Oh, this book by far has been my favorite row — which is exactly why we took three weeks to complete!  The freedom in homeschooling, yes?

If you haven’t read How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, it’s a gem of a book for young children.  Full of opportunity for great lessons as well.

Here’s what our crew did weeks ago; my preschooler was 38 months, and my 1st grader weeks shy of 7 yrs old.

First, we toured the world!  The book’s premise is in order to make an apple pie, a young girl travels around the globe picking the freshest ingredients from where they grow best.

The boys enjoyed placing items in the correct geographical location as we read the story.

Our fabric map came from Amazon, most figures from our In the Country game from Haba (couldn’t find this, but ebay may have it. We l-o-v-e this farming game!).

In math, we did lots of work with fractions.  Preschool consisted of dividing the apple into pieces and counting parts, and talking about 1/2 or whole apples.

For 1st grade we also include 1/3 and 1/4 fraction practice.  Using our magnetic apples we did simple hands-on problems – how many 1/4s make a half?, etc. 

Of course, there was patterning as well — this seems a staple, fun activity each row!

The amount of printables for apple activities is abundant online!  I’ve listed the ones above on my Pinterest Five in a Row page.

I offered my preschooler to paint ‘apples’ on an apple tree using our do a dot markers.  Halfway through, he said “Mom, this is a little boring.”

O-kay… he used to love this activity — last year.  Come on Mom, I guess he has grown up some! 🙂

Long ago we purchased numerous big books – one on the life cycle of apples worked well for several science lessons, and we used this printable to document our learning.

For my preschooler, this simple and sweet youtube video made the concept stick:

No, it’s not apple pie!  We enjoy apple crisp more, so this was our special snack.

Such fun we had…overall, Apple Pie and See the World was enjoyed so much by both Mom and the boys.  Check out what books we’re rowing this winter 2013 and our other Five in a Row posts!

{free apple clip art from this shop; post linked with Collage Friday & Homeschool Creations}