The book is a bunch of silly talk, but in the end it turns out that rain DOES actually lead to applesauce. This is a 1965 Caldecott Honor book, and it lives up to its award!! The pictures are strange but fascinating, and the text makes us laugh every time!Earlier in the day we read...
And we traced the trip the apples made from Iowa to Oregon on the map. We printed another map that shows the places where Johnny Appleseed planted apples.
Yesterday was full with the regular math and reading AND then the long bus ride to our homeschool group. On the bus we read a book about India...learning about how people lived, what they wore, what the government was like, and the kind of religions the people followed.
Homeschool group was a total blast!! We used the multipurpose room at a community center, but the rules have changed since last year. The kids cannot play with balls. We stood around scratching our heads for a while. Then the kids got out the tumbling mats and a bunch of chairs. They built houses and tents with the tumbling mats. Then they used one of the mats to set up a stage curtain, and a bunch of them worked out a play while the others lined up rows of chairs to watch. They *did* actually tumble on the mats for a while, too, and they played various and sundry animal games. I couldn't believe how the group of them could have so much fun with so little!!
On Monday we rode our bikes to Savers. It was a little cold and wet out, but we managed to go for a walk and collect leaves when we got home before it really started to rain. Mane made leaf rubbings and practiced identifying leaves:
We talked about various leaf shapes and how leaves from different trees turn different colors in the autumn.
That pretty much covers the basics of what we've been up to this week. Tomorrow we have a field trip to go on a tram ride to see the autumn leaves and then we'll learn about apple cidering!
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