Apples, Apples, Apples...

Today we decided to make use of the apples from our orchard trip, and chose to make Apple Sauce and Apple Crisp. After much peeling and coring, I had the crock pot full and ready to go. In the meantime, the girls kept themselves busy colouring and cutting out pictures of harvest foods I had printed off the computer earlier.

After adding the sugar and cinnamon, we set the apple sauce aside and worked on our Apple Crisp. The girls measured and mixed the topping, and layered the apples in the pan.

Both turned out delicious and Jeff gave the Apple Sauce a thumbs up at dinner - more of a "you can make this again, if it's not too hard" comment.

Below are some of the other things we kept ourselves busy with over the week. The apple tree picture in the middle was my favorite because Aislinn just sat down, drew it and brought it over to me all excited about her work! I love that she is finally branching away from the safety of her people drawings, and trying new things!

The word box seems to be going quite well too. The girls ask me almost everyday for a new word, and Aislinn has been happy to review them and read them to me. So far, because there are so few, she just needs to read the first letter to remember what the word is. Bee and Tree are fun, because it is making her think though the change the double e vowel sound makes. Tara is happily reviewing her letters with A and T coming with no hesitation, and sometimes she remembers the sound of the letter before the letter name which is great as that is what we are trying to emphasize.

We are aiming now to move away from the apples, and have decided to talk about farms, crops and harvesting. The girls are excited about some of the fall crafts we have planned including basic leaf rubbings and nature collages.

I think I might encourage starting a nature book and seeing how many different species of leaves we can find and dry, label and paste. Aislinn found a maple leaf today and announced that is smelled like Maple Syrup. We also compared it to the Canadian flag symbol and hope to find red ones to make our own Canadian flags when the leaves turn. So many things to do, our days are just flying by!