APPLES 10/18-22

🍎 APPLES 🍎

The Quarter Notes love to eat apples! We've seen quite a few friends eat apples for snack or lunch since school has started. The class taste tested different color apples (Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, and MacIntosh) and recorded their favorite kind on a chart. We also talked about different food we could make from apples (applesauce and pies, etc.).

The children were read a book about the life cycle of an apple (seed, shoot, tree, flowers, fruit repeat).

* Sang, Farmer Brown has Five Green Apples song during circle time. Have your little one sing it to you. It's short and sweet and helps with counting and subtraction. Below are the visuals used to help with counting/subtraction).

The math table used more of these apples to learn counting, patterning, small, medium, large, and more than/less than concepts. Subtraction is pretty abstract at this age. To help the Quarter Notes with the concept, Farmer Brown ate his apples "hungrily" until he had zero apples.

The apples that were used at the Science table were reused for art. The apple halves were dipped into paint and stamped onto paper. You know you're having fun when you get a bit messy! 😂

We read the Dr.Suess/Theo. LeSieg classic, Ten Apples Up On Top. Then the children posed for pictures. After the images were printed, they "balanced" apples on their heads by stamping onto their image. The Quarter Notes looked just like illustrations in the story!

TEN APPLES UP ON TOP! I AM SO GOOD THEY WILL NOT DROP! FIVE, SIX, SEVEN! FUN, FUN, FUN! SEVEN, SIX, FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE!

MANDARIN: Colors. Passed the ball to our friends. Each child said the color of the ball. Then, everyone picked a ball out of a basket and gave it to a friend. Whatever color we were given was the paint color we dipped our finger into. We used our fingers to make a fingerprint leaf on a tree.

NO MUSIC THIS WEEK.

SPORTS: Rainbow strings, kicking a soccer ball into a goal, and the parachute.

🍏🍎 Have a wonderful weekend! 🍎🍏

Alison Dressler Dana Mathews

We used all of our Senses at the Science table. We held the apples with our hands and observed with our eyes and magnifying glasses. We smelled the apples with our nose, and tasted the different types of apples. The children communicated with advanced vocabulary (sweet, sour, etc.). Talking to teachers and peers is a good way to express their thoughts and opinions, as well as gain vocabulary/communication skills.