All About Apples!

We had a great first week of fall.  We spent our week learning more about apples and using apples as a theme for our learning.  Monday we finished learning how to write all of our numbers 1-10.  We read a book called "Ten Apples Up on Top" and then put 10 apples up on top of our heads!  The kids thought I was crazy when I told them what they were going to do...until I showed them it was all going to be on paper.  :)  First, they drew their own heads using colors and details that made sense and then they glued 10 apples on top and labeled them with numbers.

We put them up in the hallway, so check them out and find your child's artwork if you are in the school!

We also learned how to spell the word "apple" with a fun song.  The students enjoyed taking turns holding our apples up front!

One of the types of writing we will be practicing this year is informational writing.  The kids got to write 6 words about apples.  They all got a special writer's rubber band to help them stretch out the words.  The room was full of 25 little voices slowly saying words to listen for sounds.  Music to this teacher's ears!  :)

We played a fun apple alphabet game where we passed an apple around and sang a little song.  When the song stopped, if you had the apple, then you got to pick up an apple off the floor and say the letter it had written on it and the sound it makes.

We also practiced counting 1-10 by making fingerprint apples!

The kids are really enjoying math time.  We have been playing fun games and the kids love working with their friends around the room.

We also learned that reading goes top to bottom, left to right.  We practiced how to go to the next line after coming to the end of a line, (return sweep).  And we worked on our one-to-one pointing.  We used googly eyes on popsicle sticks and it was so much fun to read while singing along with our letter song!

This week we talked about letters versus words.  We each got to be one letter of the alphabet and stood all by ourselves.  We learned that when we are all alone, we are a letter.  Then we got to connect with some of our friends to make a word!

Olivia was our star student this week.  She got to tell us about her special doll and doll clothes that her late grammy made for her.

And Mr. Austin turned 6!  Happy birthday and thanks for the suckers!  :)