How Do Apples Grow?

We had a wonderful day together on Wednesday.  The children were all very happy and content and got along well with each other.  The bright sun and mild temperatures made for the perfect day! 

We began today with our art project.  Jackson was very gracious and collected leaves for us to use since the ones that we collected last week were too dry to paint.  Our project consisted of the children painting the leaves with warm fall colors and then making impressions on white paper of the leaves.  The prints were beautiful as were the painted leaves.  I hated to throw them away but we may use that project another day. 

We read the books, How Do Apples Grow and The Apple Pie Tree.  We learned about apples and how they grow.  We found out that bees are very helpful in helping apples grow and that apple blossoms help the bees make sweet honey.  Several of the children wanted me to comment about the apple flowers in their journals so after reading this, you know why they were talking about apples and flowers.

We also baked apple treats.  We cut the cores out of the apples and filled the holes with brown sugar and cinnamon.  We microwaved them for four minutes.  They were delicious!

We are off next week but I'll see you all back in two weeks.  Can you believe it will be November then?