I guess I'm getting old because I am so confused by the changes to the way I post my pictures so that I can't move them into the correct order for my narrative! Also, I got a hand-me-down iPhone and it's easy to use, but it won't sync with my computer. Projects for another day . . .
Last month we took a preschool field trip to pick apples and make our own apple pies. It was following a lesson on seeds and apples. Here are some pictures, out of order.
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| Sam with his completed apple pie. |
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| Some of the kids hoping we would finally let them eat their pies. We had to wait an hour while they cooked. During that hour we looked at Imus. I don't know why they have them at the apple farm, but it made for something interesting to look at while we waited! |
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| All tired out in their orange shirts so I could easily spot them in the apple orchard! Anna wouldn't stay in the stroller but these two were ready for a break! |
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| Anna wanted to pick some apples of her own and got herself covered in dust. She was a good sport to stay busy while the big kids make their pies. |
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| Here's Michael making his own apple pie. I think it had one apple in it and about 4 cups of sugar and cinnamon. |
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| The apple haul. They got to pick them off the trees themselves but they were small and unripe Golden Delicious apples. I guess we should have come back another time to get a big bushel of ripe ones but it was an hour's drive and the apples were cheaper at my grocery store! At least the kids got to see where apples come from. |
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| Here's Sam using the apple peeler before making his pie. The women working there were sweet and walked them through the whole process. |
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I keep forgetting to take pictures of my dance classes. They are so busy that I can't stop to take a picture. Maybe next time. It's a lot of fun, though. Last week I read them the story of "Swan Lake." Then we danced to some of the music from that ballet and pretended to be swans. I was amazed how excited they were to do our regular exercises once I had disguised them as something a swan would do. Teaching young children seems to hard for me because I'm not a creative thinker but I am learning what they like to do and how to motivate them to cooperate. They have learned so much in the last seven weeks. They're incorporating a lot of what I've taught them into their free-time dance at the end of the lessons and it's so fun to see them understand something and enjoy doing it. We're learning a dance to the theme song from "Tangled" that they're going to show their moms in a couple of weeks. They can't wait to show off what they've learned to their moms! It should be a fun day.
Now, on to Halloween!
