Miss Katherine's Spiced Peaches

In my small group for reading, we've been reading Holes by Louis Sachar. It's one of my favorite books, so I decided to have my fourth graders read it and do tons of fun activities along the way.

Anyway, we read about Miss Katherine's famous spiced peaches (Chapter 23) and just had to make some ourselves! I bought a 4-pack of jarred peaches in light syrup from Costco and brought a few spices the book mentioned plus some others that my students came up with that they thought would be good in the peaches. We ended up putting nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, brown sugar, white sugar, and vanilla bean in a crockpot with our peaches. It was so much fun! I let each student add an ingredient (just a dash of each spice and then about 1/2 cup of both types of sugar). Then I showed them how to cut open vanilla bean and scrape out the delicious inside.

We turned the crockpot on around 10:00 on low and ate them that afternoon during science time. They were so good! Some kiddos didn't like the smell of the cloves, but opted to try them anyway, and surprisingly liked them and even asked for seconds!

I forgot to take a picture before I dished out all the fruit, but it looked and smelled fantastic!