Quilt key ~ making maple syrup from the sap of Miquon maple trees

Katja ~ a Native American legend about how sap was discovered.
Joseph ~ taste testing real and fake maple syrup with the Hackett School.
Lizzie ~ making the spiles in Science with Tony and our friends from the
Hackett School.
Ibrahim ~ the Hackett School leaving in the snow storm that closed school.
Reuben ~ taste testing maple syrup with the Kindergarten.
Natalie ~ our class and the Kindergarten watching Maryanne drill the maple tree.
Ian ~ putting the spile in the maple tree with Bob and the Nursery.
Martin ~ how the sap travels through the inside of the tree and drips into
the bucket.
Nathaniel ~ Katie collecting the sap in a bucket.
Freda ~ emptying a bucket of sap into a jug.
Katie ~ Nathaniel straining the sap with coffee filters.
Sofie ~ teaching Leigh and Diana’s group how to taste test maple  syrup.
Jonah ~ boiling sap in the kitchen over the stove.
Juliet ~ comparing a gallon jug of sap to a tiny bit of syrup.
Kate ~ carrying the sap and the wood to the fire pit by the art room.
Francesca ~ collecting wood for the fire.
Halle ~ writing in our journals about making maple syrup at the fire.
Zach ~ finding sticks in the woods for roasting marshmallows.
Caleb ~ helping the Nursery roast marshmallows.
Jordan ~ making syrup over the fire.
Lena ~ making pancakes with fifth and sixth grade helpers.
Ashley ~ making pancakes and eating them on the playground.
Anne ~ all of us making the quilt squares about the maple syrup process.
Sherry ~ the maple leaf quilt square pattern.

by Maryanne, Sherry and Specialist Anne’s group during Conference Week -- March 2001