What We Studied This Week: Apples
This was a short study of mostly art and hands-on fun. We started with a day picking apples with friends and then spent most of the week reading, doing art, and using the songs and art study from Treehouse Schoolhouse. We baked a pie with Grandma and stamped dish towels with apple pieces. Jesse ate a lot of apples this week!
Language Arts
Fiction: The Apple Pie that Papa Baked, The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree, How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, Ten Apples up on Top
Non-Fiction: How do Apples Grow? by Betsy Maestro and Apples by Gail Gibbons
Chapter Book: Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder (continued)
An Apple Away Keeps the Doctor Away cut-and-paste poem
Oh, Apple! and the Apple Tree songs and lyric study from the Treehouse Schoolhouse Autumn Unit
Math
Ten Apples Up on Top
Dot-to-Dots
Math CGI Problem Solving
Number writing practice
Misc (Science, social studies, art)
Apple picking
Apple pie
Apple stamping
Still life drawing with chalk pastels inspired by Paul Cézanne’s Dish of Apples
Apple orchard watercolor