{learning} How to Make an Apple Pie & See the World

Today marks the end of our first two week unit!  To catch up all of you new readers, we decided to do PreK at home this year using Five in a Row.  I chose it primarily because it felt like a gentle beginning to school.  I can include lots of extras or we can simply snuggle together on the couch and talk.  

I decided to focus this year on an “Around the World” theme since M is such a fan of different countries.  I chose stories from the first two volumes that fit with the theme and just went from there.  I have spread each book/country into two week units, so we can fully enjoy each place.  And How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World seemed like the perfect place to begin!

Here are some of the details about what we did and learned.  I apologize ahead of time for the horrible pictures…the boys wake me up each morning around 6:30 and hurry through breakfast, so we can “do school!”  So I hope that explains the lack of natural lighting and pajamas!  🙂

(Also, if you are a fellow “FIAR”-er, please check my Pinterest for tons of ideas!)

Our “Art Gallery”

A peek into our lapbook…

The books we read:

• How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
• Ten Apples Up on Top!
• The Apple Pie Tree
• Johnny Appleseed

I was afraid two weeks of apples might be too much, but we actually enjoyed all two weeks’ worth of activities!  We made apple prints, had a taste test with 4 different types of locally grown apples, made homemade applesauce and apple cake, created a lapbook, and even made our own playdough (scented with cinnamon and spices, so it smelled like apple pie!)  

Our field trip for this book will be our annual Grandparent’s Day/Opening NFL Weekend apple picking trip with my parents.  We’ve been going every year since M was a baby.  The boys are so excited and I am too!  We still need to make an apple pie!