One of the ongoing themes for this month is apples.
How I wish we had a kitchen at The English Schoolhouse so I could make some of my favorite snacks with the kids--apple pie, apple cake, apple dumplings, apple cider...
who knows? Maybe when we open the second one.
Anyhoo, we've been learning a lot about one of my favorite fruits. Last week we started out with this story-
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It looks sweet and simple enough |
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but it's full of scientific facts, info & diagrams |
When we finished reading
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I whipped out an apple |
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sliced it in 1/2 |
And we observed and discussed. I told the kids we'd be making an apple diagram of our own.
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We cut out an apple form using white paper |
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The book stated that most apples don't have more than 10 seeds...
ours had THIRTEEN!
(not all pictured here...as you can see I was battling some seed swipers while trying to take the pic) |
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our finished apple diagrams--
well, not really finished.
I would have love to have labeled them but you'd be surprised how an hour and a half lesson flies by |
Some kids stay longer at the schoolhouse, so we extended the lesson and made some fun apple prints...
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and one student still had apples on the brain when it was time for journal writing |
Sigh. What we coulda done with a kitchen.
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