How to Make an Apple Pie & See the World

Yesterday was our first day of co-op for the fall semester. The kids really enjoyed it. D is taking Legos, Jr. Acheievement (Communities) & Art. K is in the Kindergarten class that is always full of fun learning activities, games & snacks.

After co-op we came home and worked on the basics (reading, writing & math). :o) K copied her first two sentences today and a did a great job! She enjoys writing! I need to break a few pencils into little ones to help her grip improve. :o)

Today we began a new FIAR book study...How to Make an Apple Pie & See the World. The kids enjoyed it, even C sat on my lap and listened to the story about a little girl who goes all over the world in search of ingredients for her apple pie.

We concentrated our country study on Italy today (it is one of the countries the girl in the story visits and picks semolina wheat to grind into flour for the pie crust).

They looked at the shape of the country, reviewed/learned what a peninsula is, browsed a few pics of things in Italy (Leaning Tower of Pisa) and colored the flag for a mini-book in their lapbook for the week.

They both did other apple activities...D an apple type wordsearch (he loved it) and K colored baskets and filled them with apples then used the dot markers to "paint" the apples red/green.

Drew began a science experiment today...He boiled water to mix with salt and pour into a dish.

He is going to watch the dish each day and see how many days it takes the water to evaporate. (Obviously if we sat it outside in the sun it would take only hours...but we may have our friendly squirrel drinking it up!)

It was a fun morning! :o)