A Is For Apple

This week we learned all about the letter A and what better way to learn all about it than to learn about APPLES and the letter A! 

We started off the week by being scientist and discovering all about Red Green and Yellow apples. We looked at their color, how they felt, how many seeds each apple contained, and then we tasted each color apple and graphed which one was our favorite.

After learning all about apple trees each student created their very own apple tree. The only direction given was they had to use their fingers to create their trees. Each student worked on tearing pieces to build their own unique trees and then they used their fingers to create the red apples.

We learned about how apple trees grow from seed to growing apples. After we learned each stage the students worked on putting them in the correct order.

Each week we work in our Handwriting Without Tears workbooks to practice writing our letters and this week we worked on the letter A.

For jobs this week we made and Alligator A

An apple a

We worked on putting the numbers 1-10 in order on the trunks of our apple trees and then we counted the apples on each tree top and placed them on the correct trunk.

We sorted and matched colors

Finally on Friday we celebrated our big apple week with an Apple Extravaganza. Sadly we had too much fun to snap any picture, but trust me when I tell you everyone enjoyed our feast!

Apple Extravaganza!

Last week we learned all about one of my favorite fruits! Juicy Delicious Apples! We learned that apples grow from seeds that grow into trees that grow apples. 

To start off Apple Week we had an Apple Tasting. Each student got a tiny bite of a red, green, and yellow apple. After tasting each student got a blank apple that they colored in with the color of the one they liked the best. Then we graphed the apples to see which one had the most and the least apples. 

After we finished out tasting and graphing we all worked on  an Apple Glyph. 

Look at that beautiful cutting! I am so proud of all of my friends and how hard they have been working. 

Wednesday we worked on our lowercase a apples. 

Thursday we worked on our fine motor skills by creating our very own apple trees by ripping different colors of paper 

During Job time we completed several fun activities mainly concentrating on number recognition, counting, and. One to one correspondence (counting a group if objects and matching the correct number to the set. 

We made Alligator Uppercase A's

We matched the apple tree tops with apples to the trunk with the matching number. 

We counted apple seeds and matched the other half of the apple with the correct number. 

We rolled a dice with the numbers 1-6 and colored in the matching apple in the apple tree.

Last but not least I wanted to do another assessment and had the students sort colors. 

To commemorate such a fun week we threw an Apple Extravaganza and tasted all kinds of Apple products We had apple juice, apple pie, apple cereal bars, fresh apples dipped in caramel, apple butter on biscuits, apple sauce, and dried apple chips. Everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves and they keep asking me each week when we will have another Apple Party.