This week was full of fun and learning. We studied apples all week, one of my favorite themes during the year. It gives me that exciting feeling of a new year starting, and it reminds me of the fact that as hard as Texas is trying to convince us otherwise, fall will be here before we know it. Also, we always finish up with a yummy recipe, so I love that, too! This year we kicked off our unit by discussing describing words. After reading several apple books, we brainstormed some words that describe apples.
One of the books we really enjoyed was:
It led to an in depth discussion about apple varieties. We tasted five different varieties and decided which were our favorites. In the sensory table we added red, yellow and green balls and measuring worms. I also added some cinnamon to make it smell nice. :)
We continued with our daily work, this week we added an apple ten frame to assess rote counting to 10. Everyone did a great job!
Pre-K 1's first craft was apple cores and it was an independent project from beginning to end. I love independent projects, they always reveal a lot about the peas personalities. It also shows how well they can follow multi-step instructions.
They get so much great learning: fine motor, creativity, critical thinking skills, counting (the seeds), and so on.
Here's the completed works!
Pre-K 2 made some apple trees for their first art project. They did a lot of cutting!
They made their trees and added a sweet little poem.
Next, both classes did some apple painting.
They traced and painted three apples by themselves.
Both classes did some table work. Pre-K 2 did a roll an apple activity.
We sequenced the life of an apple.
Pre-K 2 did some apple patterning.
This week was letter B, so Pre-K 2 journaled letter B and drew things that begin with B. I adore Pre-K writing.
We continued with our handwriting.
Pre-K 1 brought apples to school, and we graphed what color everyone brought!
We also made our first class book in Pre-K 1. Crooked picture, sorry!
Are these precious or what?
Next, we weighed apples with cubes.
The peas went around in a circle adding a block at a time until we balanced the scale. It took 30 cubes!
Next we decided to see how long our apples would be if we laid them out in a line.
They were longer than our leader of the day!
To end the week we read this:
Then we made mini apple pies!
I have the peeler/corer/slicer from Pampered Chef and this is one of the coolest contraptions around. And it's pretty fun to use! The peas cranked the handle for me.
After peeling, coring and slicing we added some sugar and cinnamon to the apples. Um, YUM.
Sadly, my apple pie picture is very blurry, but I couldn't help but add it because how sweet are these tiny apple pies?! Here's the recipe if you are interested in making some at home!
So we ended the week with apples pies after lunch with a little ice cream on the side. Because what's apple pie without a little ice cream?
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Get your peg legs and parrots ready because next week we will be doing literacy, math and art pirate style!
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