How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, Five in a Row

We had so much fun rowing How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, by Marjorie Priceman.  I had the best time planning and preparing for this row and an absolute blast rowing it with the boys!  We rowed this book over one and a half weeks so we could really enjoy it and not be rushed.

SOCIAL STUDIES:  GeographyAs we traveled the world collecting ingredients for our apple pie we briefly studied about the countries of Italy, France, Sri Lanka, England and Jamaica, and the state of Vermont.

We placed our story disks on our world map and used yarn to connect them in the order that the ingredients were gathered along the way.  This was neat to see on the map.

  

Joe and Jack put together a puzzle of the world.

Joe played a memory game with cards I printed from the Five in a Row Circle using this fill in the blank sentence:  She went in a ___________ to ___________ to collect ___________.  

LANGUAGE ARTS:  Vocabulary and Roll A Sentence

Joe learned new vocabulary words as we read the story such as—superb, coax, persuade, and native. 

He enjoyed playing the game Roll A Sentence with our Education Cubes.  He’s just learned what nouns and verbs are in his Language Lessons so this game was wonderful practice and review (this will be a regular addition to his Language Arts for sure!).  He had to roll three cubes—one for noun, one for verb and one for adjective.  Then, he made up a sentence using the words he rolled and illustrated it. 

MATH:  Three Way Apple Math, Seed Count, Fractions, Size Sorting, Sequencing and Measurement

 

For math, Joe played the game Three Way Apple Math.  I laid out apple baskets that were numbered 1-20.  Then, I gave Joe three different stacks of cards.  Each stack had a different way of making the numbers 1-20.  He had to match each stack to the twenty baskets.  This game took him a while to complete, but he LOVED it and was so proud when he finished.  He did a great job! 

Jack played an apple seed count game along with our Education cubes, completed a cut and paste apple sequencing printable and sorted apples by size.

We touched on fractions while reading the book Apple Fractions, by Donna Townsend and eating a snack of apples practicing while we read.

 

Joe counted seeds in a real apple and both boys had fun making apple prints.

We made a delicious apple pie!  The boys helped me measure out the ingredients and get it all ready for the oven.  We used my Grandma’s cast iron skillet for baking it instead of a pie pan.  Made it even more special.

SCIENCE:  Salt and Evaporation, Apple Parts and Apple Tasting

 

We conducted an experiment on salt and evaporation from the FIAR manual.  This was cool to watch over the course of a week.  The cubes and crystals that were left in the end were so neat.  The boys, Hanna and Jamie all enjoyed looking at the big ones with magnifying glasses and under our microscope.

The boys each made a parts of an apple diagram out of construction paper.

They enjoyed tasting several different kinds of apples and being surprised by which ones were sweet and which were sour.  I made sure to get mostly apples they’d never tasted before—myself as well.  This was fun for all of us—Hanna joined us for this activity too.

Jack had fun with apple pie play doh—lots of fun!  He asked to play with the play doh every.single.day.  He made pies for Joe.  Joe was his customer.  He even carried them over to our play kitchen area and cooked them in the oven.  They played this game for about 5 days consecutively.  It was sweet to watch and listen while they played together.

I enjoyed reading the Value Tale of Johnny Appleseed aloud to Joe during the week at bedtime.  It was a wonderful book.  I learned a lot about John Chapman.  He was such a loving and peaceful man.

  

Here are several more pages the boys completed for their lapjournals.

And, their finished lapjournal pages from this row.  Jack’s:

Here are Joe’s:

 

Can you tell we had so much fun??  It was wonderful watching the boys work side by side completing their pages and activities.  They would encourage and help one another, and compliment one another too.  I feel confident now that having them work together with Five in a Row this year was the right decision.  As I see them bond more, play together more outside of school time and form a friendship I see so many ways Five in a Row is blessing our family just as I had hoped it would.

 

Next we are climbing aboard a train and heading down (or should I say up) the tracks a bit.

 

Inspiration, ideas and printables I used for our Apple Pie row can be found at:

• Five in a Row Volume 1
• Homeschool Share – How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World printables
• Delightful Learning’s How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World awesome row!
• The First Grade Parade – Three Way Apple Math, Just Ripe Seed Count and Roll A Sentence
• Education Cubes from Mama Jenn
• Geography Memory Game
• Story Disks from All of a Kind Family
• Apple Unit from 2 Teaching Mommies
• Itsy Bitsy Learners Apples Preschool Pack
• First Grader at Last – Construction paper parts of an apple diagram
• Evan Moor Great Science Resource Book – Apple Life Cycle printable
• What the Teacher Wants - Johnny Appleseed printable
• Skillet Apple Pie recipe from Southern Living

I am linking this post to:

• Preschool Corner at Homeschool Creations
• Education Cubes Show and Tell