How to Make an Apple Pie...

and See the World is our book this week!  So we started the school week a little early and made an apple pie on Sunday afternoon.  Adeline LOVED helping!  She put all the filling ingredients in the bag and shook it up to coat the apples.

Then made the top crust look pretty...

And TaDa!  A very yummy pie!  Daddy thought this was a great project!  We read How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World while the pie baked.  The book travels around the world finding the ingredients for the pie.  We will "visit" one country a day.  Sunday we checked out Italy where the main character found "superb semolina."

We also made a bunch of applesauce.  It was pretty tasty, too!

I didn't manage any pictures on Monday.  We spent the whole day outside.  We took our work out to the lawn and soaked up the sunshine while practicing our reading, writing and arithmetic.  :)  In the afternoon, we joined our homeschool friends for another VeggieTales co-op and a long walk/bike ride/scooter ride/watermelon picnic.  It was a great day!

Today has been another fun day.  Braxton is improving a LOT in his scissors skills.  He did his Farm Number Book all by himself today!

Adeline had a cut and paste activity, too.  She's singing while she works.  :)

Look, Jessica!  She did her music homework!  We made a list of all the places Adeline has heard music this past week.  I love that her very first response was "the wind outside."

Ten Red Apples is a fun book that includes skills for both kids.  The farmer in the book starts with an apple tree that has 10 red apples on it.  One by one, they are picked off by animals.  On each page, we placed pompoms on the apples.  Braxton got lots of practice counting to ten.

Adeline thought this tree should have all green apples.  She also did a tree with all yellow apples.  I think she was paying attention at the orchard Friday!

When the animal eats an apple, Adeline removes it from the tree.  Then we count how many apples remain and say 6 apples minus 1 apple = 5 apples.  It was a nice intro to subtraction.

Our new vowel sound today was the short letter e.  Adeline made this one.

She also had some practice sorting words into their word families.

And spelling out sight words.

Then we played Twister!  Good color recognition practice for Braxton and left/right practice for Adeline.  Not to mention, it's just plain fun!

The kids thought I needed a turn after they were done.  You will note that there are NO pictures of that.  :)

We finished up the day re-reading How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World.  We located Sri Lanka and learned that cinnamon comes from the bark of the kuranda tree that grows there.  It was also Vocab Day for our book, so as we read it, I explained the "big" words.   

We are also learning about the dentist this week.  We read Curious George Visits the Dentist and Doctor De Soto.  We talked about losing teeth which had Adeline very excited.  She's been pretending she has a loose tooth ever since her friends started losing teeth this summer.  This morning she told me, "Mom, this tooth is lazy!  Sometimes it wiggles and sometimes it doesn't."  She can't wait for her teeth to start coming out, but I'm quite alright with them staying put!

We started an experiment this afternoon with hard boiled eggs, milk and coffee.  They need to sit overnight, so that project will be finished tomorrow.