hole. We got a drill and started to drill. After we drilled a hole, a little sap came out. Then we got to taste some sap. By Cesar
On Friday, March 14, our class went outside to tap a sugar maple tree. We walked through the woods and found a tree with black bark and holes. Mrs. Pearce told us to measure the tree to find out if it was big enough to tap. First we used a hand powered drill and then we used a battery powered drill to make the hole. And sap came out! It tasted like water, but sweet. We put a spile in and then hung a bucket under the spile. Then we went back to class. By Maya
On Friday the class went outside. We were taking turns tasting some sap. The sap was in the tree. The teachers put a bucket on the tree. By Sandy
We went to the school forest. Then we crossed a road. Ms. Allen told us that the maple tree looked like a four. First we measured the circumference. It was about 70 inches. We used a hand powered drill and then a battery powered drill. The whole class got to taste the sap. It tasted sweet. We put a spile in before we tasted it. We put a bucket on the tree. By Rey
Making Sap into Syrup
On Monday we went back out to the tree. We collected two frozen buckets of sap. The sap wasn’t dripping from the spile. By Cee Cee
On Monday we went back to our tree and the bucket had frozen sap in it. We took it back to class. When it melted we put the sap in the Nesco. We checked how much sugar there was in it. By Brandy
On Monday we went back to collect the sap. We had two big buckets of frozen sap. Then we went back to class and then we measured the sap. We had 26 cups of sap. After we measured the sap, we put it in a big oven. It was called a Nesco. Then we measured the amount of sugar in the sap. We used a hydrometer to see. It needs to be 66 or 67 percent sugar. By Elyse
On Monday we went back to our tree to collect the sap. We had two buckets. We measured and we had twenty-six cups. Then we started to boil it. The hydrometer measures percent sugar. The hydrometer showed less than twenty-five percent. I hope this turns into syrup. By Jane
Once we got some sap we boiled it so there was less water and more sugar. Then we used a hydrometer to measure the sugar. Ms. Allen boiled the sap at her house. We also got to taste the syrup. One bottle tasted too sugary. The other one tasted just right. By Maximo
Today we boiled the sap with a Nesco. A Nesco is a small oven. It boiled our sap! The Nesco is hot! Do not touch it! We’re using a hydrometer. A hydrometer is a thing that measures how much sugar is in it. By Rowan
The next day we went to our tree and collected the sap. We took it back to class and boiled it into maple syrup. We tasted some of that too. I can’t wait for our pancake party! By Madeline
Our teacher, Ms. Allen, had to take home the sap to boil it more. Then we got to taste our own homemade syrup. We had two bottles. One bottle was really dark. It tasted like the ones in the stores. It tasted pretty good. By Claire
The next day we measured the sap with measuring cups. We boiled the sap. The next day we got to taste the sap which was now syrup. The dark syrup tasted good. By Damarion