This week we had lots of fun doing the above named book in school.
It is about a girl who wants to make an apple pie and has a list of ingredients, but the market is closed. She then hops on a boat and heads off to Italy where she picks some semolina wheat. She then heads off to France for a chicken (French chickens lay elegant eggs). She then heads to Sri Lanka for bark from a Kurundu tree(aka. cinnamon). Then she goes to England for a cow/milk (you will know her by her good manners and her charming accent). She then heads to Jamaica but on her way across the ocean she collects sea water(salt). While in Jamaica she picks sugar cane. Finally she heads back to the USA and parachutes (with her cow and chicken) to an apple orchard in Vermont where she picks 8 apples, 1 for the cow, 1 for the chicken and 1 for herself, and 5 for the pie. Finally she begins the process of grinding the wheat, pounding the bark, evaporating the water from the salt(we actually did this during the week) boiling the cane and so on. This book is read 5 days in a row with an activity everyday. First we learned about all of the countries in the book, their location, flags etc. We also evaporated water from salt and documented it by making a book to put in our lapbooks(if interested in this do a search on youtube.com). We did a geography lesson by locating all of the countries on mini maps and placed them into our lapbooks as well. We did apple math when studying the beautiful Vermont. To finish the week, Jessica became teacher and helped the children make an apple pie, which they made a book with measures, time and such. It also had directions in it to follow, so they got a little reading in too. The apple pie was delicious! Next week we will be doing the Ox Cart Man. A beloved book we look forward to reading again.
It is about a girl who wants to make an apple pie and has a list of ingredients, but the market is closed. She then hops on a boat and heads off to Italy where she picks some semolina wheat. She then heads off to France for a chicken (French chickens lay elegant eggs). She then heads to Sri Lanka for bark from a Kurundu tree(aka. cinnamon). Then she goes to England for a cow/milk (you will know her by her good manners and her charming accent). She then heads to Jamaica but on her way across the ocean she collects sea water(salt). While in Jamaica she picks sugar cane. Finally she heads back to the USA and parachutes (with her cow and chicken) to an apple orchard in Vermont where she picks 8 apples, 1 for the cow, 1 for the chicken and 1 for herself, and 5 for the pie. Finally she begins the process of grinding the wheat, pounding the bark, evaporating the water from the salt(we actually did this during the week) boiling the cane and so on. This book is read 5 days in a row with an activity everyday. First we learned about all of the countries in the book, their location, flags etc. We also evaporated water from salt and documented it by making a book to put in our lapbooks(if interested in this do a search on youtube.com). We did a geography lesson by locating all of the countries on mini maps and placed them into our lapbooks as well. We did apple math when studying the beautiful Vermont. To finish the week, Jessica became teacher and helped the children make an apple pie, which they made a book with measures, time and such. It also had directions in it to follow, so they got a little reading in too. The apple pie was delicious! Next week we will be doing the Ox Cart Man. A beloved book we look forward to reading again.
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OH yummy! Looks delicious, and sounds like a wonderful book too!
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