Apple Week

We a fun week kicking off our fall season with the theme apples!  We learned all about an apple cycle from seed to the apple we pick and eat at the orchard.  We used apples to count, discuss fractions, graph our favorites and even discovered there is a star inside if you cut it horizontally.  Here are some of our cuties in action.

Apple Stamping

We listened to a story called "A Little Red House" where a little boy searched for a house with no windows, no doors but a star inside.  At the end of the story he comes to an apple orchard and our teacher cut the apple in half horizontally to reveal the star inside. We loved this!! 

We enjoyed playing "ring around the apple tree"

Our morning table top centers provide us with a new math, literacy or fine motor skill each day!  We love coming in, finding our  name and discovering the new activity we get to do each day.

We had a birthday this week. Happy birthday friend!

We enjoyed taste testing red, green and yellow apples.  Green was the class favorite!

This graph allowed us to count the most, the least, and how many more each one had compared to the other. :)  We also get practice reading our friend's names.

We hope you enjoyed our apple mosaic picture. They look great hanging in a window.

This group worked as a team to put this puzzle together.  That takes a lot of patience and teamwork.  Way to go friends!

We worked on two skill sheets where we rolled a dice this week.  We had to roll, count the dots, then find the number on our sheet until they were all eliminated.

We look like big kindergartners when we come to the table, listen to directions and know what to do.  Our teacher makes us a skill sheet that includes many of the math and literacy skills for the week so we can show how smart we are!

We are authors and illustrators!  We each made a page for a class book that will travel home with each friend to be read and then returned for another classmate.

Independently, we cut out our chosen favorite apple color, leaf and and stem and then glued them in the appropriate place.

We learned all the parts of an apple and can even tell you which one on the diagram is which! 

 We also added a really neat alphabet to our classroom this week.  Each of us decorated one or two letters for this class alphabet to hang on the wall.  It looks so great and colorful!

*What a fun week learning about apples!  Enjoy your fall break with your family and I will see you in two weeks for our theme firefighters/fire safety. :)