This week we started back to homeschool! For our first theme of the year, we picked apples. I gathered up our apple-themed materials and books for our first week back. The first book we read was 10 Apples Up on Top by Leo LeSeig. We had a new stack of read-alouds and 10 Apples Up […]
Experiencing Apples
I’ve done lots of apple-themed activities in the past with my kids, and wasn’t really planning on doing much with apples this fall. Sometimes I forget that though I’ve done these “apple” events and activities over and over again, my littlest ones really haven’t. God must have known that my littles needed some apple experiences […]
Apple Tree Number Match
Today I was cleaning through some old files when I came across this felt tree set I had made for my oldest daughter several years ago (I’m afraid to admit how many–lol!) This ended up being a great activity to do with my 3yr. old daughter today. I traced tree tops onto green felt and […]
Graphing Apples in OpenOffice
(click photo to see full-size) I want to thank those of you who participated in our informal apple survey. Today I had my 9yr. old son tally the results and make a graph in Open Office. It looks like Golden Delicious apples were the winner. Lately I have been looking at ways to integrate technology […]
This and That
I’ve been working on a couple never-ending projects(or so it seems) this week. I still can’t get my school room/supplies organized to where I feel inspired to teach. My biggest problem is figuring out how to store units in progress and supplements to our curriculum. Right now I have organized stacks of stuff all over […]
