Friday, December 2, 2011

FIAR - Volume 1: How to make an Apple Pie and See the World


We rowed "How to make an Apple Pie and See the World" mid October around the time we went apple picking to a nearby orchard.  This is a cute and funny story of how to make an apple pie a little girl goes around the world to get the various ingredients!

Of course there are ample opportunities to indulge in some World Geography in this row.  We located the various countries on our world map and discussed how certain ingredients are native to certain countries.

We went apple picking to a nearby orchard and the kids had so much fun there.  We ended up making apple sauce and some snack sized apple pies with those apples.  We discussed the different kinds of apples we picked and had a taste test to find which one we liked best!

We did some Science by cutting an apple in half and naming the parts of an apple.  We used the free cards from here.


We also got the free lifecycle cards from Montessori for Everyone and D loved this work.


We made some red and white playdough and D made apple pies.


We made apple prints, cutting an apple in half both sideways and length-wise.



We also worked with this poem during this week and poetry is always a favorite in our house.


We had checked out an "Apples" kit from our local library.  So, in addition to the main FIAR book there were other lovely books on Apples that we rowed.  Here are a few from the 10 books we rowed.


We had great fun with this row!  I am so late in posting this! I am linking this up to Montessori Monday.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing! I love reading all these FIAR blogs :) Thank you for joining the FIAR blogroll and I look forward to reading more of your rowing experience.

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  2. We will be rowing this story next week. Thanks for the ideas and links posted.

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