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Thursday, September 27, 2018

Apple Week ***T/TR Class

Hello! Apple week has been tons of fall fun. We had apple tasting and charted our favorite colors as a class. We painted using apples as "stamps" and we learned a song about 5 Little Apples. The kiddos enjoyed playing with farm animals and pretending to be in an apple orchard. There were even dinosaurs at our apple orchard!

We had oatmeal, cinnamon sticks, and scoops in the touch table. It smelled like apple pie! The kids also enjoyed reading Ten Apples Up on Top and sharing about experiences going apple picking. A few of them said they have been before. We also went over how apples grow from seeds until they are picked from trees.

On Thursday, we made sparkly caramel apples on sticks :) They are hanging in the hall by our door. We also had Stretch-N-Grow today. The kids enjoyed following Coach Natalie on a zoo adventure.

Next week: we will talk all about falling leaves & continue to explore how seasons change.

Friday, September 21, 2018

Colors Week MWF

We explored colors this week in the Lizard classroom. We read the stories: Pete the Cat and His White Shoes, Cat's Colors, and My Many Colored Days. We danced to the song Please Stand Up by Mr. Al. In creative art we used blue and yellow paint and marbles to make the color green. We also used eye droppers and coffee filters to make suncatchers to decorate our windows. Our science experiments were Walking Colors and Rainbow Skittles. We sorted counting Bear's by color and we sorted goldfish by color and then counted them. Our sensory table was full of colored rice. We learned some Spanish color words. Red-rojo Orange-naranja Yellow-amarillo Green-verde Blue-azul Purple-morado
Next week we will be talking all about apples!

Stacking tiny colored chairs is great work for our fine motor skills.

Creating stained glass art

Sorting Counting Bears by color

Colored rice in the sensory table is a new experience.

Using hand-eye coordination to keep the marble from coming out of the box.

Color Week **T/TR Class

Hello Families! First, a huge thanks to all who turned in Flower Power orders today :) These fundraisers help us provide the wonderful, educational materials needed to grow little minds!

Color week was a blast. We played lots of games and sang songs to help us identify colors. We also explored mixing colors using paint at the easel and colored ice cubes. We put yellow/blue cubes in a bowl and watched them melt into green, red/blue cubes melted into purple, and red/yellow cubes melted into orange. We also made our names in rainbow colors and worked on using the glue sticks properly & following 1-2 step directions. We worked on identifying the letters in their names. For now, they aren't putting the letters in order exactly (it is pretty comical!) our main concern is identifying those letters for most kiddos and the fine motor skills using the glue sticks.

We read "Bear sees colors" and "Dog's color day". The kids enjoyed our colorful fruit and veggie science circle Thursday! We made observations about how the food looked/smelled/felt/sounded. Then, we cut open each food (cucumber, green pepper, red pepper, and apples) and looked for seeds and made observations about the inside. We talked about how each one tastes and some friends shared whether they liked those foods or not! :)

Next week -- Apple Week. We will kick off autumn with a week of apple-fun. Some activities may include how apples grow, pretend apple orchard, apple pie sensory bin, & apple tasting!