Theme: Blueberries
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Trays:
These tray activities were a huge hit! The tennis in particular:
The smashing of the blueberries was ,well, a smashing success (sorry, couldn’t help myself!). I had attached a silicone cupcake holder to a wooden building block to give the little girls a small enough tool for smashing, and smash they did:
We then added sugar to the juice and sugar and pectin to the fruit, boiled both up and made some blueberry syrup and jam:
The last tray was a sorting exercise and even B2 did it fairly well. They needed to separate the blueberries (blue water beads) from their leaves (green water beads):
I covered some tiny pots in foil and added gaffa tape silver handles to make some pails, whilst T11 went and hid all the glass beads in our front garden. The girls then went blueberry picking with their pails:
They did a bit of colouring in, from photocopies of pictures in the book:
And finally the tiddly winks, which A4 requested to play during her quiet time. She loved them!
Muffin Tin meal
We used the syrup we made to make a drink; blueberry pancakes held together with a tooth pick and 3 blueberries; homemade blueberry jam; natural yogurt mixed with the jam; and plain blueberries:
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Snacks
- Blueberry fruit salad and natural yogurt
- Blueberry muffins
- Homemade blueberry ice cream: simply frozen blueberries whizzed up with yogurt.
- Bread roll, brie and some delicious blueberry relish:
- We made up some lemonade with some stray lemons and then smashed some blueberries, drained the juice off and boiled it up with some sugar to make a syrup:
Homemade blue berry syrup diluted with homemade lemonade
Printables
http://homeschoolcreations.com/BlueberriesforSalPrintables.html
http://school.familyeducation.com/reading-instruction/resource/30300.html
http://pinterest.com/sandyfsw/blueberries-for-sal/
http://delightfullearning.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/blueberries-for-sal.html
This was one of our more simple rows, yet it was such a quaint book that we all really enjoyed ourselves!
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Cool. Can I get one of those muffin tins for work? Who won the race? Hope T11 didn’t cheat!!
Mummy will make you one and I’ll help!
Love you daddy.
I am including you in a must follow homeschool blogs post and was hoping you had a button I could use next to the info about your blog. If you do, could you just email it to me 123homeschool4me(at)gmail.com.
Thanks!
Beth =)
Thanks Beth, I’m honoured!
I just made one, hopefully it works, it’s in the (e)mail!
I love this story, and all those yummy treats you’ve made! Blueberry muffins and ice cream remain our favourite for the longest time. I also like how you’ve transformed the traditional egg-and-spoon race. Very creative indeed! When we did it, we went blackberry picking instead since there are no wild blueberries where we are.
Thanks Hwee. It didn’t seem as involved this week, but we did do lots in the kitchen!
Smashing blueberries looks like so much fun!!
It really was! Thanks for visiting!
I want to come and play in your school. You always make me smile….or cry. xxxxxxx
Ooooh, please come to our school, Granny, perleeeease?
Wow you found a lot of berry books. Blueberries are one of the main crops in Western Michigan where I grew up. July and August are great months for fresh blueberries.
Thank you
I love the balloon race, that would be so much fun.
The water beads idea is BRILLIANT!
I’m quite a fan of those water beads. Cheap, but really versatile.
Wow! So many fun blueberry extensions! What fun everyone had!
Thanks Keitha!
Wow, what an awesome week! I love all the creative activities. I’ve been looking into doing BFIAR with my oldest and will definitely be pinning this post to my Blueberries For Sal board for future reference.
You’ll have such great fun with BFIAR! It is a great curriculum!
Great activities and MTM lunch. So cool!
Thank you!
I love this blueberry themed MTM! Great idea with the blueberries on top of the pancakes held with toothpicks!!
Thank you! It was a simple and fun one to put together, not to mention very tasty!
What a very berry tin! Looks yummy. I, too, like the blueberry picks.
Thank you!
Just saw your comment over at Mamabelly’s – I can’t find bento equipment where I live, either (Western Australia). But I have found it’s worth getting online and buying something from Japan, Hong Kong or Vietnam. Their shipping charges are often reasonable, and many of the items are very reasonably priced as well. eBay is your friend here! :o)
I’ll do that! Thank you so much for taking the trouble to suggest it!
I’ve really missed the Muffin Tin Monday theme — so I’m trying to visit others and see if we can bring some Muffin Tin Moments and gather together and share ideas. I have a link-up and button on my blog and hope that you will join us! Love the FIAR tie-in with this muffin tin 🙂
Happy Homeschooling!
~addelah
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