An apple-icious week
This was our first week following a loose curriculum - and what a difference it made to have a lesson plan for the week! This week, obviously, was all about apples. We read apple themed books, we made apple crafts, we used our fine motor skills to cut apples, and we finished the week with a family apple tasting!
Ten Apples Up on Top!
Making our apple craft project after reading "Ten Apples Up on Top!"
So much fun! We printed out pictures of ourselves, then stacked enough apples on our heads to spell out our name. And then they glued. and glued. and glued until the glue was gone. Voila!
Pasta sensory bin!
So much fun to do and so easy to make! You basically take the same recipe for dying rice and do it with any shape of pasta. We used about 5 different kinds of pasta so that we could also work on sorting by color and by shape.
Do not judge my mothering skills off of the ragamuffin you see in this picture, she would either do homeschool or get dressed and cleaned up, but not both, that day. Ha!
A family apple tasting
First
We selected the 6 apples we were going to taste. We also selected what categories we wanted to compare the apple tasting with - sweet, juicy, and crispy. In order to figure that out, we watched a video about "what makes an apple yummy" or something like that. Then we compared and contrasted their sizes, colors, and shapes. Learning!
Second
We all worked at cutting the apples. If there's one thing that homeschooling has helped me with, it's learning to let go of all control. I gritted my teeth and handed them each a butterknife to cut (eek!) uneven cubes for our taste test [and then I quickly fixed as much as I could. I'm a work in progress, ok?]
Third
We all took part in our tasting! Some of us kept scorecards, and some just shouted out if they liked the particular bite or not (see above). In the end, Honeycrisp apples won in every single category and we ended our tasting with bellies full of fresh autumn apples. What a way to end our apple unit!