Fall mini-unit

Here are a few pictures of the process of our print-making fall art activity.

Sorry--these are in the wrong order!

Michael is using the bunched up plastic bag dipped in paint to make his leaves.

Tyler and Kobyn using dried corn husks to make the trees.

Harold is making his leaves.

We had a fun day! We also learned a poem about fall and talked about the signs of fall--cooler weather, pumpkins and apples, leaves falling, etc...

Fun week!

Grandparent's Day!

Here are some of the darling pictures I took at our Grandparent's/ Special Person Day! It was a lot of fun! I love these pictures! I only heard from one parent that wanted me to email the picture as well as print it--anyone else? Email me.

Thanks to all our special people for coming. Several of the grandparents traveled several hours to come and spend the day with us, and lots of others took time off of work to come. Thank you for spending the day with us and for sharing your wonderful children/grandchildren with me!

Apples!

We had a fun week talking about the letter Aa and apples. I'm not sure why, but calling something a "party" instantly makes it more fun. Today we talked about the sound for a and painted apples. I can't remember where I saw this idea, but I liked it. The students enjoyed painting their apples and thought it was hilarious when I pretended to take a bite out of the plate.

We talked about the life cycle of an apple (seed, seedling, tree, bud, flower, fruit, seed) and sang a song about a little apple seed. We cut open apples and saw the seeds. We did a taste test with a red apple and a green apple. We made a chart, and red apples were preferred in both classes. Then we each took our apples and we compared the sizes of our apples using our vocabulary words: bigger and smaller.

I cut up each person's apple and put it on a plate along with a spoonful of peanut butter and a spoonful of caramel dip. They seemed to really like this snack. We made a chart after we ate and the caramel dip was a little more popular, but not by much! Thanks for all the donations of apples. It was a fun day!

A few pictures:
(Sorry these first ones are only of morning class. I forgot to take pictures of this in the afternoon!)

Our bulletin board this week:

Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom!

Here is a picture of the bulletin board of Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom! It is a fantastic book and the students seemed to really enjoy it. We painted the trees on Tuesday, then on Thursday the students cut out the letters and glued them on their coconut tree.