Apples, Apples, Apples

 

Last week our theme was apples. We did SO many fun apple activities, and our classes smelled great all week. :) Our class guinea pig was pretty oinky with all the apples around, too. He is such an piggy when it comes to fruit and it made the peas giggle all week to hear how loud and demanding he was when he saw an apple! Here's a peek into our week, and if you can believe it, this isn't even everything we did!

 

We started with this simple apple book:

 Pre-K 1 made the seasons of the apple tree in art, using little arms as trees. So sweet!

Both our classes have journals we use weekly, and then the journals are sent home at the end of the year. Pre-K 2 drew apples in their journals this week.



I love watching how their writing and drawing evolves as the year progresses.

Below shows us making apple pie playdough, which was a pinterest fail! It smelled great and was so fun to play with the first day, but the second day it was super sticky and wet. Of course I still let them play with it, because where else are you going to have fun getting messy besides in Pre-K?

On Wednesday everyone brought an apple to school.

Ms. Rhonda made this really clever graph in Pre-K 2 out of a shower curtain. Love it!

 As a group activity they graphed all the apples they brought to school. 

Pre-K 1 sliced up a few of our apples and stamped with them.

For morning message, we examined an apple and then labeled one together.

Then both classes made really yummy apple treats. Pre-K 2 made apple pies using cresent dough. They smelled SO good.

We had the apple peeler/corer/slicer which is a pretty amazing invention. The kids loved helping get the apples ready.



Pre-K 1 made applesauce in the crockpot.

We had our applesauce with ice cream. It was so yummy!

We also learned some super cute apple poems and songs. Pre-K 1 made these apple trees to go with our poem.

Pre-K 2 learned this cute song.

Ms. Rhonda did this adorable activity with the Pre-K 2 class. They measured how many apples tall they were.

Everyone was close to the same height!

During centers Pre-K 2 added beads to pipe cleaners with number tags on them. This was a great activity for number recognition and rote counting.

Pre-K 1 counted apples onto apple trees.

In math, each group guessed how many seeds their apple had, then Ms. Angela cut the apple open and they counted and recorded the number of seeds.

We tore paper for fine motor and glued it on apple trees. Those are some pretty big apples! :)

After reading this favorite:

 Pre-K 1 made these:

They thought these were really funny and they turned out super cute.

We added some worms and apple colored tools to cinnamon flavored oatmeal for some sensory fun.

We also worked on our handwriting, and the peas are off to a great start in their handwriting books! 

And on Thursday, my mom came to visit! She lives in Victoria, Texas and always visits my class each year to meet my new group of kids and play. She loves this age group, and the kids loved meeting her. Thanks for visiting Mom!

It was a successful week and we had lots of fun. Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!