A's, Apple Pie and Seeing the World

We had a great time this week! (maybe it was to make up for my lack of planning last week...) Regardless, whatever the reason, I'm excited to share with you some of the things we did together for our homeschooling this go around.

Cameron became an "A" expert this week! We had fun "A" picking (matching up which ones are big "A's" and which are little "a's."

She learned how to write an "A" as well, but I didn't take pictures of that. One day I might be more organized (I keep dreaming it will happen, but I don't think that actually makes it happen). Here's some stuff we did with our book this week.

"How to Make an Apple Pie and see the world"
by Marjorie Priceman (c) 1994

This book opened up our world to several activities as well as made us laugh each time we read it! The main character opens up her recipe book to make an apple pie and goes to the market to buy her ingredients only to find that the market owner has closed up shop and "gone fishing." So, rather than give up hope, she decides to get the freshest ingredients possible from... around the world.

1. Italy for semolina wheat (for flour), 2. France for a chicken (which lay the finest eggs),
3. Sri Lanka for bark off the native kurundu tree (cinnamon), 4. England for a cow
(milk to churn into butter), 5. Jamaica for sugar cane (picking up some salt water
on the way) and 6. Vermont for the apples!

So, we got to learn a lot of geography, work on some vocabulary, do a little math, go on a field trip and, of course, make some apple pie! One of our favorite parts of the week was making an apple pie together and inviting our neighborhood friends over to share it with us. We read the story to everyone while enjoying the pie.

Some of the neighborhood kids. They liked the story too!

Well, we didn't travel the world for our ingredients, but it was delicious for our very first homemade apple pie!