Welcome fall! We are crazy for apples!!

I veered off track from our normal curriculum this week to do a theme of APPLES!! Since fall has begun, we are all about fall things. We visited our local apple orchard here twice already! We picked apples, rode on a tractor ride, and toured the orchard to learn about how apple trees grow (seeds, blossoms, bees, pollination, picking, washing, and even how apple cider is made)! We saw it all. Here are some fun apple activities we did in our homeschool!

Fall books I set out to read.

 

We made homemade applesauce. We used words that teach us to follow directions and wrote down the steps on an "anchor chart". 

Connor cut, pasted and practiced reading this bible verse. 

Noah had a matching activity. He matched shapes and pictures and glued them onto the paper to make a match. He also used a dot marker on an A worksheet. We sang a "letter sounds" song.

We made homemade apple pie play dough! It has apple pie spice in it and smells so good! 

 

Connor's: 

 Noah's sculpture below:

We used our 5 senses to "describe" an apple. It was not as easy as it seems! We had to learn moving beyond the word "good" ("it tastes good, it smells good...") We tried expanding our vocabulary using descriptive words. 

We also discussed fact vs. opinion.

We inspected the parts of an apple:

And practiced reading: 

More apple activities later!