Our class and our kindergarten learning buddies from Mrs. Vogel’s class walked to Owen Woods to tap a sugar maple tree. Joe House, Mrs. Pearce, Mr Plane and Daniel’s mom helped us. Everyone got a turn to drill. We hammered a spile into the hole that we drilled. We all got a chance to taste the sap as it dripped from the spile. We hooked a bucket onto the spile and added a lid to keep bugs and stuff out. For three weeks we went to our tree to collect and measure our sap. One time there was only a drop! Altogether we collected 80 and 1/8 cups of sap. It made 3 and ½ cups of syrup. We had fun learning a maple syrup rap. At last we will get a chance to taste our syrup at a pancake party. YUM!
The maple tapping and sap-making adventures of the Crestwood 2nd graders will come to its tasty conclusion on Friday morning at their pancake party. Below is the story Ms. Curtin's class wrote about making maple syrup. Enjoy the slideshow, too! Our class and our kindergarten learning buddies from Mrs. Vogel’s class walked to Owen Woods to tap a sugar maple tree. Joe House, Mrs. Pearce, Mr Plane and Daniel’s mom helped us. Everyone got a turn to drill. We hammered a spile into the hole that we drilled. We all got a chance to taste the sap as it dripped from the spile. We hooked a bucket onto the spile and added a lid to keep bugs and stuff out. For three weeks we went to our tree to collect and measure our sap. One time there was only a drop! Altogether we collected 80 and 1/8 cups of sap. It made 3 and ½ cups of syrup. We had fun learning a maple syrup rap. At last we will get a chance to taste our syrup at a pancake party. YUM!
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