Apple Week

We had a busy week studying about apples and Johnny Appleseed.

We started with a graph from Shannon Martin's kinder-pond blog.

We are finishing our unit in math on patterns, so it was great to find many resources.
This is also from Shannon Martin and Kindergarten Hoppenings.

Painting with pencil erasers.

We did a pocket chart activity and this follow up lesson on sorting letters and words.

Love this darling poem from Deanna Jump and the TLC like art.

Patterning book from Fran Kramer.

Kids loved this chip activity finding letters.

Another great math activity from Shannon Martin's apple unit.

Our September quilt squares. 

Activity to go along with the book, Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree.

On Johnny Appleseed day, we tasted different kinds of apples and wrote a chart story.
I'm hoping we'll have fall weather soon!  I'm heading to Oak Glen to pick some apples.

Johnny Appleseed Day!

Arabella with her Johnny Appleseed pot hat and bag filled with seeds to plant.





Ava




Mathew



Sydney

Class picture in front of our office.



We planted grass seeds out on the playground.  Sprinkling them as we walked.



Planting seeds like Johnny.

Meghan

Collin

Jaxson

Jake

Stella




Emily



Ezekiel

Michael

Chloe

Ethan

Rachel

Robert

Noah N.

Leilani

Jahaan

Jaden

Sophia

Hannah

Tala

Nolan

Lilly

Shylea

Noah M.

Brooke

Pasha

          

Bears, Bears, Bears

We had a very fun, exciting week learning about bears!  We listened to many stories, sang songs, wrote stories and did bear activities in all of our centers.  Here's a peek at the week.

Our first circle thinking map about bears.  Wow! We know a lot about bears.  The kids wrote some wonderful stories in their journals this week.  We also used a tree thinking map for  writing.

Our pocket chart story about colors and gummy bears.

Megan volunteered to be labeled!!!  We had fun and giggled at all the labels on Meghan.

Our follow up activity on labeling.  We will try to do more labeling in our writing journals.

Bear hats.

Our class picture on Teddy Bear Day!

Graphing our favorite teddy graham.

Singing and moving to the Teddy Bear song.

Completing our teddy bear exploration.  Measuring our bears.

Counting gummy bears in the jars and recording our answers.

I just love seeing the kids reading on their own.  This was reading to your Teddy center.

The bears are playing in the play house.

Our teddy bear picnic.  We sorted honey combs, fish crackers and teddy grahams.
It was a yummy bear snack.

Just had to buy the new Karma Wilson Bear book!  We read several of her books this week.

Brooke brought a huge teddy bear to share. Everyone had their picture taken with the big bear.

Arabella

Chloe

Hannah

Ethan

Jaxson