We took a trip to Skytop Orchards and filled many baskets with apples.
Here we go to the apple orchard, the apple orchard, the apple orchard.
Here we go to the apple orchard, so early in the morning!
This is how we pick the apples…
We then peeled and cut and cored the apples with our fun little machine. The children loved this job!
This is how we peel the apples…
The apples were then cooked in a huge pot and mashed up using another fun tool!
This is how we mash the apples…
After mashing the apples, we cooked them again, added some yummy spices and–voila!–apple butter to take home!
We painted with yellow watercolors for the first part of fall and then painted with red.
We love collecting eggs from our chickens!
We spent one afternoon collecting signs of autumn (fallen leaves, berries, flowering plants, etc). The children were each given a flag and a hammering tool and went to work hammering the “signs of autumn” onto their flag. The end result was gorgeous!
The table was covered with beautiful items from nature.
For our lantern walk this year, we made beeswax lanterns. The children loved watching them grow thicker and thicker. They each picked a leaf to press and then place on their lantern.
Scott’s artwork awaits the children each morning. They are usually a sign of the story to come! This week: Squirrel Nutkin.
The children made acorn necklaces. The first step was the wet felt a small ball.
We re-enacted our winter spiral story in the schoolhouse. This was practice for the large community-wide Spiral of Light.
