Tue 13 Nov 2007
Since we picked a peck or more of apples last Friday and I have no desire to can anything, I’ve been trying find some good recipes. In this month’s Rachael Ray Magazine there is a recipe for Caramel Apple Layer Cake…I made it yesterday and it is absolutely delicious. My sister, Honey, came over yesterday and offered me $20 for the cake but after a few bites upped it to $50…and I think she was halfway serious. *smile* Click on the photo to get the recipe.
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To take advantage of the abundance of apples in the house, Quinn and I will do a little theme study on apples, again. *smile* He won’t eat a raw apple but thankfully applesauce is one of the few foods he enjoys. I’m going to set him up to the table with some peeled apples, his knife, a cutting board and I’m going to try to coax him into cutting the apples in small pieces for applesauce. For more ideas…
Alphabet Soup - Apple Activities
I made a little apple-shaped book on the computer and printed it out in yellow, red and green cardstock. On one page we’ll do the “use your five senses,” on another write (and learn) an apple fingerplay poem and on the last page, since we have some apples with the leaves still attached, we’ll draw (well I’ll draw) the cross-section of an apple and label/talk about the fruit, stem, leaf and seeds. You can find apple printables here, here and here.
The twins have been diligently working toward trying to finish up their Calvert school work by the end of December so they can start 7th grade in the new year (we homeschool year round so our new year always starts in the actual new year and not in September). It’s been awhile since I’ve given them anything really fun to do and since they did such a wonderful job on their Thanksgiving lapbooks last year, I think we’ll do a Christmas lapbook this year.
