Ooh, Apples!

Today Leah and Rebecca went to Jefferson Patterson Park for their annual "Pinch Pot Workshop" -- a nice culminating project to our week of body part study.

Like every other teacher, we will be doing apples this upcoming week. :-) Here is my particular version (Tuesday through Friday).


Complete booklist:
A Child's Seasonal Treasury by Betty Jones
Christopher's Harvest Time by Elsa Beskow
Painting with Children by Brunhild Muller
Festivals Family and Food by Diana Carey and Judy Large
Around the Year by Elsa Beskow
Earthways: Simple Environmental Activities for Young Children by Carol Petrash
The Apple Cake by Nienke van Hichtum



Day One
A Child's Seasonal Treasury:
Movement Game - page 16
I Have - page 15
Stepping Stones - page 44
Two Little Blackbirds - page 20

read Christopher's Harvest Time

King's Landing Park program
"The Last Hike of Summer", 10 - 11:30 am


Day Two
A Child's Seasonal Treasury:
Two Little Blackbirds - page 20
Can You? - page 15

"Red in Autumn" from Painting with Children, page 47
wet-on-wet watercolor painting: RED

Battle Creek Cypress Swamp program
"Apples", 10 - 10:30 am


Day Three
Festivals Family and Food:
"Old Roger is Dead" ring game

A Child's Seasonal Treasury:
"Yellow the Bracken" song on dulcimer, page 37
Apple Secrets - page 36
cut apple

read "September" poem in Around the Year

apple picking at Community House

"Drying Apples" activity from Earthways, page 38
save some apples for Granny's Apple Cake tomorrow


Day Four
A Child's Seasonal Treasury:
"Yellow the Bracken" song on dulcimer, page 37
Golden Apple Tree - page 42

read The Apple Cake
begin Granny's Apple Cake (this recipe takes a long time and will be returned to throughout the day)

beeswax crayons

Southern Community Center program
"Nibble, Nibble, Nibble", 10-10:30 am



I titled this post "Ooh, Apples!" because that's from our version of Old Roger Was Dead (101 Toddler Favorites by Music For Little People). You hear the old lady in the background saying delightedly, ooh, APPLES!

New verses to be introduced this week are "Rainbow Fairy Ring" for watercolor painting and "Colorful Journeying" for beeswax crayons; both may be found in A Child's Seasonal Treasury.