APPLE WEEK

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                                       APPLES
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                           This was an exciting week!!!! 

Every lesson, activity, and game was with apples. I was also able to include a lot of small motor as you will see in the photos. I would have to say for many of your children this was the week that I really seen a change. Handwriting is developing and recognition of letters and numbers is improving.

I hope you enjoy the photos that i have picked for you.... 

I have not used writing worksheets this year. Its all been writing in sand, and shaving cream. I also let them copy words. During circle time we talk about the words the letters and the sound the letter makes and how to form the letters using shapes and a wipe off board.

It is amazing how much faster they are writing compared to years past.

Here we are working on number recognition. Each number has dots... the child counts the dots to know what number it is. This is called touch math. It is fun and they are learning without even knowing it.

This is a math game I use often. I just make it match the theme each week. The children roll the dice and take as many as the dice is. Each child gets 5 rolls and the winner has the most. It isn't just for counting, It also touches on distribution and more/ less than

This activity really worked the hand muscles. First they had to squeeze 10x then pick up each apple only using 1 hand.

                  Writing Apple in red shaving cream... All the students were forming the letters correctly

                  Making apple pies with cinnamon scented play dough...using tools to make the pies
During this activity we talked about what sense we were using...smell, sight, and touch

matching numbers 1-10

Reading apple stories... The 2 main books that I used this year were Growing an Apple Pie Tree and Ten Apples Up On Top. Most of the activities that I had were extensions of these 2 stories.

                                                       Making apple print art

                                                        We measured and weighed the apples.

                                                         Investigated the inside of the apples

                       Apple sequencing... this actually seemed difficult for many of the students.

                                                   We sorted red, yellow, and green pom poms

                      10 apples on top...Children rolled balls of red playdough to recreate the story.

We stacked the apples... the most was 4 apples

                                    Using red and green stamp pads we made apple patterns