Apples!

During the month of September we started talking about and studying apples.  Although it's normally a great fall theme on its own around here it takes on a bit more importance as we usually get 2-3 bushels of apples that invade our kitchen for a bit until I can turn them into applesauce that we enjoy throughout the year. Here's a few of the activities and things we did to celebrate the apple harvest season. 

Taste testing different varieties of apples.  It was a unanimous family decision for Jonagolds!

 

Studying the life cycle of an apple tree.

3 part language cards for the parts of an apple tree life cycle.

Collection of apple books we had in our bookshelf.

Dissecting an apple and learning about the different parts.  Labelled picture downloaded from http://montessoritidbits.blogspot.com/2010/10/parts-of-apple.html

Labeling his own picture of the parts of an apple.  Again, picture from Montessori Tidbits (see link above).

 

Probably Bean's favorite project-shrunken apple heads!  He made his into a vampire pirate.

Tissue paper art.

Bean's drawing of an apple.

Bean's new apple corer/slicer.  This was used for not only snack time but helping mom prepare apples for the crockpot during applesauce making time.

Downloaded book from Enchanted Learning.  Lots of neat little activities and coloring pages to extend the theme.

One of the pages from his book.  Identifying an apple tree during the four seasons.