How to Make Apple Pie and See the World

As an introduction to our trip around the world with Build Your Library:

we read 

While we read it, the kids snacked on apples from our tree. We also found each location/ingredient on the world map in our giant atlas. Then Ellie drew each ingredient and labeled them so we could pin them to our wall map. 

Science tie-in: 

A few days later, we read the book again and did an apple taste test of each of every kind of apples the grocery store had: 

Math tie in: 

Ellie made charts for rating the taste of each apple on a scale from 1-10 

• American folk tale tie-in: 

While snacking on each of our favorite apples, we watched the Johnny Appleseed chapter from Disney's American Legends

Science and Math:

A few days later, we examined apples, (found the magic star!)

and made an apple pie! 

For fun, we used this water bottle egg separating trick 

While waiting for it to bake, we did some Parts of an Apple worksheets I found on google.


Ellie's was writing the answers (above) and Penny's was a cut/paste match activity of the same sort. 

Then a few days later, I found this great book at a bookstore:
Life and Times of an Apple

Which has some great images and explanations of how apples grow.

I also looked all over because I thought we had a copy of Ten Apples Up On Top  but could not find it for a few days. We had fun with that book at the park too! 


This was a great introduction to our curriculum this year, and perfect timing to do this in the fall!