October Study: Apples + Pumpkins We finished our first month of school and let ourselves 'fall' right into learning about all things apples and pumpkins. We started with a two week study on apples. We knew that all the kids had tried apples, but as I said in a post or two ago, our goal is to go deeper into our studies and find out more about how and where they go, what they look like on the inside and why, and how we can use apples. Each day our question of the day revolved around something related to apples. Additionally, after morning meeting, we would look at a different fact or feature about apples. We did an apple investigation where we started by describing the outside of the apple (texture, shape, size), measured it with unifix cubes, cut it open to describe the inside of the apple, and counted how many seeds were inside. The children loved when I called them 'scientists' and they were so excited to explore such a simple food that they are so used to seeing. T...