Home teaching - The Apple Pie Tree

The Apple Pie Tree narrates the growth of apple tree through the 4 seasons of a year through a pair of girls.  Their parents made apple pie with the apples they grow.   On the last page of the book, there is recipe of apple pie and also brief on how bees pollinate flowers.

 

Most of our lapbook materials were taken from http://www.homeschoolshare.com/apple_pie_tree.php

Our lapbook cover is a puzzle.   A lot of help needed for Png Png to complete the puzzle.

The anatomy of flower

Different ways of consuming apples

Craft of apple tree in the 4 seasons.   Png Png painted a piece of A4 size paper brown.  I cut the tree trunk and he cut some branches to glue on the tree trunk.   For spring, we use pink cotton bud to signify apple flowers; for summer, we use the stamp marker from Ikea to signify leaves; for autumn, Png Png finger print the big red apples ready for picking.

Apple patterns.   Png Png drew the correct answer on the last box

Life cycle of an apple

Png Png listed the ingredients for making apple pie.

 

Antonyms

Songs and poems on apple

Png Png drew and colored number of apples as indicated

This is the first time I baked apple pie.   Apple pie before baking

My boys love to eat the apple pie I baked.

I also baked apple brown betty oatmeal.  I prefer to bake this as it is simplier and taste better